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Kelley chats with Kate, Angela and Kerin about their favorite books and patterns for holiday gift knitting.
Books Reviewed
CowlGirls by Cathy Carron
Boutique Knits by Laura Irwin
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I know Halloween was only yesterday, but I’ve been seeing Christmas
decorations in the shops for months and it’s got me thinking of candy
canes and gingerbread men. Here’s a cute project I made with our Snow Days kit and some Winter Fun fabric from our sister company, Connecting Threads, that you might want to make this month so that you’ll be ready to countdown to Christmas on December 1st!
Winter Fun also comes in blue, so it’d be very easy to adapt this idea for Hanukkah.
Read more »I’ve created some videos to show you how to unknit (or tink–which is knit backwards) a row, unravel several rows, and also drop a stitch and knit it back up. These are the most common ways to fix your knitting, and you will use these techniques again and again!
Read more »We had a Halloween party in the office today. My coworkers are so creative, it’s really fun to see their Halloween costumes each year. This year, my coworkers were scheming behind my back. I was completely surprised when I came into the office to see everyone dressed as me!
I hate being cold. I hate seeing my loved ones get cold. I guess
this might be why I love knitting so much! When I started dreaming up a
design for a hat and convertible mitts to function as the ultimate warm
accesories, I decided to zero in on the parts of me that get coldest,
fastest, when I am out and about in the winter months: my ears, and my
fingers. Using that a a starting point, I worked up a design for a
dapper, plaid hat and mitts that would harness the intese softmness and
warmth of Suri Dream and concentrate it exactly where it will be needed: lining the earflaps and mitten tops of our Into The Woods hat and mitts!
When I think of taking a Snow Day this winter, I imagine myself cozied up on the couch, watching fireplace videos, and knitting happily on all of the tiny treasures in our new Snow Day Ornament pattern!
You may have thought I was kidding when I showed you my first treasure from Cowl Girls by Cathy Carron.
But, clearly, I could not resist! I love the hand-painted colors in Wool of the Andes Bulky – Beach Front.
This one has twelve more inches of K2, P2 ribbing. Just the ticket for Chinese dinner out with friends tonight. Pass the veggie Moo Shu!
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The first step to fixing a knitting mistake is preventing a knitting mistake in the first place. This first video shows you how to count stitches and rows in stockinette, reverse stockinette, and garter stitch fabric. That way, if you set your knitting down, or lose your place, you can just count your stitches and rows to figure out where you were in the pattern.
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The moment Cowl Girls by Cathy Carron landed on my desk, I was ready to drop everything and start knitting! What a variety of designs! Where to start?
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