Category: NaBloPoMo
One of the knitting world’s most revered and treasured knitters, Alice Starmore is known as a master of Fair Isle knitting. Her books feature amazing and mind-boggling motifs that inspire and challenge knitters around the world. Last year, her Book of Fair Isle Knitting was reprinted in a paper back version, and it’s a must have for any colorwork enthusiast. {read more}
1 CommentKnitting stranded colorwork patterns can result in a fabric that is eye-catchingly gorgeous. Managing all the yarns, however, can be an incredible nightmare. While the front looks all nice and pretty, the inside can be such a mess.
The key to keeping the wrong side relatively neat and orderly is to wrap up the long strands, or floats, along the back side. That way they’ll be less likely to snag, and you’ll make sure you’re not pulling the yarn too tight when you begin to knit with it again. Pulling the floats too tight can make the fabric pucker and mess with gauge. {read more}
1 CommentIn a recent issue of Elle, they had a “look book” of designer fashions inspired by Fair Isle knitting. Since then, I’ve been seeing stranded colorwork, or prints that look like stranded colorwork, pop up all over the fashion pages. {read more}
2 CommentsAnother Friday, this one a bit more exhausted than the last, thanks to a midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If that’s your sort of thing, I highly recommend it!
Enjoy this dose of Friday Finds, and be sure to let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see here! {read more}
4 CommentsIt’s no secret that I love socks, right? Before I started knitting socks, I had quite the collection of seemingly wacky store-bought socks. What’s most amazing about this is that I used to hate wearing things on my feet—shoes, socks, flip flops, whatever, just let me go barefoot. I’ve changed my stance on this quite a bit since moving to Colorado and learning to knit, obviously.
Around the time that I first started knitting socks, I noticed a new sock designer sharing designs frequently in the Sock Knitters Anonymous group on Ravelry. Jeannie Cartmel’s sock designs are eye-catching and entrancing, eliciting reactions that range from “oooh neat” to “how the heck did she do that?” {read more}
2 CommentsSee today’s Wordless Wednesday photo at the blog.
2 CommentsYou know the drill: Imagine that you’re about to be stranded on a deserted island. Thankfully, this island has sheep, and we’re going to imagine that you know how to shear sheep and process a fleece and make a spinning wheel and knitting needles or crochet hooks out of palm trees. And maybe you even know how to use the native plants to dye your yarn. Just go with it, okay? However, all you can bring with you is the aforementioned knowledge and three books of the crafting variety. Which do you choose? {read more}
4 CommentsAbout this time last year, I published my Parallel Lines pattern. Quite a few people added it to their Ravelry queues—not too many people have actually knit it. Not to worry, I know all about adding things to one’s queue and then sort of… forgetting about them? I have almost 500 things in my queue (the new Twist Collective certainly did me no favors); I may get around to knitting half of them in my lifetime.
Anyway, around the time that I published the pattern, I also made mention of doing a tutorial on how to do the left twisting stitches. So here we are, a year later (sorry about that), with a tutorial on how to work a left-leaning twisted stitch pattern. {read more}
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