Mosaic Knitting Patterns: How to Add Glorious Color
With mosaic knitting patterns, you can add beautiful color designs to your work Here are 3 fabulous patterns to try
How to Dye Yarn the Frugal & Fun Way
With Kool-Aid, hot water, and a microwave, you have everything you need to dye your yarn unique colors
These 4 Tips Will Ease Your Knitting Frustrations
If you find knitting frustrating at times, these 4 tips just might help I think we can all agree that knitting, while fun, can occasionally be frustrating. Have you ever struggled with a cast-on that was far too tight? Knitted a flat piece that wouldn’t actually STAY flat? Went crazy with novelty yarn? Bemoaned the…
How to Turn a Stitch Pattern into a Project – the Easy Way
Using the Snuggles Project as an example, let me show you how you can take a stitch pattern and turn it into a project Today, shortly after I featured the Snuggles Project in a recent Knitting Nuggets Newsletter issue, I received the following email: “Just a question. None of the animal blanket patterns state a…
How to Increase and Decrease Knitting to Give Your Project Shape
Learning to increase and decrease will instantly elevate your knitting skills! Do you know how to give your knitting shape? With the basic knitting steps of casting on, knit stitches, purl stitches, and binding off, you can make a fairly wide array of scarves, dishcloths, washcloths, and even blankets. But if you want to knit…
Are You Making One of These 3 Mistakes With Your Yarn?
3 ways to avoid the yarn mistakes that can make your knitting life miserable It’s a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? The very same yarn that brings us knitters such joy and delight can make us miserable. Of course, that’s not really truth. It isn’t the yarn that makes us miserable; it’s the mistakes…