Category: Knitting

Wednesday’s WIP: Must finish these socks

These socks are taking forever, but now that they are starting to take shape, I can’t wait to finish them, I started it way back in April. Sock knitting is a little fiddly but it is challenging enough to be fun and simple enough to be…

{Knitting Tips and Tricks} Bookmark your Knitting

If you are a geek then you can just call this creating a restore point.  I always have a hard time ripping rows and then picking up the stitches again especially if there were yarn overs and the stitches keep getting twisted so I sometimes just…

Adding a Zippered Lining to your crochet and knit items

One of the most search terms I get is ‘how to add a zipper to crochet or knit’  I already have a quick and dirty method for that.  I was working on a lacy motif clutch design that had to be lined, so I wrote a…

Wednesday’s WIP: Dischcloths/Washcloths

Just a plain seed stitch dishcloth, but made out of sports weight (I think it is thinner than that) and 2mm needles.  Simple, plain but so pretty. To the untrained eye, I appear to like plain and boring, but that is not true.  I love the…