Do you leave Christmas knitting to the last minute? Whether you’ve been knitting gifts for the last 12 months, or whether you’re starting to knit now, there is more than enough time to get some gifts off your needles. The moment of seeing that clock is ticking, that you’re crossing days off the calendar in your mind, . . .

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3 tips: Planning Your Gift Knitting for Christmas

Starting to knit for Christmas already?It’s a great time for it, the festive vibes are beginning to show. Dark evenings, colder days, crisp leaves falling from the trees.  Not to mention the nudges from grocery shops to stock up your food cupboards and mix your Christmas puddings so you’re ready for the festive season. It’s coming, only . . .

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Revealing the October Knitting Kit Of The Month

Slipping stitches in knitting can be fun!And even more fun with 2 colours. There is no need for fair isle or intarsia knitting skills, when you’re slipping stitches. All you need to remember is how to slip a stitch from one needle to the next. As long as you’ve done the knit stitch and the purl stitch, . . .

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Slipping Stitches in Knitting With 2 Colours

When you’re joining a knit-along you’ll need yarnBut which one? Can you find the yarn that the pattern requires, or will you need to get a substitute? This will depend on where you live, how close you are to a yarn shop, which stores will deliver to your address. So many things can make a difference.And . . .

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Substituting Yarn For A Knit-Along

You might ask ‘why join?’, if you’ve seen a knit-along near you.It’s a great question, because the benefit is usually hidden inside the knit-along community. You won’t know until you’re part of one too.I’m going to share some of the answers to that question today, so you can peek inside and find out what all . . .

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Join A Knit-Along To Help Your Knitting