I fell in love with mosaic patterns when I started experimenting with the technique a couple of months ago, so of course I had to see what patterns are out there using this easy but amazing colorwork method. Be prepared for gorgeousness. Seriously. If you’re not familiar with mosaic knitting, I included an overview in […]
Tunisian Double Seed Stitch Charity Block
After learning (and falling in love with) Tunisian simple stitch, I decided to try one of TL Yarn Crafts’ other video tutorials to learn a new stitch pattern. I followed the fourth video to learn the double seed stitch (the video is actually for making a coaster, but I adjusted the number of stitches, and […]
Childhood Knitting
We all have our beginnings with yarn. Everyone has a story, a memory of the first time they held yarn in their hands, the first stitches, the first person who showed them something wonderful. I want to share some of my memories with you. I’d love to hear your memories as well. Leave comments below […]
Tunisian Simple Stitch Charity Block
I’ve said a few times how much I’ve wanted to learn Tunisian crochet. I saw it in photos on Instagram a year or so ago and was mind-blown that this thing existed, something that looked like an incredible blend of knitting and crochet. I put it immediately on my to-learn list, but it took a […]
Yarn-Crafting for Charity
What I love most about our yarn-crafting community is how so many people want to get involved and give back with their knitting/crocheting, and also how many opportunities there are to do that. And if they can’t find opportunities to give back, they make new ways and invite other knitters/crocheters to join them. I love […]
Charity Block #10: Mosaic
I love colorwork, but it’s really hard to knit with small children. I get about three stitches in before one of them sits on me and whatever I’m knitting. (I had to knit my brioche projects after they were in bed.) Enter mosaic knitting, which is a fun and easy method of colorwork and my […]
Guest Interview: TL Yarn Crafts
I’m so excited to feature the amazing Toni, the crochet genius from TL Yarn Crafts. She’s one of the few crochet designers who also designs in Tunisian crochet (she has tutorials as well), which you may know I’ve been dying to try. (It was one of my long-term goals last year; it’s on my short-term […]
Eva Lynn Hat
If you could only knit with one yarn weight for the rest of your life, what would you choose? I love variety (fortunately that was a rhetorical question), but I always come back to worsted weight. Even after making my Eva Hat in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, my favorite yarn to work with so far, […]
Fair Isle Patterns
I’m always blown away by colorwork patterns, and most of all by traditional Fair Isle. The rules of Fair Isle are fairly complicated, so here are some great resources from Tin Can Knits if you want to know more (they have some amazing tutorial posts, by the way): how to knit Fair Isle and Fair […]
Eva Hat
This hat was a long time coming. I’ve had the Eva Scarf for over ten years, my favorite scarf for spring and fall. I’ve been wanting a matching hat for ages, but the math to get the lace pattern to work out across the right number of stitches was too intimidating. But it was worth […]