Category Archives: instruction

The Better Sweater Series #3 Body, Swatch, and Sweater Measurement

Posted on March 17, 2018 by knittingthestash

Episode #3 in this series focuses on issues of measurement for bodies, swatches, and sweaters! We’ll chat about how to measure your body, what swatches can tell us, and how to read the knitting of a sweater for clues about … Continue reading →

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The Better Sweater Series #1: Sweater Evaluation

Posted on January 21, 2018 by knittingthestash

Well, hello there, weekenders! The first installment of The Better Sweater Series is up on YouTube! This series is meant to accompany our Re-Make-Along 2018, but it will also have advice, tips, tricks, and hacks that should be helpful to … Continue reading →

Posted in Better Sweater, community, episode, instruction, KAL, knitting, knitting math, Re-Make-Along, sweater, tricks and tips | 5 Comments

How To: Spinning a Gradient Yarn

Posted on October 4, 2017 by knittingthestash

Howdy fiber folk! It’s Spinzilla . . . so no podcast this weekend (I am devoting every minute I can spare to time with my Ladybug–and family, of course!) But, *for* Spinzilla, I spun a gradient yarn, so, I decided to … Continue reading →

Posted in color, custom yarn, gradient, gradient spin, gradient yarn, handspun, instruction, spinning, techniques, tricks and tips, unicorns, video, yarn | 4 Comments

Stornoway Throw: Border Wrap and Turn

Posted on December 1, 2016 by knittingthestash

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 | 192 Comments

Cable On! And Help with Cable Corners

Posted on November 17, 2016 by knittingthestash

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 | 13 Comments

Video Tutorial: Bracelet Plying a 3-Ply Yarn

Posted on October 20, 2016 by knittingthestash

**Help me celebrate the knittingthestash YouTube channel launch: visit the blogpost OR the channel and enter to win an awesome one-of-a-kind handspun skein of yarn!  All you have to do is leave a comment in either place! The drawing will be this … Continue reading →

Posted in 3-ply, Andean ply, bracelet ply, instruction, spinning, technique, tricks and tips, video | 2 Comments

Video Tutorial: Adapting a Pattern

Posted on September 10, 2016 by knittingthestash

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 | 2 Comments

Weaving Papers

Posted on June 28, 2016 by knittingthestash

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 | 3 Comments

Video Tutorial: Dye Day

Posted on May 28, 2016 by knittingthestash

Thanks to Spencer for the video diary of the process and the day 🙂

Posted in community, dye, fiber, inspiraton, instruction, video | 2 Comments

Teaching Tweens: Drop Spindle or BUST!

Posted on May 12, 2016 by knittingthestash

This week, I taught my last “Fun with Fiber” class at the local middle school. As I said in Lessons Learned, I think I learned about as much as the kids, at least in terms of how to teach about … Continue reading →

Posted in drop spindle, fiber, instruction, kids, spinning, teaching, tricks and tips, Uncategorized | 4 Comments