Yarn swift know-how is first, then we knit!If you’ve ever tried to wind yarn from a skein by hand, you know how quickly things can go wrong—tangles, knots, and frustration can make yarn preparation a real headache. That’s where a yarn swift comes in!This handy knitting tool makes winding yarn into a neat, usable ball . . .

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How to Use a Yarn Swift to Roll a Ball of Yarn from a Skein

When you’re knitting for Christmas one thing can happenWith lots to think about at this time of year, knitting can feel like a last-minute scramble.Maybe children are returning to school, you’ve family get-togethers to start planning, gifts to put on lists, not to mention your daily routine to fit in too. What can we do to . . .

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Christmas Knitting Mistake to avoid

Knitting abbreviations can look like gobble-de-goopSo many initials, single letters, strings of multiple letters and numbers stuck together. Not to mention the symbols that appear in there too, like brackets, commas, asterisks and hyphens. In many ways as knitters we’re learning a new language. Once we start to understand it, we’ll be reading a shorthand that non-knitters . . .

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Knitting Abbreviations – decipher some gobble-de-goop

You might read knitting patternsBut what does it mean to read your knitting? There aren’t words or runes on the page of your knitting. But you can look at the stitches as letters and learn to understand them as you move across the rows of words. How do the stitches come together as stitch words? How do the rows . . .

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Reading Your Knitting

Repeats can hide in knittingRepeats  are everywhere though. They’re there in knitting in so many ways –  Big and small.  Macro and micro. How do they help us grow as a knitter, and how can we find knitting easier by carefully selecting knitting repeats? So join me in today’s video, where I show you some of the ways . . .

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Knitting Repeats and Why I Love Them