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It’s so important to know the properties and benefits of a yarn you’ve never knit with, before you try it for the first time. I hope yesterday’s overview gave you a good idea of what to expect from the very soft and cuddly Couture Jazz yarn! Couture Jazz requires some special equipment; …

Today we’re featuring Couture Jazz yarn from Premier Yarns. The first thing you will notice about this yarn is the sheer size of it. While it’s the perfect yarn for arm knitting, which it is marketed for, you may need some special needles if you’ll knit it. Right in the …

Yesterday, I went over the Fall Berries Shawl pattern and how it looks knit up using Red Heart’s Hopscotch yarn, I wanted to talk about the pitfalls I fell into while working on it. The stitches are not difficult, but the order in which you do the stitches is very important. My …

I’m trying out Red Heart’s Fall Berries Shawl and knitting it using Hopscotch yarn. I know what you’re thinking, this pattern has a textured stitch so why am I using multi-colored yarn?! What is happening?!? No worries my friends because I intentionally chose this pattern to work specifically with Hopscotch yarn. When I …

Hopscotch yarn from Red Heart is the perfect yarn for beginner knitters. It’s easy to work with and there are a lot of colors in just one ball to entice! It has everything a beginner yarn needs, the weight is versatile, low maintenance care, and perfect for pairing with other …

This week we’re looking at Universal Yarn Major. Yesterday, I shared a free beanie hat pattern to knit and today we’ll look at two essential finishes on a hat, the ribbing and pompoms. If you knit a hat from the top down, then you could say that the ribbing is …

Chunky marled yarn makes colorful, warm, and quick-to-knit accessories. This week we’re looking at Universal Yarn Major, a great example of marled yarn. Yesterday’s post covered four practical, free knitting Universal Yarn patterns. Today, I’ve developed a fun design that features a spiral created by textured decreases. This beanie is …

This week we’re looking at a soft, quick-to-knit, squishy yarn called Major, by Universal Yarn. Yesterday, I shared what happened when I washed the yarn by machine and by hand. Today we look at some free knitting patterns. I’m a designer, and usually I can’t turn my brain off when …

This week we continue to look at Major by Universal Yarn, see Major yarn’s characteristics in yesterday’s post. This 100% acrylic yarn can be washed in cool water and dried at a cool setting, but today I weigh in on whether or not it’s a good idea to wash all …

Welcome back! This week we’re looking at the qualities of Major, a soft, bulky yarn by Universal Yarn and its strongest attributes. These should make any knitter excited about casting on with it. Major is a bulky weight yarn that knits up at around 15 stitches to 4″ [10cm]. The …

The pattern I chose to go over with you using Soft yarn by Red Heart is the Two-Pointed Hat pattern. I think this pattern has an interesting shape and there’s space to play with the techniques if you wanted to color outside the lines a little bit. It’s also a quick hat …

Our yarn this week is Soft by Red Heart. I’m continually impressed by the range of high-quality yarn produced by Red Heart and Soft is no exception. Made from 100% acrylic, it has 256yd [234m] in one ball. My favorite care instructions; machine wash and dry. Now, let’s really get …

All week, I’ve been working with and reviewing Alpaculence, a singles yarn in a light fingering weight, that has fiber content of 76% acrylic, 9% wool, 9% alpaca, and 6% glitter. It also has long spans of (usually 4) colors that repeat several times in every 100 gram ball. There …

Alpaculence is a light fingering weight yarn. Cynthia MacDougall has researched some patterns that would showcase this blend of acrylic, wool, alpaca and glitter.

This week we’re reviewing Alpaculence, a singles yarn made by Rozetti Yarns. Monday we learned that the yarn I’m sampling this week is in “pre-production mode,” and yesterday we learned that my stockinette stitch sample skewed from a square into a parallelogram. That led to a discussion about balance in …