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Help Your Kids Learn to Knit with Rowan

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Lots of people are pulling together to help us keep our kids educated and entertained these days, and the good folks at Rowan Yarns have stepped up with a five-part class to help kids learn to knit.

In these free classes they will learn how to cast on and bind off as well as the knit stitch and some fun projects (it looks like a snake, a striped cowl and a hand puppet). They’ll use super bulky yarn and size US 15 knitting needles for the projects.

Children must be signed up by a parent using their email address. This looks like a lot of fun for littles who don’t know how to knit yet. They recommend it for kids 7 and up, but you know your child and their possible interest in learning so feel free to go younger if you want. Then you’ll have a tiny knitting companion, which is really the best thing ever.

[Photo: Rowan Yarns.]

Specific to knitters, you can join our Knitting Patterns Only group to get, well, knitting patterns, ask questions and gain inspiration for what to knit next.

Check out these books dedicated to Knitted Cowl Patterns still looking for more cowl patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

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One of my missions as a crafter is to encourage people to use what they have to make something great. Accumulating stash is fun, but at some point you realize that you have more than you can ever use, and that can be really overwhelming.

A couple of years ago I wrote a book called How to Declutter Your Craft Supplies, which is all about why it’s so hard to let go of stash and how to deal with it. This is something I still struggle with and I’m in the midst of cleaning out my office/studio yet again (seriously, how can I still have so much stuff when I’m not buying anything new?).

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