When you’re a knitter, every holiday and birthday is a wonderful opportunity to share your talents with the ones you love. It’s also an exciting occasion to try out a new stitch you just learned or a special technique you picked up at that great class you just took. However, it’s easy to go overboard. […]
Fingerless Mittens: 6 New Easy Knitting Patterns
While I do love a traditional knit mitten pattern, there’s something so liberating about fingerless mittens. Fingerless mittens offer a freedom that regular mittens can’t. My fingers are no longer trapped by the fiber shackles of merino wool or alpaca silk. Each of my five digits can roam free and happily experience the soothing chill […]
Are You Afraid of the Sweater Curse?
It somehow seems appropriate to bring up the Sweater Curse at this time of year. Not only because Halloween is fast approaching, but because sweater weather is bearing down on us with a vengeance. The Sweater Curse is a well-known part of the knitting culture. The general narrative of the myth follows a simple, general […]
