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Knit and Crochet Now! Ending after Season 13

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Annie’s has announced that the latest season of “Knit and Crochet Now!,” which is the 13th, will be the last. The show, which has aired on PBS stations around the country, is currently midway through the season, which will wrap up at the end of April (at least on my local station)

According to a statement on Facebook, Annie’s decided to cease production, but all episodes of the series are available for viewing by members of Annie’s Creative Studio.

“After 13 wonderful seasons full of creativity, excitement and love for all things knit and crochet, we would like to extend our thanks to all of our excellent instructors, and to you, our loyal fans,” the post said.

“Knit and Crochet Now” is a program focused on building knit and crochet skills and demonstrating patterns on a theme. A changing set of hosts and guest instructors has been on the show through the years, with some of the current series instructors including Lily Chin, Britt Schmiesing, Lena Skvagerson, Kristin Omdahl and Rachel Alford.

Annie’s Creative Studio is a monthly membership program that gives people access to more than 1,900 videos and 1,500 patterns related to knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting and home decorating. New content is regularly added to the platform.

Annie’s is currently offering a 15-day free trial of the program, which costs $7.99 per month. You can also purchase individual episodes for $3.99 each if there are only a few episodes you need access to.

The plan is to keep the Knit and Crochet Now Facebook and Instagram pages open so people can continue to share and learn in those communities.

While it’s always sad to see fiber arts publications and programs go away, “Knit and Crochet Now” has been a great resource and introduction to the fiber arts for many crafters over many years and we are thankful for its legacy.

[Photo via Knit and Crochet Now Facebook page.]

 

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  1. Beautiful shrug. I like how you made such a versatile use of a little bit of yarn. I don’t have a Sentro (yet) but I do have 2 flatbed knitting machines and love to design garments on them, a real superpower of these machines!

  2. Thank you! I have a flatbed machine as well and I need to do more patterns for it. You could definitely do this on a flatbed, you’d just make one long flat piece and then fold and seam the sleeves.

Have you read?

Strategies for Using All Your Yarn

I make my interest in using your yarn stash pretty clear (I mean, I have actually written an ebook about it), and one great way to use your stash is to make sure that you use as much of the yarn you have in a particular project as you can so you won’t add leftover yarn to your stash.

Since I’m often making things up as I go along (whether that’s because I’m designing on the fly or working from a pattern without being sure I have enough yarn to make it) I’ve come up with a few tips that might help you if you’re trying to use all the yarn you have on a particular project.

The story behind this post was that I had some really great yarn I wanted to make into a tank top. I found a pattern (the tank top from KnitCroAddict) and I thought I had enough yarn based on what the pattern called for. But I also tend to like tops to be longer than a lot of patterns suggest, so I wanted to make sure I could make my top as long as possible without running out of yarn.

The main strategy that helps with this process is to do whatever finishing you can before the garment is actually finished. If you’re knitting a sweater, knit the sleeves first. In this case it was knitting the edgings on the neckline and the armholes.

Of course it’s also possible to work in a different yarn in a stripe or another way if you need your yarn to go farther, this was more about wanting to use all of a great yarn that I had and not really having anything that went with it to add in.

Check out my other strategies for using all the yarn and how my tank top turned out over at Our Daily Craft.

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