The Knitter’s Planner Was Made with Knitters in Mind

A lot of knitters I know like paper planners, calendars and journals rather than digital. I think that’s because paper products give us another way to be a little crafty (especially if you’re into bullet journaling) and somehow seeing everything on paper in front of you makes you feel more organized.

A paper planner can also make it easier to keep your knitting life organized, especially when you pick one that’s made with a knitter in mind. The Knitter’s Planner is just such a tool.

The Knitter’s Planner was envisioned by Stephanie Palmer, creator of the Quilter’s Planner, and was designed in collaboration with Kara Gott Warner, veteran craft publishing editor, designer and business coach.

“We realized there was nothing out there offering a customized planning system for knitters to organize their daily life and projects in one convenient place,” she said. “The 7” x 9” planner size is so practical, making it a no-brainer to pop it in your knitting bag so it’s always there just when you need it.”

The planner gives plenty of options for customization, including Sunday or Monday week starts, four different layouts for calendar pages, including dotted and graph paper pages for designs or bullet journaling.

It also includes project planning pages, a knitting reference section, places for stash and needle inventory and more.

If you want to check the planner out for yourself, the presale is going on now, which will get you 10 percent off the regular purchase price. There are multiple cover options as well, or you can opt to just get the pages if you have a planner cover you love.

What do you think about this idea? Would you buy a planner made with knitters in mind?

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When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations.

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind.

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca.

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl.

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions.

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic).

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only.

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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