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Category Archives: help!
Stornoway Throw: Border Wrap and Turn
If you are making the Stornoway Throw by Anita Grahn, you are in for a real treat. The body is easy to memorize and the cables are fairly intuitive (with the exception of the Left and Right cable corners, which … Continue reading
Posted in blanket, cables, community, help!, instruction, knitting, Stornoway Throw, technique, wrap and turn
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Cable On! And Help with Cable Corners
As I’ve mentioned a few times, my blanket-a-year project for 2016 is the Stornoway Throw by Anita Grahn. It’s a bit behind (a few other projects took precedence) . . . but now, I’m back on track and cabling up a … Continue reading
Posted in blanket, cables, help!, instruction, knitting, Uncategorized, year-long
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Video Tutorial: Adapting a Pattern
Hot Pantz Math was so much fun that I asked my better half (and video-maker husband) to whip up a quick instructional video for posterity. I am proud to present another installment in what he has termed the “Melissa Knits/Melissa … Continue reading
Posted in gauge, help!, instruction, knitting, knitting math, measuring, pattern, tricks and tips, video
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Mini Mania!
A quick flash of a preview on this fine Thursday morn: my latest acquisition: mini skeins! The burning question: What do you make with your minis? I purchased these for two reasons: 1) I want to test each yarn-maker’s or … Continue reading
Posted in help!, knitting, mini skeins, pattern, Uncategorized
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Weaving Papers
As you know, my dear Spencer has taken on the loom. He is an experimenter–and happily so. When he learned to knit, as you might remember, he told me emphatically “I don’t do patterns.” And his first woven cloth is … Continue reading
Posted in community, found, help!, instruction, learning, loom, pattern, spinners and weavers guild, weaving
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Our Warped Loom
Why yes, it was a grand undertaking and yes, it *looked* a bit of a fright early on, but thanks to the help of Beth (CU-Spinners and Weavers Guild member extraordinaire), we warped this baby! The process took us about … Continue reading
Posted in community, fiber art, friends, help!, inspiration, spinners and weavers guild, unexpected, weaving
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Walking Dead . . . Mini Skeins?
As many of you have guessed by now, I am a bit of a Walking Dead fan; so, when LBArtYarns decided to release a mini-skein collection of her TWD colorways, I was psyched. But, as sometimes happens, I am at … Continue reading
Posted in color, colorway, help!, mini skeins, sock yarn, The Walking Dead
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