Over at the DIY Network there are tons of videos and tutorials, everything from glossaries, patterns, accessories and even spinning and dying. Check it out, especially if you’re a “have to see it to get it’ type of knitter.
Knitting Lace – Easy!
Berroco shows us how easy it is to make lace, with one simple technique – the Yarn Over! Watch their YouTube video, you’ll be making lace in no time.… Read More ...
Knitting and Felting Ideas for Earth Day
Favecraft.com has 10 ideas for re-using old sweaters from unknitting them and re-using the yarn, felting, making pillows or potholders, plastic bag holders, felted floral designs, cup or bottle cozies, using bits of felt in your paper designs, making a … Read More ...
Smashing Magazine Brings Us The Beauty of Knitting, Sewing and Crochet
A very nice article, with pictures for inspiration. Read the article, drool over the pictures, get inspired and then follow the links at the end of the article for more information! It’s all here….… Read More ...
New From Vogue…
Do you know what this is? This is truly High Tech Knitting. It’s Vogue’s new app for the i-phone. So cool!
The Vogue Knitting App allows you to keep track of your knitting life easily and efficiently. Store all of … Read More ...
Joins, Made Easy
If you’ve never read TECHKnitting’s blog, you’re missing out. This latest post talks about 10 different ways to join your yarn, the whys and wherefores of each method, as well as the whens and when not to’s. Hop over … Read More ...
Tips on Drafting
From River’s Edge Weaving Studio’s newsletter, are some good hints and tips when drafting your fibers to spin. Go to their site for even more info: http://www.weavingstudio.samsbiz.com/
- Fiber length – pull off a few representative fibers, and determine the longest
Lace Knitting – Reading a Chart
Sarah White, at Knitting.About.com has a wonderful article on Reading a Lace Chart. She also discusses using a lifeline and keeping your place in a pattern.
Go here to read Sarah’s article and sign up for her newsletter: http://knitting.about.com/od/knittingskills/ss/lace-knitting-chart.htm?nl=1… Read More ...
Technique – Plying With Beads
In Spin Off’s new e-newsletter, there is an article on plying with beads. Interesting, not because I need another hobby, but it’s just something that never occured to me. Spin your yarn, thread some beads on one of the singles … Read More ...
Rules For Caring For Summer Yarns…
This is taken directly from Handknitting.com’s newsletter, here: http://www.handknitting.com . Be sure to sign up, lots of good stuff!
- If your yarn is a natural fiber, you should be able to avoid dry cleaning completely if you want, because all
Ratty Old T-Shirts. They’re Not Just Swiffer Covers Anymore!
Stephanie, over at Glampyre Knits has a video tutorial on how to cut a tshirt and turn it into yarn. She’s also got an online class to teach you how to do this, finer points of the process and what … Read More ...
How To: Long Stripes In Your Hand Dyed Yarns.
Apparantly it’s pretty easy to do this. Apparantly dyeing yarn is easy no matter what label you give it, something I’ve only dabbled with. It’s a time thing. Other things take priority, like breathing, and knitting. But if you ever … Read More ...
Tutorial: Scarf Using Lana Grossa’s Gnocchi Yarn
From Jimmy Beans Wool and also, Lana Grossa, we have this video showing how to cast on and knit with this unusual yarn. 
The yarn comes in many colors, which you can see here: http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/LanaGrossa/Gnocchi.asp?gclid=CMjXg93Q0aACFcvV5wodxXCyzw
and the video (as well … Read More ...
How To: Lifelines
No, they’re not a life saving device. Well, wait a minute, maybe they are. If you’ve spent 64 years knitting a lace shawl and lose count and have to rip it all out, this very well may be what pushes … Read More ...
Shaping Technique
On Berroco’s excellent blog, today is a post on Managing Shaping. Shaping on both sides of a garment, simultaneously, is easy with these techniques!
Go here to read the whole post: http://blog.berroco.com/2010/02/23/at-the-same-time/
Thanks Berroco!… Read More ...