Online yarn shopping has become a necessity. Before this year you may have gone to a yarn store in-person sometimes, picked yarn up when you were travelling or on a city break. Maybe you did an occasional online order, but only if you new the yarn was just what you needed. This year isn’t . . .

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How To Pick Yarn When You Can’t Get To A Yarn Store

2020 certainly doesn’t feel like any other year… As far as most of us can remember! But what about the knitting? If you’ve picked up your needles again this year for a distraction, for comfort and to knit for its relaxation benefits, you may be wondering if there’s anything you can knit for Christmas. Knitting . . .

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Christmas Knitting 2020

Don’t we all love some knitting jargon? To knit yarn over doesn’t quite make sense, because you don’t actually knit anything. You just move the yarn. But it’s part of knitting so that’s what we say! The ‘y’ abbreviation doesn’t come up very often in knitting patterns, but it will usually refer to moving the . . .

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How To Knit Yarn Over (YO)

There’s this knitting thing, called tension If this post already sounds a little bit similar to last week’s don’t be surprised… last week we talked about tight knitting. So this week we’re going to the other side of knitting tension – loose knitting. Your knitting stitches might feel uneven if you are a knitter who . . .

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Loose Knitting And How To Fix It

There’s this knitting thing, called tension I’m asking you to get to know it better if you have tight knitting. It can become a headache, a pain, a reason to stop knitting if you let it. But I ask you to stick with me and you’ll find it’s a new friend as you click those . . .

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How To Fix Tight Knitting