Whether you enjoy knitting, crochet, or loom knitting, you can create twiddle muffs and bring comfort to dementia patients Up until about 3 1/2 years ago, I didn’t know twiddle muffs existed. If you’d asked me for a twiddle muff pattern, I would have stared at you blankly. But then I received a Facebook message from a gentleman in New…
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Want fabulous yarn brought right to your door every month? Darn Good Yarn is the subscription box you need in your life A little over a year ago, I wrote about a new yarn subscription service I had just tried out. This was the Darn Good Yarn of the Month Club. I continue to have this subscription. And I thought…
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A mission to bring together the US and USSR today continues to knit countries together through yarn, with Peace Fleece As I get older, I find myself thinking a lot more about the people behind the products I buy and use. The people who work in the fields and the factories. The people who work in warehouses and the studios….
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Using the Snuggles Project as an example, let me show you how you can take a stitch pattern and turn it into a project Today, shortly after I featured the Snuggles Project in a recent Knitting Nuggets Newsletter issue, I received the following email: “Just a question. None of the animal blanket patterns state a size for reference. Hard to…
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Learning to increase and decrease will instantly take you from “beginner” to “advanced beginner” as a knitter! Do you know how to do these knitting steps? Cast on Do a knit stitch Do a purl stitch Bind off If so, congratulations! You have mastered the basics of knitting. If these are the only things you know how to do in…
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