Archive for January 2010
Never Not Knitting – An Almost-a-Dollar Store Score!
January 21, 2010 | 
Author The other day I was looking for baskets and bins to store yarn and knitting projects at the 99.99 cent store (yes they raised the price by almost a penny!) and found this Never Not Knitting Page-a-day calendar by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the “Yarn Harlot” for, yes, just 99.99 cents! Retail was 12.95.
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Need a couple DPNs? If you Have Options, You Have Options
I’ve been doing a little experimentation and designing for some minor pattern ideas that involved doing some i-cords, but they required a DPN of a certain size that I didn’t own. I popped in at Joann’s with one of my trusty 40% off coupons that blessedly rain from the sky these days and browsed the needle aisle. (By the way, do sign up for their email coupons at knitpicks.com)
A set of 4 Clover DPNs in the size 11 I was looking for would set me back about 12$ before the discount. That’s a lot to spend on an experiment, I thought, especially since I don’t use DPNs for anything, having nice sets of Options nickel and acrylic Zephyr circular needles. they have a nice taper at both ends…. Wait a second.
And there I realized I have all the DPNs I need. Without a cable these neat knitpicks.com circular needles sets can double for DPNs for my i-cord needs. they are a bit short for real DPN projects, but again, I don’t need them for that. So use your Options! Whether nickel plated tips, the Zephyr acrylics or the Harmony wood needles, make use of your resources!
Saved my coupon, saved my money. End of story.
You can easily knit past the threaded holes when they are playing left needle.
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Fast Knitting Video – Socks
Below are two videos sent to me by my penpal Larisa. She knits socks using 5 crochet hooks instead of DPNs and it’s pretty fast. Very cool idea. I hope you can pick up the idea from the videos. I bet of you could keep track you could do patterns with this method. The videos require Quicktime to be installed on your computer. The video will take a couple minutes to download.
Fast sock knitting with crochet hooks.
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Recycling Yarn, Part 2: Starting with a New Sweater
In my previous post about recycling yarn I stated that I didn’t like the process of hunting for the source sweater at a thrift shop, and I’m sticking with that opinion. You will not find me giving but a cursory glance at the sweaters there when I’m there for something else. It’s just too much effort for too little result. I have better things to do with that time.
I did however realize that recycling a new sweater from some inexpensive shop such as Ross or Marshalls is a great option. I was there shopping for the holidays last month and was lured to the men’s sweater rack. One thing I was confident of was that I would not be disappointed by finding a great sweater that had been ruined by washing and felting/fulling. While there were not a lot of colors and fibers that I wanted I did find one that is perfect.
A lot of nice yarn for just $20. Maybe I'll make a scarf and socks.
It’s a gray sweater in what I believe is Read the rest of this entry »
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