Knitting with Italian DK weight superwash merino called Dona by Fibra Natura, this week has been a great experience. I love this wool. But to really test it’s worth, I tried it with fair isle knitting and made this swatch. And Dona didn’t disappoint. While I was knitting this swatch…
I love bobbins. Any shape, any size, any color, made of any material. I even use gift cards that have nothing left on them and cut my own custom bobbins. For color work, they’re an essential tool that should be in every knitter’s toolkit. Even though I have several different…
Today we continue to explore ways to play with color to spruce up your knitting, using the very soft and warm Dona yarn of Universal Yarns. As I explained earlier this week in my yarn review, Dona yarn is a great alternative to acrylic as it’s 100% superwash merino wool.…
Depending on your first experiences in knitting, on who taught you, on your taste, on your budget, and on a whole lot of other factors, you may find yourself in the “I only knit kid’s sweaters with acrylic” camp, or you may be in the “children can’t be warm in…
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…