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From the second I saw the Hotness Top I thought it would be an excellent top to summer-ify with Red Heart’s Creme de la Creme cotton yarn. This top would be a perfect knitted to the pattern or as a bathing suit cover up, if you elongated the torso and used…

Casting on is one of the most crucial skills a knitter will learn, and the backwards loop cast on is one of the most versatile cast ons there is. It can be used as a very basic, beginner’s cast on or as a technique to cast off stitches in the…

Today we’re going over Red Heart’s Strata yarn; it might be bulky, but it’s the perfect yarn for knitting during the summer months. With lots of fun summery colors and a very light feel, it’s smooth on the skin, very much like a t-shirt would feel. There are a whole…

As knitters, we have all been put upon by someone for knitted goods. They see you knitting a pair of socks and ask you to make them a pair, or see something you have knit yourself and decided that they would like one too. I usually just tell people that…

Since I’m an indie dyer, I like to think I have some inside information on dye lots. There are a couple of trains of thought in regards to dye lots and matching up yarn. You can use the dye lot number to match up different skeins of the same color for…