Four Tips for Knitting with Handspun Yarn
Some tips for getting started knitting with your handspun yarns.
choosing yarns
Layering With Mohair
Lately we’ve been having great fun combining lace weight mohair yarns with other yarns, resulting in beautiful painterly effects.
Choosing yarn for your colourwork sweater
This post is part of our ‘How to Strange Brew’ series. This post is focused on choosing yarn for a colourwork sweater.
Stashing Similar Yarns
We’ve been talking all about spring cleaning this week, about caring for and storing your knits, and about spring cleaning your stash too!
Speckles are so hot right now!
We’ve been loving the speckles lately, how about you? Do you have a sweet stash of speckled yarns calling out for just the right project? Let’s take a look at the joyful spattering of contrast and serendipity you find in speckled yarns, and look at a few ways you might put those precious skeins to work!
Rainbows Forever!
As you may know, Emily and I love a good rainbow. One of our very first designs was the i heart rainbows sweater and it is still true today: we heart rainbows!