Our December Knitalong: The Morehouse Cabled Ear Warmer designed by VanessaKnits in supersoft, ultra-squishy Morehouse Merino and knit with just 1 skein of Morehouse Bulky One lucky newsletter subscriber […]
Join our November Knitalong to learn (or practice) fair isle knitting for a good cause! We had such a great reponse to the Harriet’s Hat Knitalong, we’re doing it again […]
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Color is tough, because it’s as much personal preference as anything else. For Harriet’s Hat, Harriet picked out the colors of the Gilbert Bain Hospital and interlaced them through this […]
Now that you’re familiar with how to read a knitting chart, you may want to make some changes to the ones you run across. In this case, I’m knitting Harriet’s […]
Knitting charts look much like something spit out by a spreadsheet program. They are a section of a pattern depicted graphically rather than in words, and can be very useful […]
This is written to accompany the Harriet Hat Knitalong, but it will work any time you need to swatch for a project you’re knitting in the round! 1) Cast on […]
Now that you’ve completed your swatch, and it’s been washed, blocked, and dried, it’s time to measure it to see what kind of fabric you’ve got. You’ll need a ruler […]
I think, on some level, we’re all afraid of swatching because we don’t want to get bad news – namely, that the fabric we’ve just knit isn’t going to give […]
Join us in our July/August knitalong to learn (or practice) fair isle knitting for good cause! Harriet Middleton, a resident of Shetland, volunteered her knitting as a way to help […]