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My Secret Trick for Vanilla Latte Socks: A Fish Lips Kiss Heel!

I’m writing this post to share one of my favorite variegated sock yarn patterns: Vanilla Latte Socks by Virginia Rose-Jeanes.  This free…

What’s Better: Wood or Metal Knitting Needles?

A common question I get from new knitters is advice on what type of knitting needles to buy: wood or metal. I strongly recommend that…

Knitting Quick Tip: Picking Up Stitches on Long Edges

I’m working on a cool log cabin style blanket right now that is constructed by knitting a square in the center and then…

Do you row out? Or do you knit like a master?

As you know, I’m a huge fan of Craftsy!  It’s actually a little sad for me, because I basically have all…

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Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off

Gotta try this out on my toe-up socks to fix the serious BO problem! http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/FEATjssbo.php…

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Awesome! Techknitting does it again!

I just ran across this post on TECHknitting about how to avoid that hole at the top of the heel on your sock. This also…

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Blocking Delphine

I finished up the back of Delphine and now it’s on the blocking board. I was pleased with how much it stretched out…

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Experimental Swatching

So, we all know my love for swatching for gauge (said with sarcasm), but this morning I was forced to knit a swatch to test…

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Sore fingers

Last week-ish TECHknitting posted a cool article about how to stop stabbing your right pointer finger with your left needle while you knit (resulting…

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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…