tips

Tuesday’s Tips …

Here’s another week of tips for all you knitters out there. I’m still looking for any tips you might have! Feel free to either email them to me (mrhugzzz@gmail.com) or leave them as a comment on any of the posts (Tuesday’s Tips would be the easiest I think). Here we go for this week … Purl instead – A lot of people prefer making the knit stitch over the purl stitch. I agree it may be a little easier, but the purl stitch get a bad rap I think. If you want more practice with the purl stitch, use […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

Welcome to another edition of Tuesday’s Tips. This weeks tips are all about yarn and yarn substitution in your patterns. Here we go … Go by Yardage – Or mostly in these days, meters. Knowledge is getting better and better everyday, so a lot of people now know that weight is not the way to decide how much yarn you need. 50 grams of wool is not the same as 50g of cotton, or mohair, or silk. Heck 50 grams of wool may not be the same as 50 grams of wool! Check the yardage on the ball when […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

Here we are with another six tips to help you improve your knitting … Swatch it – If you’re like me, you have a few yarns or weights of yarns that you like to use a lot. In order to save you time in the future, you could make a few swatches with that yarn in the recommended needle size and maybe one on either side of it as well in stocking stitch. This way you’ll know what your gauge is in stocking stitch in that yarn with specific needles. Next time you’re doing a pattern with that yarn […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

Yikes, I almost missed this post. With yesterday being Thanksgiving here in Canada, today felt like a Monday rather than a Tuesday. So I guess the first tip for this week is to check your calendar when you wake up – especially the day after a holiday! At least, I should … So then, here are the tips for this week. And keeping with Thanksgiving, I have gotten each tip from someone else and am now giving acknowledgment and thanks to them and for their tip (even if they didn’t know ). Twist and Tie – I consider the […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

This week’s tips is all about color. I hope you’re not surprised as we’re exploring color right now and will be for the next coupe of weeks (lots to explore). So in a few posts now I’ve mentioned using nature to pick your color palette for you. Well, you might ask exactly where … here are some suggestions for you. Blues – the sky during the day and leading up to about an hour before sunset. Then, after sunset, for the deeper shades of blue. Also the ocean, as long as it’s not shallow water. Shallower water tends to […]