I hope all of you are staying safe, staying healthy, and staying inside. This is a difficult time for so many of us, and we look to those activities we can still enjoy, those activities that calm us and make us feel fulfilled and productive, those that provide a sense of stability in this storm of …
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How To Block a Tam or Beret
I'm a bit of an Outlander fanatic. Yes, I admit it. I love the books. I love the show. I love just about every single thing about this series. And for those who follow the show, Season Five is scheduled to air one week from today. I can hardly contain myself, even though I've read the book and …
Hedgehogs Part Three: Duplicate Stitch
This will be the last of a three-part tutorial series for my Hedgehogs Smartphone and Tablet Cover design! In Part One, I explained how to do the provisional cast-on technique required for this design. In Part Two, I showed the three-needle bind off technique to make a nice sturdy seam at the …
Hedgehogs Part Two: Three Needle Bind Off
In the first of this three-part blog series, I ran through a step-by-step tutorial on provisional cast-on technique, and we ended by placing the live stitches back on a needle. Now in this second part, we will be "seaming" the live stitches using the three needle bind off technique. There is …
Hedgehogs Part One: Provisional Cast On
Ok, so over the summer I've been busy at work on a new pattern collection. It all started with a stranded knitting scarf design featuring lots of fun little motifs, and based on that design (complete, but not yet published), I've been working on a thematic collection of 10 patterns, which I hope to …