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 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…
This week I’m knitting with Sweet Roll by Premier Yarns. Yesterday, I explored making gradients with this self-striping yarn, and a big swatch. Today I’m sharing a couple of things I learned from swatching that have nothing to do with gauge. I embarked on a project to knit a mitered…
It’s been a busy week here on the KNITmuch blog. We’ve shown all the steps and materials you’ll need for this cushion cover knitted in Uptown Worsted yarn in Sapphire colorway. 100% acrylic yarn is sturdy and easy to care for, so it makes a great choice for home accessory…
This week on KNITmuch, we’re knitting a cushion cover using 4 skeins of Uptown Worsted in lovely Sapphire So far we’ve introduced the project materials, the swatches and gauge requirements, and in yesterday’s post we looked at the instructions for the back piece knitted in stockinette stitch. Today is all…