While looking for free patterns for children’s items that could be knit with Toy Box yarn for yesterday’s post, I discovered an absence of patterns for one project category, namely slippers. So I decided to try knitting some with this bulky, but light and airy self-striping yarn. These quick-to-knit slippers start at…
When a new yarn comes along, like Premier Yarns Toy Box, there hasn’t necessarily been enough time for the yarn producers to make a whole lot of patterns. In addition, with sites like Ravelry.com and YarnSub.com now widely known, yarn producers distribute the yarn with the understanding that there are…
I know that those of us who do swatch do so because we want our finished items to knit to the size and proportion that we’re trying to achieve, and we don’t want to frog back a huge number of stitches. Some of us also swatch to practice new-to-us stitch…
What have you knit with a self-striping bulky yarn that has a barber pole twist to it? Anything for the little ones in your life? This week we’ll be looking at Toy Box, a new kid on the block. This soft yarn is perfect for baby and toddler knits as…
This week, we’ve been looking at ways to use up leftover yarn to make items for the 2018 holidays, and some of these projects are well suitable for other occasions throughout the year. Today’s knitted gift bag is a final addition to the possibilities. Deluxe Worsted Tweed Superwash is an…