What do you think it takes to go from this:
to this:
Dangerous chemicals? Heavy metals, bug carapaces, dust masks, full-arm latex gloves, HazMat gear? A trip to a pricey art supply store? Would you be surprised it I told you that all it takes is six packets of Kool-Aid from your local grocery store? [...]
Six and a half yarn shops that you love and recommend… let’s get this party started!
Topping the list is KnitPicks - famous for a huge variety of yarn, tools and all sorts of goodies, plus patterns you will only find at KnitPicks, these guys deserve their status as a top online knitting shop!
Kaleidescope Yarns is [...]
Being the blog addict I am, it seemed like a good idea to ask a group of knitting inclined friends what would they would most like to read about on a knitting/design/yarn blog. It shouldn’t have surprised me when the answers varied from ’simple’ (hahaha!) knitting pictures all the way down to wanting the pattern [...]
Right now, there isn’t a whole lot that could beat out a clean, quiet house and a long afternoon nap - I‘m bushed! And even though it’s only Tuesday, I’ve been busy enough that it might as well be Friday; plenty of cooking, cleaning and saving the wood floors from certain incineration by way [...]
Learning to knit can be expensive; you’ll need to pick out needles, some hopefully attractive yarn, and then plenty of books. Books filled with how to instructions, patterns, explanations of types of yarn and then who knows how many books and to explain all the different techniques, knitting jargon and charts, much of which [...]