Last month I wrote about making Zog. Each month I am trying to push myself out of my comfort zone, and make a special square for the charity Hug In A Blanket. For June, I chose Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as he is a favourite in this Read more…
I know, I know. It’s not winter weather yet. So a cowl probably isn’t high on your to-do list of things to knit right now. But stash busting is! If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a skein or two of a chunky weight yarn hiding in your stash. And… Read more…
No matter what your craft is. Be it knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving, silversmithing, drawing, papercrafting. Anything. It is important, every now and again at least, to push ourselves and go outside of our comfort zone. Not that long ago I posted about my first ever crochet square. And just before Read more…
As you may know, I’m a BIG fan of wool yarns. Especially alpaca! The sustainability. The renewability. The breathability. The…you get the picture. I’m a fan. But this doesn’t mean I won’t use acrylic yarns occasionally. It does have benefits. But one of the biggest misconceptions about acrylic yarn is Read more…
Creating amazing appliqué designs is a lot easier than you may have believed! Whether you are adding letters, numbers, whole words, or motifs and symbols, this tutorial will help you transform your skills from “meh” to “amazing” with the applied i-cord technique!
While writing up the Simon’s Jumper pattern one row was particularly difficult to articulate. This is the row where you transition from knitting flat, to knitting in the round. You’ve probably read the row a thousand times. And it still reads like gobbledygook. Sorry about that. In reality, it’s surprisingly Read more…
If you’re knitting something small or flat then a regular tension swatch is perfectly fine. But if you’re a big garment knitter then you’ll need a dressed tension swatch.
Following on from my previous post – The Texel Project – I had a few concerns about the weight of the yarn. It is listed as a chunky weight on the World of Wool website. But it is also a 3ply yarn and in my experience 2 or 3ply chunky Read more…
Free tutorial teaching you exactly how I seam the Ancestral Fingerless Mittens pattern.
Knitting with a newborn isn’t an easy feat. Even if they didn’t have a lot of needs which take up a lot of time, they are just darn so cute that you would spend all that time just watching them be cute. For those who aren’t aware, my husband and Read more…