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I love fingerless gloves, and I love stash-busting patterns, so there’s no doubt I’m smitten with the Stash-o-motastic Fingerless Glove pattern offered by Donna Herron, aka purl3agony.
These cuties regularly switch colors and stitch patterns, which adds texture as well … Read More...
The other day my little one and I were talking about the things she needs to be ready for winter. She needs a new raincoat, I said (the 18-24 month one she has just doesn’t work now that she’s three), … Read More...
If you’re looking for some almost-last-minute Halloween decor for your home, check out this creepy Shrunken Head pattern from Craft Foxes. I love the way they’ve styled it with button eyes and frizzy hair.
Of course putting it in a … Read More...
If you’re still looking to craft something creepy for Halloween, you’re almost out of time, but you probably still have time to knit the Witchy Hands from Lion Brand Yarn if you’re quick about it.
They’re worked in Vanna’s Choice, … Read More...
This week we have three big winners for the After this Row PDFs.
Number 18, Jennifer R., says she writes on whatever is handy and was looking forward to trying the system. Commenter 29, Missy K., uses tic marks on … Read More...
Bernat is celebrating a new range of colors in its Waverly by Bernat line and has released a few new patterns to go along with the new colors.
Waverly, if you don’t know about it, is a 100 percent acrylic … Read More...
I am always looking for different ways to store my yarn and regularly go back and forth between wanting to see what I have and wanting it all hidden.
If you’re more of a display type person, this roundup of … Read More...
I’m “on vacation” this week, so it’s taken me this long to get back to the computer and name a winner for last week’s Kollage goodies giveaway. Sorry about that!
The winner is number 122, Maxine, who says she’s a … Read More...
Vogue Knitting’s holiday issue will hit newsstands Nov. 6 (though you can download it now on your iPad), and the fashion preview has just been launched so you can start planning the projects you want to make.
Stories in the … Read More...
It’s the perfect time of year for knitting and wearing arm warmers or fingerless gloves (I had mine on just the other day) and this pattern from Yarnologue is a great quick, easy and colorful choice.
Worked in the round … Read More...
Sometimes you just want a relatively mindless knitting project that is easy but nonetheless pretty and comforting. That’s the Renewal shawl pattern by Helen Bingham in a nutshell.
This pattern, available via free Ravelry download, is a large striped rectangle … Read More...
I know I’m not the only one who has put a knitting project down for much longer than I intended to, thinking that I would remember where I was in the pattern when I got back only to have no … Read More...
The other day I got word that Skein Theory
, the sister publication to The Sock Report, had been released and for some reason I didn’t think to go look at it right away. If you haven’t checked it out … Read More...
Not too long ago I shared with you the pattern for the women’s Go Team Mittens, and Kat at Just Crafty Enough has come back with a men’s version that comes complete with a University of Michigan theme and … Read More...
I really like the look of lace, but I am neither the sort of person who has the time to knit a big, fancy lace project nor the sort of person who would wear such a thing if I did … Read More...
I am so not ready to be thinking about Christmas knitting (or Christmas anything, frankly), but they’re all geared up for the holiday season at Red Heart, where they’re actually offering 12 weeks of holiday-themed patterns. The first pattern came … Read More...
You probably know by now that I’m a pretty big fan of Holla Knits, a web-based collection of cool knits that are shown worked in an indie yarn as well as a yarn by Knit Picks. You can buy the … Read More...
Rowan has a really cute new free knitting pattern for Miranda the Sheep, who is meant to be a celebration of Wool Week 2012 (that’s next week, by the way).
Designed by Janice Anderson, Miranda is a Masham Sheep … Read More...
Comfort Knitting and Crochet: Babies and Toddlers
has been sitting on my bedside table for a few weeks now, waiting to be looked at (it could be I’m a little over baby knitting right now because I’m finishing up my … Read More...
There are a lot of great free knitting patterns out there, but one failing that some of these patterns have (and I’ll admit, all of mine over at About have this problem) is that they are often lacking in schematics, … Read More...