Half-Moon is part of I Knit San Francisco
Print copies available from One More Row Press

I distinctly remember discovering Love Fest Fibers at West Coast Craft (a great SF market filled with local creatives selling their wares) a couple years ago. I was immediately smitten with the yarn, the process, the story—and, of course, the lovely people behind the company. I couldn’t resist a few balls of Tough Love Tiny, and they lived, as decoration, in my workspace until finally one day, I decided what to do with them. I wanted to knit a rug and played around with the design—constantly simplifying because the yarn is a bit of a challenge to knit with! I finally came up with a deceptively simple-to-knit half moon (or gibbous) shape, and the tassels added the perfect fun finish. My original rug lives by my bedside, and I adore that the first thing my feet touch every morning is this gorgeous wool with such a wonderful story—the perfect way to start every day.

Size
One Size

Finished Measurements
Length: 32 inches/81 cm
Depth: 16 ½ inches/42 cm excluding tassels

Materials

• Rug: Love Fest Fibers Tough Love Tiny (100% New Zealand Wool; Jumbo weight: 25 yd/23 m per 7–9 oz/200–255 g ball); color: Maize; 4 balls
• Tassels: Cascade Ecological Wool (100% Natural Peruvian Wool; Worsted weight: 478 yd/437 m per 8.82 oz/250 g skein); Color: 8095 Ebony; 1 skein (or worsted/aran weight yarn of your choice)
• US 35/19 mm needles for working flat
• Loome Slingshot XL tool (or a 3½-inch/9-cm wide card); DMC Embroidery Floss, color: dark brown (or color to match tassels) to attach tassels to rug; tapestry needle

Gauge
4 sts x 8 rows = 4 inches/10 cm in Garter stitch

This design is part of the I Knit San Francisco collection.
Print copies available from One More Row Press

From the Ferry Building to the Castro, take a knitting whirl through San Francisco. We introduce you to ten Bay Area knitwear designers, visit a dozen Bay Area LYSes, and share our favorite bits of the City by the Bay.

Want to know where to find the San Francisco that the locals know and love? I Knit San Francisco shares shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, museums, and more. And if you can’t make it to the City by the Bay, we include lists of our favorite books, movies, TV shows, and songs, so you can bring San Francisco home.

Designers include

• Kelly White/Kelly White Designs
• Sloane Rosenthal/Hudson + West Co.
• Faina Goberstein
• Yvonne Poon/Gamer Babe Knits
• Julie Weisenberger/Cocoknits
• Audry Nicklin
• Heatherly Walker/Yarn Yenta
• Sonya Philip/100 Acts of Sewing
• Juliana Lustenader
• Kathleen Dames & Vilasinee Bunnag/The Loome

Plus visit a dozen Bay Area yarn shops with Kathleen Dames/kathleen dames knitwear design and Alice O’Reilly/Backyard Fiberworks.

Featured yarns include Bay Street Yarns, The Dye Project, Hudson + West Co., Little Skein in the Big Wool with help from Seismic Yarns, Love Fest Fibers, Sincere Sheep, Speckled Finch Studios, Twirl Yarn, A Verb for Keeping Warm

Shot on location in San Francisco by local photographer Alli Novak/Luzography. Illustrations by Laurel Johnson/Mountain Laurel Artwork.

Join One More Row Press on our Knit Like A Local™ adventure in San Francisco.