Mattress Stitch
Seaming. Some people love it (ME!), some people hate it. I truly believe that properly seaming a finished piece of knitting makes the difference between “hand made” and “home made.”...
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Sew As You Go
The Sew-As-You-Go method allows the knitter to join an edge of their fabric to live stitches to create a hem or pleat. For those of you who are machine knitters,...
Sew As You Go
The Sew-As-You-Go method allows the knitter to join an edge of their fabric to live stitches to create a hem or pleat. For those of you who are machine knitters,...
Year Of Mittens: February Mittens
We have a double mitten for the second month of the year! The February Mitten is here! The February Mitten is an all-over leaf-lace mitten, lined in a bright contrast...
Year Of Mittens: February Mittens
We have a double mitten for the second month of the year! The February Mitten is here! The February Mitten is an all-over leaf-lace mitten, lined in a bright contrast...
Year of Mittens: January Mittens
Happy New Year! We are ringing in 2017 with a new mitten pattern to get you through the chilly January days and nights ahead. January's mitten features Latvian inspired color...
Year of Mittens: January Mittens
Happy New Year! We are ringing in 2017 with a new mitten pattern to get you through the chilly January days and nights ahead. January's mitten features Latvian inspired color...
Free Pattern: Holiday Cheer Ornaments
Our daughter Charlie is at the age where she’s really starting to “get” holidays. Easter and Christmas are current favorites, but what we enjoy most is hanging out together, decorating...
Free Pattern: Holiday Cheer Ornaments
Our daughter Charlie is at the age where she’s really starting to “get” holidays. Easter and Christmas are current favorites, but what we enjoy most is hanging out together, decorating...
Working From charts: Alternate Colorways
The vast majority of all of our chartsed patterns use the colors as shown in the sample. This method of chartsing colorwork works very well for a variety of reasons:...
Working From charts: Alternate Colorways
The vast majority of all of our chartsed patterns use the colors as shown in the sample. This method of chartsing colorwork works very well for a variety of reasons:...
KW Swatch Experiment: Knitting Tight vs. Knitti...
Since starting the swatching project, we’ve noticed a lot of questions regarding the techniques involved in making the swatches in order to better understand the various forces that may affect...
KW Swatch Experiment: Knitting Tight vs. Knitti...
Since starting the swatching project, we’ve noticed a lot of questions regarding the techniques involved in making the swatches in order to better understand the various forces that may affect...
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The Great Swatch Experiment
About a month ago, Kate posed a seemingly harmless question to the Twitterverse, and unleashed a monster. What would people do if we just stopped putting needle sizes on patterns?...
The Great Swatch Experiment
About a month ago, Kate posed a seemingly harmless question to the Twitterverse, and unleashed a monster. What would people do if we just stopped putting needle sizes on patterns?...
Two Stitch Cables
The October Mitten begins with a knit/purl lattice stitch pattern at the cuff that grows into a flowering cable. The floral pattern of the mitten is created by 1 x...
Two Stitch Cables
The October Mitten begins with a knit/purl lattice stitch pattern at the cuff that grows into a flowering cable. The floral pattern of the mitten is created by 1 x...
To Swatch, or Not to Swatch...
Yesterday, we posed a little question to the Twitter-verse: What would people do if we just stopped putting needle sizes on patterns? Needle size doesn’t matter, people, gauge does! #youbetterswatch...
To Swatch, or Not to Swatch...
Yesterday, we posed a little question to the Twitter-verse: What would people do if we just stopped putting needle sizes on patterns? Needle size doesn’t matter, people, gauge does! #youbetterswatch...
Seaming Perpendicular Pieces
Different than mattress stitch, where two pieces of parallel knit fabrics are sewn together with the same number of rows, seaming pieces of knitting together where one is held horizontally...
Seaming Perpendicular Pieces
Different than mattress stitch, where two pieces of parallel knit fabrics are sewn together with the same number of rows, seaming pieces of knitting together where one is held horizontally...
Kelbourne Visits Donegal Mill
As you know from Courtney’s post, in order to develop we decided we needed to visit Donegal Yarns mill. Besides the opportunity to visit Ireland, we were so excited to...
Kelbourne Visits Donegal Mill
As you know from Courtney’s post, in order to develop we decided we needed to visit Donegal Yarns mill. Besides the opportunity to visit Ireland, we were so excited to...
Kelbourne Goes to Ireland!
We took an amazing whirlwind trip to Ireland last December. Myself, Kate (who is sitting a couple rows back so she had her own row!), and Meghan flew into Dublin...
Kelbourne Goes to Ireland!
We took an amazing whirlwind trip to Ireland last December. Myself, Kate (who is sitting a couple rows back so she had her own row!), and Meghan flew into Dublin...