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shellie wilson

As CraftGossip’s head editor and co-founder AND as a Work-At-Home mum, finding time to work on CraftGossip & Craftbits is very hard limited.

So when I find myself spending endless hours reading through our social media networks like Facebook & Twitter I have to justify my addiction time.

So I am inviting all our readers to come along and follow me on Pinterest (see, now its a work thing).

I have been busy playing working with pinterest over the past few months and pinning my CraftGossip Top Picks as well as some other random boards I created.  I often pin stuff I want to cook for my husband (The Tech guy) or pinning activities I want to do with my children (The Distractors).

If you would like to join me in my new social media  addiction outlet, then come and follow me. The thought of people “Following” me is a little scary so I feel I should include a warning.

Warning: All followers are responsible for their own addictions and directions that pinterest will take them. Proceed with Caution.

Note: To follow just the top picks from CraftGossip, click here (this board will only get the top picks as chosen by me). If you want to follow everything that I pin (really?), then click here.

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  1. Your post really made me chuckle while I was nodding my head in agreement in several places. While I do not currently have a DH or young ones around, I have a middle-aged nephew and a senior-citizen kitty (both Distractors). I loved this! Thanks for the way you made me smile and enjoy being part of the crafting community.

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!