Tag: handknits
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It’s time to embrace the mistakes in our knitting
Whenever I teach a beginners knitting class – and I teach a lot of them – I always start off by saying a few things. And one of those things is this: You will make mistakes. All the time. Even after years of knitting. And it’s the truth. I still, even now, after 30 years…
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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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Team toe up: why knitting socks toe up is the best
Before I started knitting socks, I had absolutely no idea how on earth people managed to do it. I couldn’t get my head around the construction at all. Heels, in particular, baffled me. And it turns out that there are very many ways to knit a sock, and that indeed many of those ways have…
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THe story of the Beatrice shawl
The lace and stocking stitch Beatrice shawl pattern may have just launched, but technically, its goes back to 1997. I’d just moved back to the UK after a stint in Australia, and I started at a new school. Which was where I met the friend after whom the Beatrice shawl is named. But I can’t…