I Love Yarn Day to Celebrate Fiber for a Month

I Love Yarn Day is technically a month out — Oct. 15 — but the people behind it (that’s the Craft Yarn Council, by the way) are starting the celebration early this year with a lot of fun content meant to inspire knitters, crocheters and other yarn crafters to Stitch it Forward, aka to teach a yarn craft to others.

Through the month leading up to I Love Yarn Day, they’ll be releasing conversations about yarn and design with some of our favorite designers and bloggers and they’re hosting a scavenger hunt where you can win some great prizes such as gift cards, interchangeable knitting needles, subscriptions to CreativeBug, subscriptions to magazines and more.

The contest runs from today through Oct. 23. Answer 21 questions for a chance to win.

You can also participate by using the hashtags #stitchitforward and #iloveyarnday on social media, or print out the I Love Yarn Because template (it’s a PDF) and share your answer on social.

Have you ever taken part in I Love Yarn Day? Who can you teach to knit or crochet this year? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[Photo via I Love Yarn Day.]

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Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough.

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern.

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed.

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do.

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces.

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls.

You can grab the pattern over at Our Daily Craft, or check it out on Ravelry.

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