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Easy Way to Knit Fair Isle and Other Stranded Colourwork in the Round and Flat

The biggest advantage of making our own handknits is the freedom to choose different colours and combine them in unique combinations. There are ways to blend colours together, to make motifs and various stripes, colour blocking and entrelac. But probably the most loved way to mix colours is stranded knitting, especially Fair Isle. This technique …

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How to Unknit – Tinking, Frogging and Safe Frogging

Uncategorized / By Maryna

It might seem counterproductive, but we do occasionally need to unravel our knitting. The reason for that is simple – we unknit when we make a mistake and want to fix it. It takes a while to finish a handknit project (if you want to get some estimates, check out the Knitting Time Calculator), and …

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5 Ways to Carry Yarn Up the Side of the Work

Uncategorized / By Maryna

When I started to research this topic, I never expected to find so many different ways to tame those multiple strands of yarn. And I am happy I did find them because each of these ways has its pros and cons. If you can’t use a certain way in a particular situation, there is always …

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5 Ways to Make Neat Side Edges

Uncategorized / By Maryna

When we knit scarves, blankets and other projects that have exposed sides, the look of those sides can make or break the overall look of the project. Thankfully, with just a bit of planning it’s quite easy to turn uneven edges into a lovely chain of stitches or a narrow band with a neat pattern, …

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Double stranded knitting – What? Why? How?

Uncategorized / By Maryna

Often there are situations when you wish the yarn you use for your project was thicker. Or you want to add a different colour to the yarn, but can’t find the right combination of colours in a variegated yarn available in your local yarn store. Or you’d like to adjust the fibre content of the …

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How to Keep Yarn From Tangling

Uncategorized / By Maryna

For this article I picked a topic that is not considered to be particularly interesting, more like a pain in the back. But I decided to tackle it anyway to hopefully find ways to minimize the amount of frustration we all get when our working yarn occasionally turns into a tangled mess. It seems that …

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How to Make Sure You Finish All Knitting Projects You Start

Uncategorized / By Maryna

Let’s face it – we all get carried away. When browsing Pinterest or looking through knitting books and magazines we get inspired, and it is great. We start a new project and feel excited about it … for a day or two … a week at most. Then we see something else and start another …

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M1L and M1R without confusion

Uncategorized / By Maryna

Why is it that the most popular increase causes many of us so much confusion? I don’t know about you, but it took me YEARS to find a way to remember how to make M1R and M1L without mixing them up. So when Carol sent me an email asking to make a tutorial about this …

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The Magic Loop Technique Step by Step

Uncategorized / By Maryna

Knitting in the round is a great way to finish a project faster and to avoid seaming. Over the centuries knitters came up with quite a few ways to work in the round – using four needles, five needles, one, two or even more circular needles… But recently one way of working in the round …

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Helix Knitting

Uncategorized / By Maryna

How to Knit Jogless One Row Stripes in the Round One row stripes are great for making incredible colour combinations, for using up odds and ends we have in our stash, and for seamlessly blending several dye lots in one project. When worked in the round those stripes usually cause a few issues: 1. Inevitable …

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