Patty’s Fall Knitting Challenge UPDATE
It’s been 4 weeks since we kicked off Patty’s Fall Knitting Challenge. If you don’t know what that is, click on the link to learn how you can will prizes (yup, free yarn) just for casting on! There’s still plenty of time to join in on the fun! Join my Ravelry group cast on and win prizes. […]
Tuesday Tip: Weaving In Ends — Skimming
We all know finishing can make a project look “homemade” or “handmade.” I’ve written several Tuesday Tips on seaming. We’ve looked as seaming garter stitch, shoulders, and even tackled the dreaded topic of selvedge edge and mattress stitch. No matter how wonderful your seaming, if your ends are not woven in well, your piece will […]
Win a Copy of “The Knitter’s Journal”
Knitter’s have a million ideas at once. We sketch on scraps of napkins that we lose. We put bookmarks in our stitch dictionaries thinking, “that might make a good scarf”, we swatch to inspire and then forget what we were swatching for . . . no? Just me? Oh well. If any of this sound familiar […]
5 Secrets of Row Gauge
I have written about gauge many times. I think about gauge, I teach gauge, I believe in gauge. I’ve filmed a video for a special cast on for gauge, written about how to measure when you can’t see your stitches, how to block your swatch, and how to swatch for in the round projects. Today, it’s […]
Big Box of Knitting Fails – Colorfast FAIL :(
For those of you that have taken classes with me, you know all about “Patty’s Big Box of Knitting Fails”. I seem to have an example of something tragic I’ve done in my knitting for nearly everything I’m teaching. So, I’m launching a new blog series to dig into my knitting boo boos. Today’s episode […]
Patty’s Fall Knitting Challenge
It’s been a crazy busy fall, with two new patterns released in September, another in October, and more to come in November, December and January! February will bring a brand new KAL for my Ravelry group (with sooooo many new cool techniques, and tons of videos!) So for the fall, it’s time for Patty’s Fall […]
Tuesday Tip – How to Fix a Hole In Your Knitting
I love mistakes. I love fixing mistakes. In Knitting ER I go over all the fundamentals. But sometimes there are things that go beyond the standard (that’s where Advanced Knitting Fixes comes in). I’ve written in past Tuesday Tips about Swiss Darning for a repair, and duplicate stitch for reinforcement. Today I turn my attention […]
Rhinebeck Meet Up 2016
I can’t believe it’s almost time for Rhinebeck again! Since this is my first year going to Rhinebeck since I started my Ravelry group, I thought we might have a little infomal Rhinebeck Meet up!!
5 Things in a Good Sweater Pattern
I’ve shared tips on Becoming a Better Knitter before, so I thought it was only fair to turn the tables. I’m often asked what makes a good pattern, and I used to say something lame like, “good is in the eye of the beholder.” Well, cop out no more, I’ve thought about what are the 5 […]
10 Tips to Becoming a Better Knitter
As a knitting teacher, I’m asked all the time for tips on how to become a better knitter. We all want to Improve our Knitting. Knitters often hear so many different things, and it’s fairly hard to boil them down–but here they are, my Top 10 Tips to Becoming a Better Knitter