The Secret Language of Knitting: A Knitting Dictionary—The Letter C
A Knitting Dictionary—The Letter C is the another in a series of posts that will eventually make...
A Knitting Dictionary—The Letter C is the another in a series of posts that will eventually make...
Why you want to weigh your yarn. How to weigh your yarn. How to find the perfect yarn scale. Plus, why you need coins in your knitting kit.
A Knitting Dictionary—The Letter B is the second in a series of posts that will eventually make up...
Trying to find out what a knitting term means? Check out the online knitting dictionary with A to Z answers to “what does this mean?”
As more and more jurisdictions close all physical non-essential businesses due to Covid-19,...
A Knitting Dictionary—The Letter A is the first in a series of posts that will eventually make up...
It is the holiday season! And no matter what holidays you celebrate or don’t celebrate, you cannot...
When I first met Sultan Alrasheed, founder of the Fiber Community Fund and by met, I mean on Zoom,...
You see a gorgeous pattern, a lovely model rocking the gorgeous knitwear. You click download and...
You want something warm and snuggly. You want something elegant too. AND you don’t want to...
This beautiful drapey yarn deserved something special. When I had originally looked at the...
This design for this wrap started with the yarn as do so many designs. My delightful introduction...
See who the superheroes of the knit designer and of you. Faster than a slowish knitter. More powerful that typos and errors. Able to ensure accuracy in a single bound. Look! In the knitting chair! It’s a knitter! It’s a hero! It’s . . . read on to find out.
Stop doing things that drain the joy out of knitting. The less we do of these, the more joyful our...
This shawl is not a Shetland shawl.
This shawl does not use any mosaic knitting in it
I know, I know.
Why the heck did I call it Shetland Mosaic . . .
Your gaze sweeps the stark landscape of the Shetland Islands. Beautiful, small Shetland sheep dot the fields, grazing. Being a knitter, instead of sheep, your eyes see potential shawls.
Imagine pulling a whole shawl through an average woman’s wedding ring. Imagine intricate lace unfurling as the shawl is released from the constriction of the ring.
Learn to do the centred double decrease on the purl side row with 4 variations!
Look what I got! Yes, this is Pretty Strings’ amazing yarn advent calendar. When Karin, the...
Have you ever wondered how your yarn feels? Or perhaps what it gets up to when you are looking? Here is a glimpse into one of the possibilities.
A tutorial for a super-stretchy cast on. It is easy to do, strong and sleek (includes description,...
OK, the title of this post sounds like a directive to knit this Mod Squares Blanket...
Weave in the yarn ends as you work to save time and sanity!
This two color bind off finishes off a project that has icord edging sides beautifully!...
See how to go from a marled, two strand garter stitch background into double knit sections and...
I am thrilled to announce that the Grasker Hat is live on Raverly. That’s right, you can go to...
In my last post I wrote about the amazing test knitters that helped to make the Grasker Hat...
We all know that knitters in general are amazing people. Almost all the knitters I know are so...
Summer is a wonderful time to knit with thinner, cooler yarns. I love knitting with fine lace...
This video shows how to do the long tail cast on. First is a very quick refresher for those who...
Yarn comes in an almost infinite variety and making yarn choices can be overwhelming, especially...
Knitting needles come in a variety of types, sizes and materials. Remember that knitting usually...
Over the last year or so, I have become interested in random lace, that is lace knitted without a...
Today, I finished labelling and sorting the 50 scarves for the staff at the retirement home that...
Here is the second in the one row lace series of scarf “patterns”. This a basic...
This is the first of a series of super easy lace scarf patterns. Well, the word pattern is a bit...
December is a time of frantic gift knitting, at least for many of us! During the first part of...
Recently, I purchased some square cross-section needles and I love them. There are two brands...
Cut a 6 inch (15 cm) piece of heavy card. Wrap the yarn around the card. Slip the wound yarn off...
It is that time of year when we have or are in the midst of buying and making gifts for everyone on our list. Then, we take a deep breath of satisfaction for having bought them all, and the wrapping panic begins! Personally, I...
Creating yarn from old t-shirts is a great way to give new life to old clothes and to get free...