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3 reasons to knit with baby yarn

I know this is baby week and all the posts are supposed to be about babies. If you’re anything like me, and don’t have children or currently know people with small children, then you don’t really understand why everyone is all about knitting baby things. There are several good reasons…

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5 attributes of Red Heart’s Baby Yarns

The three yarns I’m reviewing this week are all ideal for baby projects, but set side by side they’re very different. I’ve managed to list five different attributes: texture, weight, fiber composition, color choices and ideal projects. Texture In terms of texture, these three baby yarns could not be more…

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3 yarns perfect for baby

Welcome to baby week here on KNITmuch, as I go over 3 yarns perfect for baby: Red Heart’s Soft Baby Steps, Comfort Sport and we’ll revisit Cutie Pie yarn. Here’s a general overview of these three yarns, I’ll link back to the Cutie Pie articles since we have already talked…

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Knitting your Uptown Worsted cushion cover

If you’ve been reading along with us this week on KNITmuch, you’ll know we’ve been starting on a cushion cover project for the home, using Universal Yarn Uptown Worsted yarn in Sapphire colorway. In December we introduced some project options for the Uptown Worsted yarn, which is a versatile 100%…

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Try this ribbing to edge your knitted sweaters

Today we continue our exploration of ways to change a stitch pattern. Yesterday we looked at inserting a column of garter st to create a neatly reversible and almost mirror image stitch pattern. Today, we’ll try adding a column of knit stitches between each pattern repeat to create a ribbing…

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