Tutorials & help with knitting.
Check out my my Youtube channel for more video tutorials in knitting, crochet, and sewing. Increases in knitting. I show KFB (knit front & back), which is the increase I use when working the gusset portion of the Butt Knits longies & shorties patterns. I also show how to work...
I managed a little bit of quiet time here at the micro-farm and have added a few new video tutorials to my Youtube channel. The long tail cast on is probably the most common cast on method in knitting. It is the cast on method I use for all of...
When I saw these on Ravelry I just had to share! Jessica (naturallyknitty on Ravelry) did a fantastic job combining the Butt Knits Basic Longies pattern with the chart from the free HP House Fair Isle Pouch Bags pattern. The bag pattern includes charts for all four Hogwarts houses. Great job Jessica and thank...
Every now and then the desire to dye wool yarn hits me. So far I have not invested in professional dyes. I use food coloring and/or unsweetened drink mix (ie: Kool-Aid). This time I used 5 packets of Kool-Aid pink lemonade and 2 packets of cherry flavor. I dyed a hank of Knit Picks...
When I’m working on a cable insertion I can, at times, lose my place in the cable. Having five young children and homeschooling, etc, I often have to work on my knitting in spurts of just a few minutes. If I’m working on a complex cable pattern, then I use a chart keeper and...
*This post taken from my old blog. Original writing July 2008. Sometimes during those first few rounds or rows of knitting on a new project it can be confusing which yarn is the working yarn and which yarn is the tail yarn. I find it helpful to use one of the plastic bread bag...
*This post taken from my old blog. Original writing July 2008. You know that really ugly tie you wish your main man didn’t have? Well here’s an excellent way to put it to good use while ensuring that he will not be wearing it ever again. OK, seriously, you can use any tie. Even...
*This post taken from my old blog. Original writing August 2008. I thought I would share with you how I tackle the dreaded frogging. Frogging of course is when you realize that something in your project has gone so horribly wrong that the only thing you can do to fix it is to rip...
