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Color forever …woven fair isle

[Translate] This is the last bit of color work we are going to look at (this time around) and it is another method of doing stranding or fair isle as it is commonly called. Since I mentioned fair isle, yes, you can assume that we will be working with two colors. The concept of weaving your fair isle is actually quite simple, it is the practice that is not that easily learned. Once learned however, you will produce the most stunning fair isle projects that are almost reversible! In regular fair isle, you carry the yarn not being used […]

The “C” Word … and 2 more clues

[Translate] Sorry – I’m not talking commitment! I don’t have a problem with commitment, just saying, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. This is a knitting blog after all! The “C” word we’re talking about is “crochet”. Now before all you knitters hit your back button on your browsers, stick around for a little bit and read a paragraph or two. For some strange reason, a large group of knitters seem to think that crochet is a bad word. It’s like there’s a competition between knitting and crocheting and you can only do one or the other. […]

What have I Done??

[Translate] Well it seems that the craze going around the knitting blogs right now is this survey of what you have/want to/ and will do in the past/present/future. Basically its a long list of things related to knitting. The idea is that you are to copy it and bold the items you’ve done, italicize the ones you plan to do, and leave the rest normal type (the ones you don’t plan on doing). Normally I’m not one for this kind of thing but I thought this would be kind of fun. Its also interesting to see what other people […]