Join me live on Sunday 24th May 2020 to dive into a Q&A about selling your knits for profit. I’ll give you some top tips on how you can get started. It’s got to start with some decisions, and I’ll help you figure that out. You can also ask me questions in the live chat […]
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Increasing can be done in so many ways when you’re knitting. This is yet another… and it’s actually two methods that I’m sharing with you today! Each technique gives different effects, this one being useful for mirroring your increases with what is known as a bar increase. Today I’m sharing with you the conventional method […]
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Purl 2 together through back loop That doesn’t sounds too difficult! When you start decreasing more frequently, you’re likely to see decreasing abbreviations on every row, not just every knit row. You’ll more likely find p2tog and p2tog tbl if you’re knitting on single-pointed needles as the designer will use all options available to achieve […]
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This decreasing jargon appears once you begin to decrease more often in patterns. k2tog, knit two together, is a very common decreasing tool, and beginner knitters will likely see this as a first look at abbreviations when knitting up patterns. The next steps will be varied and many. It will entirely depend on the designer’s […]
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Beginner Knitters 101 , Odds and Ends , Yoga For Knitters
Once you’ve started knitting you’ll be loving every stitch. While that love builds and you become giddy and excited for every time you pick up your needles, there are a couple of things you need to take care to nurture, not just your yarn and needles. You may have started running or begun yoga as […]
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Odds and Ends , Yoga For Knitters
Knitters hands are their most important commodity. we struggle if ever there’s a problem with the skin or nails, the joints or muscles. So let’s take care of them today. I’ve got multiple ways you can take care of your hands skin and nails daily, to support your knitting and help you knit for a […]
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Beginner Knitters 101 , Knitting Tips and Tricks
When you’re knitting a large item there’s going to be one thing that’s pretty much guaranteed. You’ll be using more than one ball of yarn. And that means working out how to switch from one ball to another. Do you simply tie a knot and keep knitting? Or is this process a lot more complicated? Last […]
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Knitting Basics , Knitting Tips and Tricks , Odds and Ends
Creating stripes as you knit can be done in many ways, not least with stripey yarn! But if you have two balls of yarn that you’d like to stripe, this is the tutorial for you. I’ll help you switch between two colours of yarn as soon as you’ve knitted a few rows to begin. The […]
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Whether you’re in the mood to start decluttering craft supplies throughout your house, or just want to focus on your yarn, I have some tips for you to store your yarn in various ways. I’ll go through sorting and storing your yarn first. Because we all organise in different ways I’ve got lots of ideas […]
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What you knit in the next few months will likely depend on a couple of things: how much yarn you can get your knitty hands on and how much of each type, weight, fibre etc. you can find. So let’s be prepared and figure out some plans to knit items of all sizes, depending […]
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