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The new Intarsia Flower Pillow pattern is here!

September 11, 2023 Leave a Comment

Learn where you can get your hands (and needles) on the new Intarsia Flower Pillow knitting pattern, featuring intarsia colorwork, a combination of knit and purl stitches, and seaming with mattress stitch.

Lifted Increases: How to Work RLI, LLI & When to Use Them

September 7, 2023 Leave a Comment

Learn how to knit a right lifted increase (RLI) and left lifted increase (LLI) in knitting, and why you might want to use them instead of a make 1 right (M1R) or make 1 left (M1L), depending on what you’re knitting. Video tutorial and photo tutorial included.

Nightmare Before Christmas Knit Along Coming This October!

August 11, 2023 2 Comments

Coming this October: A knit along (KAL) featuring Heidi Gustad’s pattern from the new ‘Disney Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town and Christmas Town’

Magic Loop for Knitting in the Round with a Long, Circular Needle (with Video)

May 31, 2023 Leave a Comment

Learn about the magic loop method for knitting in the round. Using the magic loop allows knitters to work in the round with a single, long circular needle at a range of circumferences. This post features a video tutorial as well as information explaining the technique, how and why to use it, and when it came to be.

How to Knit a One-Row Buttonhole

May 3, 2023 Leave a Comment

Sweater knitters, listen up! Learn how to knit a buttonhole over the course of a single row of knitting, a.k.a. a one-row buttonhole. In this technique, a combination of binding off and casting on stitches on opposite sides of the work creates a symmetrical, stretchy buttonhole.