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  • 12 Days KAL: Blocking

    This is the last in our series to get you ready for our 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Knit Along that starts next Monday! Today we are going to talk about blocking. Blocking is a wonderful thing and can...
    Jun 10, 2016 2 Comments

  • 12 Days KAL: French Knots, Beads and Duplicate Stitch

    This is the sixth post in our series to get you ready for the 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland Knit Along. All of the mittens have a leaf and berry motif at the cuff. Today we are going to discuss ...
    Jun 08, 2016 No Comments

  • 12 Days KAL: Stranded Color Work

    This is the fifth in our series to help get you ready for the 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland Knit Along. Today we will be talking about stranded color work. I have to be upfront with you guys, th...
    Jun 06, 2016 2 Comments

  • 12 Days KAL: Knitting in the Round

    This is the fourth in our series to help get you ready for the 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland Knit Along. Today we are going to talk about knitting in the round. I love knitting in the round, no ...
    Jun 03, 2016 2 Comments

  • 12 Days KAL: Reading a Color Work Chart

    This is the third in our series of posts to help you get ready for our 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland Knit Along. Today we are going to talk about reading a color work chart since a few people ha...
    Jun 02, 2016 2 Comments

  • 12 Days KAL: Increases, Decreases and Kitchener Stitch

    This is the second in our series to get you ready to start the Twelve Days of Christmas Mitten Garland. A few people have mentioned they’d never worked some of the increases, decreases or Kitche...
    May 31, 2016 5 Comments

  • 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland KAL

    I had so much fun hosting last year’s Mitten Garland Advent Calendar KAL, I couldn’t resist coming up with a new mini mitten knit along for this Christmas. This year will will be making tw...
    May 16, 2016 366 Comments

  • Road to the State Fair ’16 Progress

    I have finished the hand for the first mitten! Imagine them after a good blocking please. I needed to restart it once because the picot hem was too wide the first time, but a few stitches down sorted...
    May 04, 2016 6 Comments

  • Sneak Peek

    We’ll be starting a new Christmas Knit Along in June and I wanted to give you just a little sneak peek. More details later this month… If you are not reading this post in a feed reader or...
    May 02, 2016 4 Comments

  • Yarnover 2016

    I’ve been in Minneapolis for nine years and this year I finally made it to Yarnover, the MN Knitter’s Guild day-long event filled with classes and shopping. I took a class in the morning ...
    Apr 25, 2016 1 Comment