Please tell me that I’m not the only knitter who hates taking her measurements? I find it so depressing. I also hate those little perfect-hourglass stick-figure illustrations they always use to…
Genius! Free-Sole Socks
I woke up to a cool email today from Knitting Daily talking about something I have never heard of before, but am totally in love with: Free-Sole Socks. These are…
Just Two Things
See, I said I’d be back! Two quick notes for today, then I shall disappear again: 1. Great article in Knitting Daily today about ergonomics for knitters that shows some stretches…
Fancy Heel Stitches
Today’s Knitting Daily blog has some fun ideas for dressing up the heel flap of your socks. My favorite heel flap is just the plain slip-stitch heel, but today’s blog…
pinstripe pullover gallery
I hope to knit the dainty pinstripe pullover from the Winter 2008 Interweave Knits the next time I allow myself to buy yarn for a new project. This week Knitting…
Lace Lifelines
Today’s Knitting Daily has some great tips from putting lifelines in your lace knitting: http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2008/12/05/my-lace-scarf-and-a-free-project.aspx Consider this archived.
Grafting
A tip from today’s Knitting Daily: how to graft kitchener-style on the needles. http://www.knittingdaily.com/posts/legwear/306-1.html stored away for future use…
A tip on not screwing up….
Here is a helpful excerpt from today’s Knitting Daily on not making stupid mistakes following your pattern: Lesson Number One: Prepare for bouts of brain-out-the-window knitting ahead of time. Read…
The game plan
OK, so I now have the rest of my Cascade 220 to finish up Bluebell, and I’m also chugging right along on Sheldina. I haven’t even started on Roxy’s bed…
Mags Kandis on Color
I thought this excerpt from Monday’s Knitting Daily might be helpful in the future when I am trying to pick colors for future projects. Here, Mags Kandis provides an exercise…