I love knitting headbands, maybe more than I love wearing knit headbands, but I’m trying to get them into the rotation more often this year.
Knit headbands are generally pretty quick and easy to knit, they don’t take a lot … Read More ...
Work Your Memories Into a Blanket
I love the idea of thinking of your leftover yarn not as remnants or something wasteful, but as memories of the projects that you made with it. Much like making a patchwork quilt reminds you of all the things you … Read More ...
9 Sailor Slippers Knitting Patterns Everyone Is Talking About
If your Pinterest feed has suddenly turned into a parade of striped house slippers, you are definitely not imagining it. Sailor slippers have become one of those cozy knitting trends that seem to be everywhere at once, and once you … Read More ...
Take a Chance on Knitting the Dice Cowl
What happens when you mix a bunch of different colors with a few different stitch textures on the same knit cowl? Something like the Dice Cowl from Audrey Borrego.
This sock yarn stash buster is perfect for using up the … Read More ...
Little Knitting Projects to Slim Your Yarn Stash
After talking about ways to organize your yarn the other day, it got me thinking about how to use some of that yarn. Nothing motivates me to start new projects like cleaning up my stash, LOL.
In that spirit … Read More ...
How to Organize Yarn: Ideas for Sorting Your Stash
Getting our yarn stashes in order seems to be a common New Year’s resolution for knitters, or a target of our spring cleaning efforts later in the year. It looks like it’s been a while since I’ve talked about how … Read More ...
Get Your Fruits by Knitting the Fruit Salad Vest
I guess I’ve decided it’s time to start knitting vests, and while I typically think of vests as being for fall, this one is decidedly summery.
Vanessa Ewing’s Fruit Salad Fest is covered with all kinds of fruits. I see … Read More ...
Bookmark Knitting Patterns
It’s always a good time for a bookmark, and even more so as we start thinking about back to school time. Reading is more fun when you have a pretty bookmark. That’s just science.
Plus bookmarks are fast, portable, and … Read More ...
Hexagon Knitting Patterns
Knitting squares, rectangles and triangles can get boring after a while, so why not throw in some different shapes, like hexagons?
I started thinking about hexagons because of Amy Gunderson’s Rainbow Remnants cowl (see it on Ravelry), which uses … Read More ...
Linen Stitch Shawl Knitting Pattern is the Perfect Stash Buster
I’m never done thinking about different ways to use up yarn leftovers, mini skeins and odd balls. I am a little more interested in this sort of thing at the beginning of a new year (or a new month) but … Read More ...
Little Things to Knit to Make Winter Better
I know it hasn’t been actual winter in the Northern Hemisphere for that long, but as soon as we get past the holidays the weight of how much winter we have left to deal with starts to get to me. … Read More ...
Use Your Sock Yarn Scraps to Knit a Colorful Scarf
Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because … Read More ...
Use Your Stash on this Stranded Knit Sweater
I am known to be a big fan of stash busting projects (I even have a whole little ebook about it!) so when I saw the Stowaway pattern from Wool & Pine I knew I had to share it, and … Read More ...
Knit a Blanket that Looks Like a Quilt
I’ve been seeing a lot of knitting projects lately — whether they are new or older — that include elements that look like quilt blocks and I am here for it. My aunt is a quilter but I’ve never been … Read More ...
Another Way to Use Up All Your Sock Yarn Scraps
I feel like I’ve been writing a lot lately about projects that are made to use up all your scraps, or that could be adapted to use scraps, because they call for mini skeins and the like.
I have been … Read More ...