Spinzilla 2014 – day 2
Day 2! I, ahhh, didn’t make as much progress today. I was a bad spinner. I have excuses.. (Well, you see, there was this knit class that I’d already […]
Spinzilla 2014 – day 1
Today was Day 1 of Spinzilla 2014 and I might have set my alarm early so I could get some spinning time this morning. I just might have. I told […]
Wine Bottle Cozy – A chart for working in the round
Free Knit pattern! A wine bottle cozy makes your old bottle pretty and decorative. Comes with a free chart reading tutorial.
Reading Charts for Rounds and Repeats
Previous Post in This Series: Working with a Few Easy Charts – A Place to Begin What’s in this post: – Working with charts for knitting in-the-round – Handling charts that get repeated – How […]
Getting Ready for Spinzilla 2014
Next week is Spinzilla. I know, you’ve been waiting. Me too. You’ve been stalking the event blog and everywhere else on the web for tips on production spinning so that you […]
Really Big Nupps
As I might have mentioned before, my official WIP these days is the Mary Lennox shawl. Its a circular shawl that was published as a mystery Knit-A-Long on ravelry. The […]
Arrow Head Lace – Using Charts as a Pattern
Free pattern! This Arrow Head Lace Headband is a fast knit and a great way to practice you chart reading skills.
Working with a Few Easy Charts – A Place to Begin
Previous Post in This Series: Getting Past A Fear of Charts What’s in this post: – The basics of reading charts for flat knitting – Explanation of a few common symbols […]
Drive By Post – A wee bit of yarn bombing
Just a short post today as I should be getting ready for my knitting class. But I wanted to share the two little yarn bombs that went off last night […]
Getting Past A Fear of Charts
This week in my stitch clinics I’m starting a short series on using charts in knitting. As a knit and crochet instructor, resistance to charts is something I see over […]