Category: kniting

Ravelry Lurking

The DIY Tools group is one of my favorite places to lurk, and the place where you’re most likely to catch me these days. Why? I’m cheap and I come from a long line of junk collectors.
 
Wool combs made out of nails and epoxy, custom stripe dying with pvc pipe, and spinning wheels out of old bicycles mesh perfectly with my junk genes (and it gives me a better reason to go to the hardware store than buying a drill gauge to size knitting needles.)

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Support the Knitting Lounge

I don’t normally post this sort of thing, but the Knitting Lounge at Fashion Week is the sort of project that can benefit all indy handknit designers in the long run. (It could also create a lot more competition, but that’s fine by me.) I donated what I could (it wasn’t much, but every penny helps) and I’m encouraging everyone to donate what they can

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Confessions of a Yarnaholic

By Me

Edited and Commented by kcknits (aka My True Self)

Hello, I am a yarnaholic. Fiber of all types invades my home; its siren call renders me powerless. Strike this sentence! This is not an invasion. It is a willing collusion resulting from the symbiotic relationship between man and sheep. I am an equal opportunity yarnaholic–acrylic has as much of a chance with me as cashmere. Equal opportunity my foot. Cashmere and bison are expensive. I’ve even bought fun fur because it was well…”fun”. The swatch looked cute, but the finished scarf must never see the light of day. Remnants–those innocuous little half, quarter, and eighth balls–have sentimental value and must be pried from my dead fingers. The acrylic may be used for tying up plants, but touch my

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“Unofficial” Ravelry Tweet Day

Mark your calendars everyone. May 21st is Ravelry Tweet Day. Copy of the Event Posting on Ravelry: “unofficial” Ravelry Tweet Day May 21, 2009 This will hopefully be a worldwide Twitter event, however the Events page made me pick a state and country on order to post this! Maybe those from other places who are interested could re-post under their home state/ country so that we can get as many Ravelers as possible to Tweet Ravelry and knitting on May 21st. Idea- On May 21st, 2009 let’s see if we can get Ravelry and knitting in the “trending topics” on Twitter. event editors: cecilyam

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A Geek Plans Her Color Work Knits

Have you ever designed an intarsia or fair isle design, ordered your yarn online and discovered that the colors were either a) hideous, b) didn’t match, c) too girly for the man in your life, or d) all of the above? If you have, let me say welcome to the world of the online LYS. If you haven’t, either you don’t order online or you are incredibly lucky.

Let’s go ahead and establish that I am not a lucky knitter. In fact, I would describe myself as the person who experiences the worst that the knitting world can offer (frequently all at the same time). Yes, I have ordered what I thought was a lovely pale pink yarn only to discover that the delicate pink was best described as pepto-bismol

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