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  • A flatlay photograph of a sweater vest in progress. It's tan and has lots of bobbles with rippling garter stitch. It's surrounded by white roses, a teacup full of chamomile, a lace handkerchief, and some antique paper ephemera.

    Knitting Without Fear, from Beginner to Expert

    Five children's books are laid out flat on a gray surface, surrounded by several white roses, some knitting projects, a teacup and saucer, and a couple antique doilies. The books are The Complete Brambly Hedge, Julia's House for Lost Creatures, Minou, Little Women, and Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine.

    5 Cottagecore Children’s Stories Inspiring My Knitting Designs

    A pair of copper scissors with handles shaped like swans sits on a cream doily. On either side of the scissors are a pink sheath for the scissor blades and a tiny circular needle with the beginnings of a cream-colored sock on it.

    7 Knitting Tools for Every Project Bag: Product Reviews

    A top-down photo of two pairs of handknit socks (pink and gray) and two pairs of store-bought socks (gray athletic socks and mid-calf socks with stripes of pink, white, and gray). They're surrounded by pink and yellow roses, a plaster intaglio, a brass key with a pink tassel, and a tiny silver tray with brass bulb pins in it.

    How Hand-Knit Socks Helped Me Learn to Love My Store-Bought Socks

    A multicolored mitered square blanket in progress is draped across the back of a slipcovered arm chair. In the background are a potted plant, a lamp, a picture frame, and some windows.

    Blocks and Blocks: A Mitered Square Blanket Update

    A knitter in the passenger's seat of a car works on a tan hat.

    4 Tips for Successful Car Knitting

    A blonde white woman in a blue ruffled shirt (that's me!) cracks up with laughter while trying to knit a sock.

    Knitting in Public at My High School Reunion

    A top-down photograph of a pair of gray-green socks with cable and seed stitch panels down the front and back. One sock still needs its toe grafted together. To the left of the socks is a canister of Tea Forte's Apricot Amaretto tea. It's a black canister with a tan label that has apricot-colored embellishments. A little tea is spilled across the counter to show its texture. To the right of the socks is a white teacup and saucer. The cup is full of Apricot Amaretto tea with milk. Small balls of snowball viburnum are scattered about the image.

    May Sip and Stitch – Socks + Sanditon

    Four fiber friends bundled up in our natural habitat: a yarn shop. From left to right is Emily, me, Britt, and Beth. We're all grinning from ear to ear.

    Six Tips for Enjoying a Yarn Crawl

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    It’s been a while since I took a moment to log the It’s been a while since I took a moment to log the little things that have made me smile lately. Here’s a sampling: knitting, roses, happy little moments.
    Here’s a peek at how I like to test out new constr Here’s a peek at how I like to test out new constructions of sock components without knitting an entire pair of socks. Have you ever tried this method before?
    I’ve been thinking a lot about perfectionism again I’ve been thinking a lot about perfectionism again lately, and how so often, it just ends up getting in our own way. If you’ve got a random purl stitch when it should have been a knit, or an ssk instead of a k2tog, or something else tiny like that, and you don’t notice until several rows later? It’s okay to just leave it. You don’t have to drop back to fix it if you don’t feel like it, and you DEFINITELY don’t have to rip out your work and start over.
    I promise, the project you’re looking for isn’t co I promise, the project you’re looking for isn’t covered up by the text!

But as you can see from this video, even major mistakes are hard to spot at a quick glance, and most people aren’t giving our clothing more attention than that. If the mistake doesn’t affect the functionality of your finished knit, it’s totally okay to leave it there. I do it all the time.
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