Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas
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/
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 ...
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 … Read More ...
This is taken directly from Handknitting.com’s newsletter, here: http://www.handknitting.com . Be sure to sign up, lots of good stuff!
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 … Read More ...
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 ...
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 … Read More ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stumbling around Flickr, as I’ve been known to do, I came across this. It’s called Free Form Knitting, and there’s a whole Flickr group devoted to it. To me it almost looks like the whole of the Eurasian/African Continents, but … Read More ...
Two needle bind offs are a technique used to bind off stitches when finishing a knitting project. There are two types of two needle bind offs: the three needle bind off and Elizabeth Zimmermann’s easy bind off.
Three needle bind … Read More ...
This is just a multiple of 6 stitches plus 3, and looks like columns on both sides.
Just knit 3, p 3, here’s the deets!
http://www.examiner.com:80/x-6152-Boston-Knitting-Examiner~y2009m8d7-Reversible-knit-stitch-pattern–Alternating-threes… Read More ...
Twenty Ten! Sounds funny doesn’t it? Although it does have a nice way of rolling off the tongue, I’m still not ready for it, Never am but the New Year arrives anyway. New Year’s resolutions go unmade (from 2009!) yet … Read More ...
Double Knitting! Have you tried it? Success? Fail? Or other?
One of my favorite blogs, Fugue State Knits has listed 3 of Twist Collective’s YouTube videos to help you learn this fascinating technique. Me? Yes I’ve tried it, but that … Read More ...
So one of my daughters decided she wanted this, from Nashua Handknits, City Streets Pattern Book from the Autumn 2008, Winter 2009 collection, but, and here’s the kicker, she wanted a cardigan, not a pullover.
How hard can it … Read More ...
