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…
Is the way you hold your yarn and needles holding you back? You can increase your knitting speed through a different knitting style
Frustrated by slow knitting? Here’s encouragement and tips for ways to knit faster “I don’t seem to knit fast enough to do all the things I want to do for charity. I mostly do baby things but I want to do for older kids and for adults too. Need more hands and fast ones too.”…
Is it time to consider donating your yarn? I’ve recently realized that I have actually never donated yarn to anyone. How recently? Um… I sat down to write this article and realized I’ve never donated my yarn. That’s how recently. I wanted to consider what might make folks reluctant to donate their yarn, because that…
Another eternal knitting struggle: the yarn stash. Do you need an intervention? Could you have said any of these in response to “what’s your biggest knitting struggle”? “Getting rid of the huge stash of yarn, too much yarn, not enough hours in the day to knit it all up.” “Knitting down my stash.” “Downsizing my…
Yes, you can manage Startitis and get those multiple WIPs under control I firmly believe that “Startitis” — that is, the desire to cast on for a new project rather than working on something already on the needles — is not a problem. It has benefits. It can help make knitting more enjoyable, because you’re…
