Category Archives: Inspiration

Our Favorite Multitasking Media

Whether you're traveling over the next couple of weeks, furiously knitting to finish up gifts, or or simply just relaxing this holiday season, a good podcast or TV show is an excellent way to entertain you. Monotonous tasks just seem so much better when you have friends around, even if those friends do live in your earbuds or on your screen. Since all of here at Knit Picks staff are big fans of various multitasking media, we thought we share some of our favorites with you.

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Stocking Stuffer ‘Stravaganza

I don’t know about you, but I love a good stocking. They were a pretty big deal in my family when I was young and I've tried to carry on the tradition of presenting them ridiculously overflowing. Sometimes putting together a truly good stocking is almost more work than all of your other gift shopping combined, so we thought you might want some inspiration.

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Ready to Wrap

The staff at Knit Picks loves the holidays because we get to share all our crafty expertise with friends and family from baking treats to knitting with steeks. We also know that ambition can get the best of us, therefore, this year we designed for our gift giving-loving customers a menagerie of Ready to Wrap Gifts!

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Meet Kate, New Administrative Assistant

Greetings! I am the newest marketing administrative assistant here at Knit Picks. I’ll be behind the scenes of all things social media, email, and design related. I consider it a dream come true to be working in an environment surrounded by so much crafty goodness. Hey Kate! How long have you been at Knit Picks? I started just after Thanksgiving of this year, because who doesn’t love to make major life changes during the holidays? Seriously though, I had been at my previous job in Portland for almost 9 years, and as they say, it was time for a new, craftier challenge in life. I left the world of community-owned food cooperatives, where I had most recently filled the role of ...

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Meet Brooke!

Hello!  I’m Brooke!  I’m the new graphic designer over at KnitPicks, and I’m super excited to be here. My craft background is like a patchwork made out of things you find in the back of your art cabinet.  I’m a big fan of graphite, colored pencil, and ink work.  I’m also partial toward digital illustration, geometric sculpture, and finding random things to glue together.  I do knit and crochet, but I’ve never successfully knitted in the round (which I’m fixing to change here pretty soon). I’m learning to knit lace, which is going well, if slowly.  There are so many talented knitters here at KnitPicks, and their creations are inspiring me to work harder to improve! In my spare time I’m usually in the middle of ...

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Free Chevron Stripes Dishcloth

Welcome to Week 47 of our Clean & Crafty Free Pattern series! The chevron stitch is one of my all time favorite for projects - my Dreamy Waves Scarf has a variation. For dishcloths, it gives a visual interest, especially when combined with blocks of color in the Chevron Stripes Dishcloth.

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Knit Picks at Vogue Knitting Live
Podcast 267: Vogue Knitting Live Seattle

This week the Knit Picks team sits down to chat about our first show, Vogue Knitting Live! We had so much fun meeting other fiber folks, and in this episode, we gush about all of it—including the goodies we bought from other vendors at the show. To start, our opening crew Jennifer, Stacey, and Hannah talk about their experience at the first half of the show. After that, Daniel talks with Alison and Alexis who closed the show down with him.

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12 Weeks of Gifting – Kite Bunting

12 Weeks of Gifting is winding down - only 3 more weeks left, which rather fills me with terror that I have no holiday knitting done yet! If you're like me and need a quick and cute project, you can't go wrong with Week 9's free pattern - Kite Bunting!

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Free Dishcloth Pattern – Sagittarius

Are you a wanderer, born under the sign of the archer? Then the 11th pattern in our free year long Zodiac Dishcloth series is perfect for you! Check out the lovely Scorpio Dishcloth by Beth Major.

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