Three reasons to Commit To Knit for charity this June

June is Commit to Knit month, when we ask you to commit to knit or crochet at least one item for charity. So why should you get involved? Stashbusting A lot of the patterns in the special charity knitting supplement we have put together with the lovely folk at Simply Knitting (look out for it…

Using long colour change and self-striping yarns

As we revealed in our post about summer knitting trends, stripes are in. One of the ways to achieve lovely striped garments is to use yarns dyed with long sections of contrasting colours that give you stripes as you work. There are lots of these yarns about at the moment as you can see from…

Tips – using stitchmarkers

Stitchmarkers can be some of the most useful tools in your knitting or crochet bag but a lot of people haven’t used them or are puzzled because there seem to be so many different types as in this picture. You see stitchmarkers that are plain metal or plastic rings, charms hanging from rings, beads on…

The joy of yarn shops

Visiting a strange town last weekend, I spotted a yarn shop so popped in for a visit. It was reasonably-sized shop with the walls lines in yarns, giving customers plenty of choice. One customer was seeking advice about the right yarn for a pattern while another browsed pattern options. A third was settling in on…