Knitting Tips and Tricks , Scarf Knitting
Sometimes your scarf needs a little something extra. And that’s what you can add with this video tutorial. We’ll be finishing your scarf with a flourish and a fringe! I’ll show you lots of options too, more colours, same colours, more fringe, thinner fringe, all sorts! To subscribe to the Knit With Hannah YouTube channel […]
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Christmas Knitting , Planning Your Knitting
It doesn’t always have to be gifts that you knit for Christmas, there are lots of options. So take a look at your calendar and decide on a theme for the next couple of months. If you create a plan now you’ll have a better chance of reaching the big day with everything finished! To […]
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One particular selling experience changed the way I thought about the value of my knitting. And it helped me raise my prices so I was making real profit in my business, not just pocket money. I’ll go into further depth in the video: To subscribe to the Knit With Hannah YouTube channel click here And […]
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What is the commission strategy? We looked at the other option last week, knitting up stock before you start selling, so now I’m going to help you decide whether only knitting once you have orders might be the best way for you to go. That’s what you might call ‘the commission strategy’. Commissions are well known […]
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‘Should I knit up stock before I start selling?’ I’ve been asked this question a few times and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. To begin with I was asking myself this question too. As a knitter I was also testing patterns as I designed a few for myself and using up stash yarn as […]
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Starting to knit obviously means picking up needles and yarn and starting to knit. But what about motivation, keeping going when other priorities seem to pop up in daily life? And how about finishing projects when it feels like there’s so much more to knit? Beginning a new hobby like knitting, and continuing when you’re […]
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There are a lot of options out there when you’re learning to knit. Fancy stitches, different types of needles, multiple methods to actually put stitches on the needles when you start, could baffle you. I say, let’s keep it easy and as the title of this week’s video suggests… taking it back to basics is […]
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I love going back to basics with any part of my life, my diet, my yoga practice, my capsule wardrobe, and selecting knitting tools for a project is another place where the basics can be incredibly helpful. Even as a knitter of forty years experience, I love going back to the very first techniques that […]
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There will come a point when you start following patterns, where the instructions include a simple sentence such as ‘knit to 10cm’. That sounds easy enough, but let’s get the measuring part accurate. Once you know how it’s done, you’ll know it for life. As I’ll show you in the video, make sure you have […]
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Beginner Knitters 101 , Knitting Tips and Tricks
When I started following patterns and knitting large items, such as jumpers and cardigans, I knew I needed to keep track of my rows somehow. I’d been given a row counter when I was a teen, but I’d never really used it other than testing it out. It was a small, plastic mechanical counter that […]
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