Tag: knitting tips
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6 reasons NOT to learn to knit with super bulky yarn
Over the last few years, there seems to be a new kind of received wisdom amongst beginner knitters – that the best way to learn to knit is with super bulky yarn, and great big 10mm+ needles. The reasoning goes like this: it’s less fiddly, it’s faster, and it’s less frustrating. It’s easier to see…
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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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Well that’s not scary: shawl knitting
Of all the ridiculous misconceptions I’ve had about knitting, perhaps the most ridiculous of all is that knitting a shawl is a really complex thing. Any shawl. Of any kind. Must be tricky. Must have crazy complex increases and decreases to make those shapes, and must be beyond my capabilities. Told you it was ridiculous.…
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Well that’s not scary: Knitting Intarsia
A FEW WEEKS BACK, I ASKED ON INSTAGRAM IF THERE WERE THINGS THAT OTHER KNITTERS FOUND A BIT SCARY. BECAUSE I’VE GOT A THEORY THAT ALL BUT THE MOST CONFIDENT AND CAVALIER OF KNITTERS HAS A SECRET LIST OF THINGS THAT THEY FIND A LITTLE BIT INTIMIDATING. I know I did. I’ve written before about…