Red HeartSoft Essentials is one of your foundation yarns. It’s good for 90% of projects and comes in all your basic colors. Soft Essentials can be one of the building block yarns that make sure you can knit anything from your stash. The first thing I...
This week, we’ve been knitting with and talking about Bamboo Pop Dots. I think it’s a great yarn to work with several variations of brioche knitting because, as we saw yesterday, the yarn gives definition to textured stitches. Since we’ve explored pattern hunting and we’ve seen the yarn...
Many knitters shy away from lacy baby knits because they are worried about little toes and fingers getting caught, or they don’t care for the traditional frilly look characteristic of so many blankets or trousseau pieces. While the patterns I shared with you yesterday and the day before...
Speckled or splattered yarns give a lot of character and depth to knits in much the same way tweeds and marled yarns do, but with less intensity. Yesterday we looked at the drape of Bamboo Pop yarn in the context of a collection of patterns. Today we’ll look...
There are a lot of search engines to find knitting patterns, but today I want to show you a feature on Ravelry you may not know about to help you find patterns you can make with any yarn, in this case, Bamboo Pop and the Dots colorways. ...