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A metal bowl full of green, lavender, and pink yarn sits next to a ceramic planter. A multicolored mitered square blanket in progress sits in the foreground.

How to Avoid Tangling Yarn While Knitting

A flatlay photo showing a pair of pink cabled socks with eyelets on the left, a pair of blue-gray cabled socks in the middle, and a pair of mint green socks with columns of eyelets on the right. The blue-gray socks are on a pair of wire sock blockers. A mint green teacup full of chamomile and a few small white roses complete the scene.

Do You Really Need Sock Blockers for Your Knit Socks?

A top-down photo focused on a pair of handknit sock in progress. One sock is almost done and just needs the toes grafted, while the other is just ribbing on a small circular needle. The socks are a soft blue-green with hints of gray and feature a cabled panel around the front. They're surrounded by a pink teacup and saucer (with lots of milky tea in the cup), antique doilies, and peach and white roses.

Why I Don’t Like “Increase Evenly” as a Knitting Pattern Instruction

The finished headband, though it's still not blocked. After the seam, it has a twisty little knot portion at the center of the headband.

How to Knit an Ear Warmer Using Any Sock Pattern – Free Tutorial

A close-up on a shawl pin made of a brass circle of art nouveau-style calla lilies and a wooden stick pin.

Four Tips to Keep Knit Shawls from Slipping

A pink and cream hat composed entirely of mitered squares is laid flat on a textured gray surface. It's surrounded by a gold and white teacup full of tea, white roses, antique paper ephemera, two cakes of leftover yarn in the same colors as the hat, and a mitered square in progress on two tiny steel needles.

Learning to Knit Mitered Squares from Woolly Wormhead

A top-down image of a flatlay on a white marble countertop. In the center is a blue knit baby bonnet. The bonnet has red ribbing around the brim and white scalloped crochet trim. There is white and red roosimine and French knot detailing just above the ribbed brim. The bonnet is surrounded by leftover skeins of yarn, antique paper ephemera, and a gold and white teacup full of tea.

About that Time I Tried Roosimine with My Knitting

A top-down image of three purple yarn swatches, a teacup full of espresso, some old books, and a pitcher full of roses just peeking into the left corner of the image.

Should You Use a Slip Stitch Knitting Edge?

A top-down image of pastel knit items - a gray hat, a light blue hat, and pink socks - surrounded by paper ephemera and white roses on top of a white marble countertop.

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I’ve had these mini skeins for several years, and I’ve had these mini skeins for several years, and after a few test runs at different projects that didn’t work, I think I have finally figured out what I want to do with them. Many thanks to @emmacmakes for her excellent tutorial on how to crochet a moss stitch granny square! Yarn is from an advent calendar I bought from @playfuldayyarns, and while I’ve so enjoyed just hoarding the mini skeins and ogling them, I’m excited to use them finally, too.
The Fading Flowers Hat is here! This collaboration The Fading Flowers Hat is here! This collaboration with @seachangefibers has a cozy double brim, cute little bobble flowers, and a spiraling crown that is so satisfying. Comment “bobbles” and I’ll send you a link to where you can get the pattern on Ravelry.
Sorry friends, but you’re gonna keep hearing me si Sorry friends, but you’re gonna keep hearing me singing the praises of blocking all of your knits until the cows come home (my fifth grade teacher would be so pleased to know that is still a regular part of my vocabulary). Whenever I see knitters struggling with making their finished knit look more polished, the number one problem is that they aren’t blocking their knits. If you’re knitting with a natural fiber, giving your finished project a gentle steam or a soak in lukewarm water and then laying it flat to dry is a crucial part of helping the stitches settle into place. Here is a visual demonstration of why just putting on the finished project and wearing it around won’t achieve the same results.
Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’re knitting a Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’re knitting along on a project when you start to develop a sinking feeling in your stomach. It doesn’t look right. Something isn’t working. Before long, the feeling has intensified, building until you know there’s only one solution: ripping out your work and starting over again. Ribbit. Ribbit. While frogging isn’t always the best way to fix a problem, here are some scenarios where it’s pretty much unavoidable.
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