I’ve always enjoyed knitting cowls (here and here), but I have a few of my own and couldn’t quite justify knitting yet another one. So when my friend Sally asked me to knit her a cowl, I was happy for an excuse to make another one. I started knitting some mittens with size 1 needles…
20 Free Knitting Patterns for Advanced Knitters
The thing about advanced knitting techniques is that they always seem intimidating until you try them. Once you learn the terminology to knit socks or how to manage multiple strings of yarn for color work, you wonder why you thought it was so hard. How do you define an advanced pattern? To me, a pattern…
8 Yarns for Your Next Knitting or Crochet Project
Do you ever wonder how days are declared official holidays or celebrations? Who decided to create Social Media Day or Flag Day or Bring Your Teddy Bear to School or Work Day? There’s a whole website devoted to these special days…some are fairly well known, like Earth Day. But then you have Morse Code Day,…
a little baby sweater
I finally remembered to photograph my latest project before mailing it this week. It seems like I’m going through a baby knitting spurt recently. If people I know would stop having babies, I could get back to a few other projects (just kidding). One of the reasons I love baby projects is that they’re so…
saltine toffee recipe
My camera is sitting on a shelf in my living room. It isn’t small. It’s there staring me in the face every day. Yet I somehow managed to forget to take pictures of my last two knitting projects. It’s a shame since they were both so cute. Maybe I was too excited to give them…
25 Free Beginner Knitting Patterns
Take a second and think back to when you first started knitting. Were you intimidated by difficult techniques? Was it hard to find patterns at your skill level? Did you want a list of beginner knitting patterns? Preferably free beginner knitting patterns? I remember being frustrated by all the terms and techniques. I wanted to…
understanding yarn labels
Are you ever confused by the labels on your yarn? This helpful infographic from Stitch11 shows you all the details on weights, gauges and laundering. How many of you are sticklers for checking your gauge? It’s one of the things I hate the most and I’ve been burned before by knitting things that are too small…
tawny owl
*Update* The winner of the pattern is Sarah Boyce! Congrats! If you’d like to purchase the pattern, you can do so here. As a kid, I used to love owls. I had a book that had an owl in it and couldn’t get enough of owls. Ironically, I’ve also been afraid of birds since I…
5 tips for learning a new knitting skill
I haven’t challenged myself by learning a new knitting technique in quite a while. The Tunisian Crochet Stitch was new, but not too much of a challenge. Last summer I designed my first pattern. My first crochet project remains one of my favorites, mainly because I love the colors. I’ve always wanted to learn how…
summer knitting
Is it too early to be thinking about Fall? Here we are on the second official day of Summer and I’m longing for cool, fall days with sweatshirts and pumpkin and football. There are things I like about Summer, but I’m not a hot weather girl. And it has been VERY hot in Denver so…