Knitting Bucket List Challenge: the Fan Sweater
After posting a recent article – one of what I’ve been calling “Knitting Bucket List Challenges” – I received a heartfelt and delightful tale of a very personal and creative bucket list item.
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How to Knit Afghans with Cables, Featuring 5 Patterns & 10 Tutorials
Would you love to knit a beautiful afghan with cables but find the thought intimidating? You’ll learn all you need to know with this guide Have you found cable knitting intimidating? Do you find it intimidating still? What about a larger project with cables… like an afghan? A few years ago, a reader named Lisa…
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Learn about the Magical Art of Magic Loop Knitting
Circular knitting gets magical with these tutorials for Magic Loop Knitting Let’s talk, briefly, about one of the more frustrating things about knitting in the round: dealing with wayward needles. For instance, when you knit in the round with DPNs, it’s easy to drop a needle or–worse–lose a needle. When you knit with circular needles…
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One Remarkable Way to Knit in the Round: Use 2 Circular Needles
Want to know more about knitting on two circular needles? Check out these handy tutorials! Do you want to learn to knit in the round, but worry you’ll poke your eye out with all those points sticking out from double-pointed needles (DPNs)? Using DPNs was my own introduction to circular knitting. Sure, it was fiddly…
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Here’s How to Knit with Circular Needles both Flat and in the Round
Do you struggle with double-pointed needles (DPNs)? You can knit just about anything and in almost any way with circular needles If you hate seaming your knitting, you may have considered learning how to knit in the round, a process also referred to as circular knitting. According to my email, many knitters would love to…
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5 Tips to Make Knitting with DPNs Easier
Gather ’round for these tips (collected from years of experience and mistakes) in using DPNs I am a big, big fan of knitting tutorials. So much so that I have a whole section on this site devoted to the care and feeding of tutorials. Er, that is, I have a whole section of tutorial collections….
