Since I was at home with a preschooler a lot longer than I meant to be over the holidays and beyond, I’m a little behind on year-end roundups, so I thought I would share a few of the favorite pattern … Read More ...
Amazing Knit Characters from The Hobbit
I love to see the amazing things that people come up with to knit. I generally stick to wearables, and have only participated in one yarn bombing, but I love it when people just go all out to celebrate something … Read More ...
Getting Started Stash Busting: What’s in There?
Today we’re ready to dive into the stash and start organizing it in a meaningful way for using it in projects.
For the most part when I think of using up stash I mean the little odds balls left over … Read More ...
Are You Ready for Some Stash Busting?
As I’ve been reading the comments on this week’s giveaway about crafty resolutions, I noticed that a lot of people want to finish more projects and work from their stash. I can’t help you much with the finishing (I’m the … Read More ...
A Sweet Story about Knitting for Babies
I don’t expect to see essays about knitting (with nary an animated gif in them!) at Buzzfeed, but this lovely story from Alanna Okun changed my mind a little bit.
Called “Babies Vary and Knitting Stretches” (a line from Elizabeth … Read More ...
Kara Gott Warner Promoted at Annie’s
Kara Gott Warner, editor of Creative Knitting magazine, has been named the new editorial director of knit and crochet at Annie’s, the speciality publisher that owns that magazine.
Warner will stay on as editor but will also oversee the company’s … Read More ...
Keep Your Arms, Hands and Wrists Happy in the New Year
If you’re like me, you’ve probably started a new knitting project or two with great enthusiasm in the past couple of days. Or maybe you’re just planning to knit more in the new year. Either way, you need to be … Read More ...
Knitting in the News, Looking Back and Ahead
A couple of strange knitting-related news items have hit my Facebook feed in the past couple of days that I thought you might be interested in. First off, of course Google releases a list of the most-searched terms each year, … Read More ...
Looking Ahead to 2014
Lion Brand Yarn has released its predictions for the state of knitting in 2014. Based on the recent arm knitting trend, they call for more huge knits, as well as more yarn that does the work for us … Read More ...
Merry Christmas from Berroco (and Me!)
I don’t know how I missed these in my roundup of adorable little Christmas sweater ornaments for the tree, but Berroco released a pattern collection called Minutia that includes four adorable knit and crocheted mini sweater ornaments for the tree.… Read More ...
The Strange Allure of Arm Knitting
Months ago I pinned that arm knitting video that’s all over Pinterest. I watched it and thought about writing about it. Clearly it was getting pinned a lot, but to me it just seemed like a strange craft that … Read More ...
North America’s Fastest Knitter Has a New Goal
I love this story from the Toronto Sun about the fastest knitter in North America, Lina Benne. The 49-year-old yarn shop owner from Mississauga entered a speed knitting contest on a whim back in 2004 and managed to knit … Read More ...
Funny Videos and More About Knitting
It must be winter coming on, because it seems like I’ve been hearing about a lot of new humorous videos and websites with knitting as a theme. In case you’ve missed some, here’s a roundup of some of my favorites.… Read More ...
How to Count Hard-to-See Stitches
We all know that making a gauge swatch is important, as is getting an accurate measurement and stitch count from that swatch. But that can be difficult if you’re knitting with a really fuzzy or textured yarn.
What I … Read More ...
Learn a Method for Jogless Color Joins in the Round
Knitting in the round is a lot of fun, and at least makes projects feel like they go more quickly, but one problem with circular knitting comes when you knit stripes and you have that little jog where the colors … Read More ...
