This guide explores the benefits and best practices for republishing your knitting patterns with these 7 steps .
Whether you’re a seasoned yarn festival-goer or a first-time attendee, here are some hints and tips to help make the most of your festival experience.
Top tips to help you create beautiful fairisle or stranded knitting.
Mastering these techniques will unlock a whole new level of creativity and confidence in your craft.
4 free projects for swift gift knitting: First in a series fun and relatively quick festive makes, so you can enjoy some crafty goodness over the season without getting overwhelmed.
Make sure your next project makes you heart sing rather than sigh.
Ho to get set up with magic loop plus make an invisible join to get started knitting in the round.
Every knitter needs a basic repertoire of staple cast ons, and in this series of tutorials I’ve curated a selection of 7 workhorse cast ons that you’ll use time after time.
Learning this picot cast off will add another string to your knitterly bow, and enable you to successfully add your own personal touch to projects, and get a great finish.
Reading knitting patterns can be challenging and it only gets easier with practise, so don't feel intimidated. Even experienced knitters can find some instructions tricky to decipher…
This post aims to help demystify knitting charts and equip you with the basics of how to read them.
Simple ways to put you own stamp on your knits, using mu Kitchen Garden Tunic as an example.
Managing your yarn stash: Autumn is a great time for taking stock and planning what projects you need to finish or start before the end of the year
What do all the brackets mean in knitting patterns? Parentheses and brackets - that's round ( ) and square [ ] brackets in plain speak - can be a source of great confusion for many knitters…
One thing I often hear from knitters, whether complete newbies or 'old hands', is that that they sometimes struggle with following knitting patterns. If this is an area that has proved difficult for you too then read on…..
If you are new to writing knitting patterns for your hand knitted creations, these 6 tips will help set you on the right path.
Casting on a large number of stitches can make many a knitter's heart sink, so here I'm sharing a top tip for taking the pain out of this process.
How do you go about choosing the yarn that's going to work best for your project?
Many knitters skip the vital stage of swatching their tension (guage) - here are the why’s and how’s of measuring tension
More free knitterly goodies available to download on the Free Resources page
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PDF mini course to equip you with a great repertoire of different cast ons for achieving a great finish every time
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Blossom Mitts knitting pattern
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Beaded bauble knitting pattern
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Tutorial: how to knitting read charts - the basics.
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Downloadable PDF - Handy guide to choosing the best length circular needle for your projects
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A4 Printable Knitter’s proportional graph paper.
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Intarsia Bag Knitting Pattern
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This post demystifies circular needles, how these are measured and what is the best length to use for your project.