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Tutorial: Winding a Center-Pull Ball
Sometimes you don’t have a ball winder. Sometimes a ball winder doesn’t make a lot of sense, like when you’re winding mini skeins. You can still have a centre-pull ball. It’s pretty simple if you start it off right.…
Yarn Dreams
With fall knitting season bringing thoughts of pumpkins and mittens to the minds of knitters everywhere, I thought I’d play around with yarn possibilities for two of my favourite patterns. Imagine the Thotful Spot set (Hat & Hand Warmers) in the sophisticated autumnal…
Stash Housekeeping
It was time to do a bit of organizing before the flurry of fall crafting and gift making. This fall is going to be stuffed full of non-crafting things, but I also want to be making a million things. Step…
Travelling Landscape Project Colours
I knew I wanted to pick something neutral as a base so that I could let the voting excite me with the choice of the brighter/more playful colours. I went through the Wollmeise website colours (approximately 1, 111 of them,…
Yarn Review: Sweet Georgia Superwash Worsted
Sweet Georgia has always held a sweet spot in my heart. Long ago, back when the knitting internet was young, it was the first yarn company I’d ever seen have colourways inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Willow…