Book Launch

A Knitting Adventure with South African Yarn
'n Brei-avontuur met Suid Afrikaanse wol

It's all done now, writing, knitting, photos, layout, proof reading, printing ... and today I got the first copies of my book. It is beautiful, it far exceeds all my expectations - I love it! While I was working on this book I soon realised that even though it is my name on the cover, a book takes many more than one person to put it all together. I want to give everyone who was involved my heart felt thanks - it could not have happened without you.

A Knitting Adventure - with South African Yarn will be launched at Spin Knits at the Red Shed V&A Waterfront on the morning of the 28th May 2011 at 10am. Many of the yarn makers will be there and it promises to be a lovely morning out. If you're in Cape Town, please come and join us.

The Durban launch will be hosted by Liz at Wool n Weave in Hillcrest at 9:30am on the 4th June 2011. If you're in Durban, we would love you to join us there.

The Jo'burg launch still needs to be confirmed and I'll post the details here as soon as it is.

Happy knitting :)

Conversions

Today I had a comment on my Rosy Cotton Top from Sal, who wished that I had the measurements in American standard as well as metric. So here are the conversions are as they appear in my book.

                                                                    Knitting Needle Sizes

US	UK	Metric
0	14	2
1	-	2.25
-	13	2.5
2	12	2.75
-	11	3
3	10	3.25
4	-	3.5
5	9	3.75
6	8	4
-	-	4.25
7	7	4.5
8	6	5
9	5	5.5
10	4	6
10.5	3	6.5
-	2	7
-	1	7.5
11	0	8
13	00	9
15	000	10
17	-	12

Metric / Imperial Measurements

Length

100 centimetres (cm) = 1 meter (m)

36 inches (“) = 1 yard (yd)

To convert:

Centimetres to inches – multiply by 0.3937

Inches to centimetres – multiply by 2.54

Metres to yards – multiply by 1.0936

Yards to metres – multiply by 0.9144

Weight

1 gram (g) = 0.0353 ounces (oz)

50 grams = 1¾ ounces

100 grams = 3½ onces

1 ounce (oz) = 28.35 grams (g)

4 ounces = 114 grams

I've also added a universal converter to my blog - find it in the right hand column.

Thank you Sal for your comment, I'm sure these will be of help to everyone.

Happy Knitting!

 

A Knitting Adventure with South African Yarn

Leave all your cares behind and embark on a wonderful adventure across our beautiful, wild, diverse, colourful country, South Africa, to find 22 accomplished yarn makers who will tell you their tales and with their yarn, tempt you to explore different knitting techniques to turn the 40 projects in this book into infinite possibilities.

A book for both new knitters and old, who, each time they pick up their needles, venture forth on a journey – some long, some short but all filled with the creative spirit that makes each destination their own.

 

The Book is done!! :) It goes to print next week. Pre order a signed copy of  "A Knitting Adventure - with South African Yarn" or " 'n Brei Avontuur - met Suid-Afrikaanse Wol" from http://www.colourspun.com/ for delivery in May 2011.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible and to everyone who takes it along on their own knitting adventure.

With lots of love  Dana