A soft cotton and cashmere blend makes a clever cabled chemo cap. This post covers finding the right needle size and trying a textured dress scarf and an openwork lace panel. It also covers knitting a soft cap with a cable trick that skips row-counting entirely. Meet the yarn This …
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Hand-dyeing wool yarn opens up a whole world of color, and there’s more than one way to do it. This post covers three approachable techniques. A snow-dyeing method gives a variegated, random look. Warp painting creates graduated stripes, and kettle dyeing produces smooth, even color. It also covers the basic …
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A pair of superwash yarns gets put through their paces in this week-long project. This post covers what makes superwash yarn special and why swatching matters more than the ball band suggests. It also covers choosing colors with intention and picking up a few tricks for intarsia knitting along the …
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A self-striping cotton yarn turns a winter pullover pattern into a breezy cardigan in this five-part conversion project. This post covers picking the right base pattern and swatching for fit and washability. It also covers matching stripes across new balls of yarn, then joining the pieces with a three-needle bind-off. …
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Soft, antipilling acrylic self-striping yarn will make easy work of turning the three suggested free patterns into gorgeous pieces! Bonus: a pattern for a beret knitted with short rows and a ripple stitch blankie! Let’s go! Free patterns to try Three free downloadable patterns pair the self-striping yarn with a …