While you’re busy knitting yourself a new sweater, you might start to think that your old sweaters aren’t looking so great. Maybe you’ve juts worn the same ones for years and would rather see a different look, or maybe there’s … Read More ...
A Machine-Knit Sweater with Fun Details
I know most of you are not machine knitters, but I love the designs that Donatella at Inspiration and Realisation comes up with so I wanted to share this one anyway.
What I love about her stuff is that she’s … Read More ...
Extra Yarn? Make Some Easy Acorns
I don’t post a lot of things here that don’t actually have to do with knitting, but these yarn acorns from Crafts ‘n Coffee are cute and a great way to use a little bit of fall colored yarn you … Read More ...
You (Probably) Already Know All You Need to Knit a Sweater
Welcome back to Sweater Month! I wanted to get started with a little pep talk and a reminder that you probably already know everything you need to know in order to successfully knit a sweater.
Yes, an adult-sized sweater is … Read More ...
Practice Your Mitering Skills on a Simple Washcloth
Knitting mitered squares is a really fun knitting technique that looks a lot more complicated than it is. All you’re really doing is strategically decreasing at the middle of the project to make it into a square.
Once you’ve tried … Read More ...
Fun Ways to Find More Time to Knit
Now that fall is officially here in the northern part of the world, I know we’re all planning a lot of great knitting projects and hoping for more time to knit.
But knitting time doesn’t just happen; sometimes you have … Read More ...
Great Ways to Weave in Ends
I confess I’m not great at weaving in ends. Sometimes it’s hard to decide exactly where to put them, or it can get tricky in colorwork knitting to hide them in the right places. And I suffer from end creep. … Read More ...
Printable Row Counter Makes Your Notes Prettier
Sometimes I can find — or actually get up and bother to find — a real row counter when I need one for a knitting project. But usually I just make hash marks on whatever piece of paper/back of an … Read More ...
Big Sweaters are, Well, Big for Fall
“Yarn for years” is how Wall Street Journal reporter Megan Hayes described the sweaters seen in collections for this fall (which were shown back in the spring). She notes that giant cowls and roomy sweaters were everywhere to be seen, … Read More ...
Check out the Pantone Colors for Spring ’15
I know, I know, we just started talking about knitting for fall and winter and now the “experts” want us to start thinking about spring? So it is in fashion, and with New York Fashion Week in full swing, Pantone … Read More ...
Embellish Your Knits Easily with Mr. Micknit
Have you ever knit something, maybe for a gift or for the holidays, and wanted to give it a little extra special something without a whole lot of work on your part?
I got the chance to play with a … Read More ...
Have You Ever Knit with Fabric?
Knitting with fabric, whether T-shirt yarn or another material, can be a lot of fun. It’s usually pretty bulky yarn, meaning you can knit up a project in a flash that has a lot of texture and personality.
For example, … Read More ...
Knitting Hack: How to End a Circular Knitting Project
There are lots of little tricks in knitting that you don’t necessarily learn when you’re learning how to knit, particularly if you learned from the Internet (not that there’s anything wrong with that; I’m proud to teach people to knit … Read More ...
Alice Springs Hosts Celebration of Hats
Funky hats abounded in Alice Springs, Australia, with the Beanie Festival and Exhibition that took place late last month. (This article says it goes on through mid-July but I’m not seeing that anywhere on the event’s website, but … Read More ...
Check Out This Amazing Knit Circuit
I will never say that I’ve seen it all when it comes to knitting, because people are endlessly creative when it comes to uses for knitting, ways to knit and things to knit that I don’t think there’s an end … Read More ...
