This week on KNITmuch, Cynthia MacDougall has an extraordinary week of yarn reviews looking at Red Heart Chic Sheep and the premium line, An Italian Story! She’ll tell you the important details about Chic Sheep, its beauty and outstanding colors! She continues the week with a post for each of…
The Road to Success Chic Hat we talked about yesterday happens to have a pompom on the top. There are several different ways to make a pompom and a couple different trains of thought about them. As a cat-mom, I usually forgo pompoms on my knitting, because they’re just too…
Talking of blocking yesterday made me think of things that are more difficult to block, hats, for example, need to have a specific shape and not have a line down the length of them. I like to combine steam and wet blocking for things like the Road to Success Chic…
When I blocked the Simple Lace Triangle Shawl we talked about yesterday, it went from this curly crumpled triangular-ish shaped garment to a beautiful shawl. One comment I receive from a lot of people is how perfect my stitches look on knitted garments. Blocking goes a long way to making…
Yesterday we went over the general benefits of Chic Sheep, and today I’ll talk about what I ended up knitting first! From my previous articles lately, you may be able to tell I’m on a shawl kick, so it makes sense that the first thing I’d knit with Chic Sheep…