One of my favourite knitting tools is a scale to weigh my yarn. The Benefits of Using a Yarn Scale A scale allows you to do several things: Check how much yarn you actually have (it is rare for a 100 g ball to have exactly 100 g in it. This can help you make more...
The centred double decrease is a lovely, prominent decrease that turns 3 stitches into 1. It creates a clear strong line when the decreases are stacked one on top of the other as shown above. Most people are familar with how to do the CDD with knit stitches. Here we...
Look what I got! Yes, this is Pretty Strings’ amazing yarn advent calendar. When Karin, the inspired dyer, told me this year’s advent calendar is made up of five fading sets of five mini skein fades, I got all excited. Options for those mini-skeins The...
Excitement all around How excited do you get when new yarn arrives in the mail? I don’t know about you, but I get pretty darned excited. Do you ever wonder how the yarn feels? How does the yarn feel Well, here is a glimpse of how excited the yarn gets about...
A tutorial for a super-stretchy cast on. It is easy to do, strong and sleek (includes description, photos and a video). My two favourite types of projects to make are lace shawls and socks. Depending on how you work them, either project may require a stretchy cast-on....