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New yarn: Red Heart’s Scrubby Sparkle

We covered Red Heart’s Scrubby for one fun week last year in May, but Red Heart has gone and made it better. I’m so pleased to have a chance to play with their new edition of the Scrubby yarn, Scrubby Sparkle, and give you a sneak preview of this very…

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Twilight knitted hat pattern

Twilight Should Sparkle This is my absolute favorite Twilight knitted hat pattern; I’ll warn you that it’s plain, but that is the whole reason I invented it. When looking around for a really good hat pattern, they were all quite elaborate. There was always some kind of design function that…

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Arm Knitting Technique

Knitting without Needles I really love doing technique posts and for this one I decided to learn something new and pass it on; arm knitting! When I tell people I knit there are a variety of different responses I get, but more and more frequently I’ve had people say they…

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Red Heart Boutique yarns from Twilight to Infinity!

This week I’m test-driving two Red Heart Boutique yarns: Infinity and Twilight. At first glance they look very similar, but after working with them I realized they were very different. The fiber content and construction are diverse but they both have the metallic strand running through them, which gives them…

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