It is slow and hard on my hands but I just love it
Category: Knitting
Sock yarn coffee cup cozy {free pattern}
I had some leftover sock yarn from the rainbow socks. So I decided I really need to make myself a coffee cup cozy because I hate those paper sleeves when you buy a coffee. You need around 7 grams of sock weight yarn. And 2.5 mm…
Knitting from the center out.
In crochet it is super easy to knit from the center out. Actually it is probably one of the first things you learn to do. It is the basis of amigurumi and most three dimensional crochet. In knitting it is a little bit harder. But…
Knitting for kids 101
Knitting for my daughter is my favorite knitting. Kids are smaller, can wear bright and fun colors and are generally cute in anything you put them in. Last week I talked about knitting for babies. This week I thought about telling you what you need to…
Knitting for babies
I just love knitting for babies. I think it is to make up for the fact that when I had my daughter I hadn’t learned to knit yet. My grandmother knit 4 wrap around cardigans and some booties. I was also gifted a blanket from my…
What to knit with a single skein of handdyed sock yarn?
I have four very beautiful skeins of hand dyed yarn. So beautiful in fact, that I am having trouble winding them into balls, let alone knitting them up. But, at the end of the day it is just yarn, right? Right? Just say it is. I…
Productive Weekend
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yasmin Gamal (@jessyzz) I made some a woven hotpad. It is quite easy. Just cut 4 square of felt into strips, weave every two squares together, sew them down then sew the two woven squares together. …