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Add to My Knit List: Lion Brand Bonbons

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lion brand bonbonsLion Brand Yarn has some really great products, and I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time. But their new product, Bonbons, really caught my eye.

These mini-skein packs offer eight different colors of yarn in either cotton, acrylic or an acrylic/metallic polyester blend. The skeins are 28 yards each for the cotton and acrylic options and about 38 yards for the glittery option.

The cotton and metallic yarns are rated as fine weight (number 2), while the 100 percent acrylic is light weight (3).

There are six different colorways available, two in each material. These little skeins would be perfect for adding trim to a project, working a little striped or Fair Isle project, using for embellishing a finished project worked in another yarn or making small items like dolls or amigirumi.

I can’t wait to get my hands on these and I’ll let you know how it goes when I do. In the meantime, I’d love to know what your favorite kind of little knitting project is.

[Photo by Lion Brand.]

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  1. I love scarves. Short and simple, my favorite kind of knitting 🙂
    Trying to pick up the art of toy making. I want to make a dinosaur.

Have you read?

Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!