Most of us have a memory of shrinking a wool garment accidentally while doing laundry. If you’ve done that, congratulations! You’ve already knitfelted, or “fulled,” your first project. This post contains affiliate links. What is knitfelting or fulling anyway? Wool fibers have small scales. When the project you knit with wool yarn is wet and … Read more
Once I started co-hosting the monthly Knitting Love Link Party with Jessie at Home, and now that the Holiday Stashdown Crochet-a-Long has started, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to add pictures to an inlinkz link party. I decided to share this photo tutorial to help people participate. This post contains affiliate … Read more
I’m sharing the second in interview in this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month series with Miren Torrealday from Ardilanak. Miren is a knitting designer and yarnie who recently opened her own fiber studio (where she also teaches) in the Basque Country (Pais Vasco), Spain. Miren is also a sci fi nerd like me, and a huge … Read more
I’m thrilled to announce the kick off of my fourth annual Hispanic Heritage Month interview series with crocheters and knitters! You can read more about my inspiration for starting the series in 2012 here, or check out my roundups of the 2012 series here, the 2013 series here , and the 2014 series here with … Read more
My favorite projects to knit are hats. And cables. And hats with cables. Oftentimes, cable stitches are worked against reverse stockinette stitches, but for this hat, I decided to try something different – garter stitch. This post contains affiliate links. The yarn for the sample was generously provided by Schachenmayr. First, I tested it all … Read more