Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas
This week’s giveaway is for the girly girls, the ladies who love feminine fashion and a bit of a challenge or an interesting technique in their knitting projects.
Dress-to-Impress Knitted Scarves
by Pam Powers offers 24 knit scarves, cowls, ascots, … Read More ...
I would have thought that the excitement about arm knitting would have calmed down by now, but I still get questions about it from people all the time.
So does blogger Crafty Gemini, so she decided to do a video … Read More ...
I know Christmas is long past, but being that it’s Epiphany today I figure we have one last chance to talk about the holidays, and in that spirit I bring you this story about the time Tim Horton’s took over … Read More ...
I got a little obsessed with brioche knitting this fall. I’m not quite sure I’m over it; I really want to knit a brioche cowl (when by all accounts I should be over cowls, too, given how many I knit … Read More ...
Every time I do a roundup of cowl knitting patterns, it seems like another round of the projects hits my email box. That’s a good problem to have because cowls are fun to knit and really useful. I don’t wear … Read More ...
I have been feeling the desire to knit a lot of hats lately, which is kind of funny because I don’t wear hats all that often. I usually only wear mine when my daughter makes me go out and play … Read More ...
Congratulations to Yolanda.
The sixth season of Knit and Crochet Now! is set to begin airing on public television in January, but we’ve got a sneak peek this week as well as a chance for one of you to win … Read More ...
Mistakes in knitting happen to all of us, all the time. Recently I was knitting a scarf and I somehow ended up with one more stitch than I was supposed to have, and I ended up knitting for a couple … Read More ...
New Year’s Eve doesn’t get the crafty build up that Christmas does, probably because frankly we’re all kind of tired after the big event and no one can quite handle another holiday exactly a week later.
But if you’re going … Read More ...
If you’re shopping for a knitter or just want to drop some last-minute hints (aside from knit-covered shoes), I have a couple of lists over at About for stocking stuffers and larger gifts for knitters.
People don’t usually buy me … Read More ...
We are coming down to the wire on Hanukkah and Christmas, but there’s still time to do some gift knitting if you want to. It’s not ideal, but there are a lot of quick knitting projects out there that can … Read More ...
There’s no end to the great scarf knitting patterns out there, and there are more being published all the time, so there’s never going to be a definitive roundup of scarf knitting patterns, which is great for me because it … Read More ...
Congratulations to Cindy S!
I was cleaning up my office over the weekend and I found a bunch more stuff to give away, lucky you!
This week we’re going to do Once Upon a Knit
by Genevieve Miller. This fun … Read More ...
Most knitters know about Sashay and similar fabric yarns that are most commonly used to stitch up quick frilly scarves (I used a similar lace yarn to knit a scarf, and you can find a video tutorial on how
Santa is a classic symbol of the Christmas holiday season, and with these 8 Santa knitting patterns, you can feel a little more festive this holiday season. You can either knit some for yourself, or for a little early gift … Read More ...
