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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 ...
Want A New Project?
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 ...
3 Needle Bind Off – Knitting Technique
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 ...
Reversible Knit Stitch
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 ...
Knitting Tips For 2010
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 ...
Growing A Better Knitter Part 2
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 ...