The last few weeks I have been talking about re-purposing ordinary household items as knitting tools. Using items from around the house instead of buying specialty equipment for every knitting task means I have more money for yarn. I the spirit of eco-friendliness, I thought I might share one of my favorite blocking tips.
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I have a sort of love/hate relationship with variegated yarns. I adore how they look in the skein. I find them to be fun and colorful yet I hate how limiting they are to my knitting. There are only so many things you can knit using variegated yarn. So I often satisfy my longing for variegated colors with dish cloth cottons.
We all have lots of little knitting notions that we have to keep up with – tapestry needles, stitch markers, etc. Finding the perfect container for storing them can be a chore. But with a little creativity, you may discover that you have the perfect container just lying around your house. Here are some of the unconventional, no-cost and environmentally-friendly things that I use for storing knitting notions.
It came to my attention recently that I never shared one of my newest shawl designs with you. I got so excited with the publication and the knit-along that I just forgot to post about it here.
Presenting Debbie’s Diamonds. This rectangular shawl was designed for my friend Debbie of Dodge Creations featuring her lovely hand-dyed yarn, Dodge Creations Dye Works Fingering . This lovely featuring a bold diamond motif will be a versatile wardrobe addition. It looks as fabulous with evening wear as it does with jeans.
A favorite cast on of many knitters is the Long Tail Cast On but many people have problems keeping this cast on from being too tight. This is caused when you get the stitches too close together in the casting on process. The normal inclination is to push each stitch against the last one as you proceed. This will result in an inflexible cast on that is usually too small for the rest of the piece. To correct this, simply space your stitches out a bit. You should have as much space between each stitch as the yarn is wide.
