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What on earth is sport weight yarn, and what the heck should I knit with it?
In the last few years, there’s one type of yarn that’s been popping up more and more, and which, I’ll admit, baffled the crap out of me at first. And that, as you may expect, is a sport weight. But from my initial position of bafflement and “well, that just seems a bit pointless” I […]
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How to get started knitting with colour
It’s a tale I’ve told many a time; long, long ago, when I was considerably more uptight and concerned with getting things “wrong” than I am now, I was terrified of just about everything. In knitting terms, this equated mostly to being terrified of knitting with colour. And no, I don’t just mean that I […]
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So you want to use a different yarn weight
Of all the things that have the potential to baffle a person about knitting, yarn weight has to be right up there. So many yarns, so many categories, so little cohesion. Yes, there’s a generally agreed framework that people use when talking about yarn weight (which, if we’re honest, is really yarn width, since it’s […]
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Get to know your summer yarns
I know, I know. When most people think about knitting they think of cosy autumnal and wintery scenes, possibly sat in front of a fire, definitely with a big pile of cosy snuggly wool. It’s a craft that screams “cold weather” at you. But knitting isn’t just for winter, I promise you. In fact, summer […]
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Big Jimmy Jab knitalong week 1 – German short rows
One of the things I really love about the Big Jimmy Jab jumper is how sneakily simple it is. I say “sneakily”, because it looks like it’s going to be a bit of a fancy knit, what with that colourwork yoke and all. I’ll talk soon about how the colourwork is actually infinitely easier than […]
The Woolly Badger 