Red Heart Launches New Website

Red Heart recently launched a redesigned website that is prettier and aims to make it easier for you to find the knitting and crochet patterns (and yarn information) you want.

RedHeart.com provides more than 2,300 free knitting and crochet patterns for both the beginner and experienced knitter or crocheter, so everyone can find inspiration. There are also hundreds of video tutorials to help learn different stitches. You can browse patterns by most popular or recently added, as well as searching key words.

The company’s blog is also more prominent, which is nice. It’s a good place to learn about knitalongs, charity projects and other fun stuff. You can also see the items recently pinned on Pinterest, which is fun.

“The re-launch of RedHeart.com is a project we worked on passionately,” Alyson Bell, marketing director for Coats Crafts North America, said in a news release. “We wanted to make it easy for our consumers to navigate the site and find inspiration, as well as being able to shop for everything needed to get started.”

I’d say it’s a big improvement and will certainly keep visitors engaged and browsing through the patterns.

See anything you like? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[Photo via Red Heart.]

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Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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