3 ways to avoid the yarn mistakes that can make your knitting life miserable It’s a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? The very same yarn that brings us knitters such joy and delight can make us miserable. Of course, that’s not really truth. It isn’t the yarn that makes us miserable; it’s the mistakes we make with it! Yarn,…
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Want to make bonding hearts for Mighty Miracles? Here’s a free knitting pattern with 3 variations I’m so excited to offer my knitting friends these patterns for bonding hearts! If you don’t know what bonding hearts are, be sure to check out my article on the Mighty Miracles Foundation. In a nutshell, bonding hearts allow parents of premature infants to…
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Join with Mighty Miracles Foundation and send your crocheted octopi and/or your knitted or sewn hearts to bring comfort and healing to families of premature infants Amanda Dickinson visited my church prayer shawl group recently with a story to share. She shared with us the story of her second child, Kaleb, who had to be born entirely too soon because…
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You can knit for this new charity and partner with organizations all over the world to help orphans and widows In November 2017, American Megan Zirkle discovered that in southern Pakistan, they desperately needed warm clothing for children in their rural villages. Feeling a need to help, she rallied her friends and family to gather and send 40 handmade beanies…
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No, you don’t have to let that novelty yarn languish in your stash forever! Here are 4 great ways to use it When I began knitting over 11 years ago, novelty yarn was all the rage. I saw it everywhere — in the craft stores, in the yarn shops, even in the gifts of yarn I received. For whatever reason,…
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