Summer just changed into Fall last week. This might be sad for some, but it makes me excited for the cooler weather. It’s also time to start thinking about planning for the holidays. Knitting on a deadline always makes me want to procrastinate, but I have learned several coping mechanisms…
Happy Monday, knitting readers! This week on the KNITmuch blog, we’re going to take you on a tour of different stitch patterns and the kinds of ways they can come in handy especially how neaten up your edges with some knitting basics. In today’s post, we’re looking at knitted stitches…
In Monday’s post, one of the tips for knitting for babies was to make sure the buttons were sewn on securely. You don’t want to have one of the cutest, and irreplaceable, sweater buttons get pulled off and lost; or worse swallowed. Use these tips for button sewing and placement…
The very first thing that ran through my mind when I opened Red Heart’s Cutie Pie yarn was ‘omg soft.’ It wasn’t in a clear enunciated way either; it was in that muffled way that only truly soft yarn would be able to invoke. The texture of this yarn takes…
We talked about stitch markers here on the KNITmuch blog, but today we’re going to take a moment to extol the virtues of stitch holders. These little life-savers aren’t hard to use, but we tend to use them while making slightly more advanced projects, so as you progress in your…