How to Substitute Yarn in a Knitting Pattern in 4 Easy Steps
No, you don’t have to use that super-pricey yarn for your next project! Learn how to substitute yarn in a knitting pattern and save a lot of money.
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What You Should Know about Darn Good Yarn of the Month
My review of the Darn Good Yarn of the Month subscription club Note: the following includes affiliate links. If you order anything after clicking one of these links, I may receive compensation. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy. Thanks for helping to support my site! Back in May, I decided to try the…
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How to Fight Knitting Boredom
Does knitting ever make your eyes glaze over? It can happen to the best of us! Here are tips for overcoming knitting boredom “[What] bothers me a little is that I make the same patterns over and over, [both] because I know them by heart and because they are easy. I’d like to learn some…
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You Can Finish a Knitting Project So Quickly When You Actively Drop Stitches
These 9 drop stitch knitting patterns will show you the magic of dropping stitches — on purpose! The first time I discovered the magic of dropped stitches was when I was knitting a Phoenix Tears scarf for my younger sister. Like many of the patterns I knitted within my first two years of knitting, this…
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6 Free Lovely Lacy Knitting Patterns to Overcome Summertime Heat
Find the heat stifling? Try one of these 6 adorable free knitting patterns for summer shirts to help keep you cool Once upon a time, it was a hot Oklahoma summer. (This is terribly redundant, because I don’t believe there’s a such thing as a not-hot Oklahoma summer. 😂) Anyway, a few years ago, during…
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The Surprising Way You Can Increase Your Knitting Speed
Is the way you hold your yarn and needles holding you back? You can increase your knitting speed through a different knitting style
