Knitting Tips

Knitting Tips gives you insight into how other knitters have found answers to their knitting problems. Great info for any beginner and advanced knitter :)

Knitting tips - A Guide To Substituting Yarn

Have you ever found a pattern that you love, but were unable to find the yarn suggested? What if you simply aren't in love with any of the colors offered? Or are allergic to the alpaca recommended by the pattern writer? Or the yarn they used is just too expensive! Situations like these are not uncommon -- and are certainly no reason for you to throw your hands in the air and feed your new favorite pattern to the shredder!

Worming occurs when a loop of yarn pulls away from the knitted fabric and coils back on itself. We have encountered this problem every now and again with one of our favorite chenille yarns, Muench Touch Me, and so we know how frustrating it can be.

Knitting Stitches: 5 Most Popular Knitting Stitch Types

Let me start by introducing you to the five stitch types that I believe are at the very heart of knitting! Learning to knit, you know, is nothing more than learning different knitting stitch types.

Knitting tips - Getting Gauge Without Knitting a Gauge

Like many of you, I hate to do gauge swatches... when I start a project I want to start knitting on the real deal. I want to get going! And, more often than not, even when I do take the time to do a gauge swatch, my gauge changes once I start knitting (my tension typically loosens as I go). If this sounds like you, keep reading to find out what I've done to rectify the situation (and to facilitate my laziness):

Crochet Flowers - A Great Way to Use Up Your Leftover Yarn!

One problem commonly faced by those who do a lot of knitting and crocheting is the question of what to do with their leftover yarn. What do you do with all of this yarn? Just throw it away? Not if you have a lot of it -- that's like throwing money away!

How to Block Your Knitting Into the Size You Want!

For the past 2 months or so, I've been working steadily (read: slowly) on my next blanket creation. After browsing the knitting stores for a pattern that suited me, I settled on the Lily Chin sampler afghan from Family Circle Easy Afghans, the same book I used for the yak blanket I made last year (which, of course, is keeping my dog Wiley warm as I write ... am I the only person in the world that that lets their dog cuddle up with a blanket worth hundreds of dollars?).