Tag: knitting
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Loops & Threads Capri Tencel Revisited
When I wrote about Loops & Threads Capri Tencel yarn last July, I promised to follow up on my impressions once I’d knit a garment with it. I had just enough yarn for a summer tank, so I chose the Arioso Tank Top (Ravlery link) by Leah Prestamo. It knit up quickly, and I didn’t…
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Seasonal Color Analysis for Knitters
Seasonal color analysis system seems to be having a moment over on TikTok. It seems everyone is trying to figure out which color season they are. This color system first came about it the 80s with the book Color Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson. (Full disclosure – I’m old enough to remember it’s original heyday.)…
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Reclaiming Yarn For a Project
I’ve just started a new sweater project for myself, and I’m reusing yarn from an unraveled sweater I knit previously.
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Wear Your Knits – the Suora Tee
This is the second post in my Wear Your Knits series on how to style handknit garments. In this post I show how I wear Suora, a handknit linen T-shirt.
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Mending a Sweater Hem
As spring arrives, some of my most-loved winter knits have seen some wear and tear. I’ve accumulated a small mending pile, including one of my favorite sweaters – the Poet sweater by Sari Nordlund (see it on Ravelry), knit in local Jacob wool yarn from Avillion Farm. The hem of the sweater had unraveled a…