The ‘ply’ of a yarn is something that most knitters know exists, but what is it for? The multiple strands twisted together are obviously ...

When you're buying new yarn the world is your oyster, you can pick out patterns from Ravelry, from your local yarn store, from Rowan's ...

Choosing yarns for knitting can be great fun, and that fun increasing when the yarns do amazing things when you’re only knitting plain knit ...

You’ve started to knit! High five! But there’s one point that might feel like a hurdle. If you don’t understand the yarn that you’re ...

Last week we took a look at worsted yarn and found out exactly why it’s called worsted and what worsted means. We’re going to ...

There are lots of terms in knitting that we recognise in every day life. Then there are those that confuse us as we’ve never ...