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Organize Your Needles with My Needle Keeper Idea
March 27, 2012 | 
Author I have lots of straight knitting needles, and a few bent ones. Keeping track of the mates for them was hard for a while, as I didn’t have a needle organizer. I was going to make one, but I never bothered enough to find a good pattern. Being a cheap yankee and a compulsively creative sort I came up with these little gems. They keep needle sets together in pairs or sets of pairs. If I just want to take one pair with me, the individual keepers keep them together in my bag.
When you are using the needles you can leave the Keeper on one of the needles (for individual Keepers).
Use your imagination. I just made these up.
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Tags: crochet, crochet projects, Knitting, knitting needles, needle keepers, needle organizers | 
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I do have a few things to post about here for knitting, but not feeling too motivated. If you have anything you want to hear from me about, let me know. I respond well to such interest. Have a great day. – Eric
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All Slip Cable Knitting Technique.
Hello, I came across this blog from a Ravelry thread and now I’ve got it bookmarked!
I learned to cable a few months ago for a project that only involved very small cables, but many of them. I quickly decided I’d go mad if I had to use a cable needle every five stitches, so I looked up how to cable without a needle. Like you probably were, I was quickly terrified at the thought of dropping stitches, so I figured out my own way which is and expansion of some things I’ve read elsewhere.
By slipping various groups of stitches back and forth, you can transpose the two sets of stitches before you ever knit them, and you never need to take a stitch completely off the needle. Say you want to do a left twist in a four-stitch-wide cable. You slip two stitches together to the right needle (always knitwise), slip two more stitches together, then slip all four stitches back. If you want a right twist, slip all four first and then do the pairs. Obviously this becomes more awkward for wider cables, but it’s far preferable to any of the alternatives, for me.
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Knit A Scarf – Fast!
I made this scarf recently for a gift and it turned out great. This is a squishy, loose-knit scarf and the pattern is reversible, and looks good for a man or woman depending on the color you use. You may be able to finish it in three hours or less.
There is another, newer free pattern with a hat here http://knitforbrains.net/patterns/fast-knit-manly-geometric-hat-and-scarf-but-she-likes-it-too-free-pattern/ and a Faux Cable hat here http://knitforbrains.net/?p=960
By the way, sorry I haven’t posted much lately here. I grew a handlebar moustache this summer (2010) and have been doing a lot of blogging for that at www.handlebarmoustachelife.com. Take a look.
For this scarf use just one skein of Lion Brand Thick and Quick Yarn or another yarn just as thick and long (108 yards or 98 meters) – or even multiple strands of Read the rest of this entry »
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Glengarry Hat Test Model
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Interesting Fact about Andrea and Andreea
Andrea Wong is known for her gread DVDs on the Portuguese style of knitting and travels to teach it as well. I did a wikipedia search for the phrase “portuguese knitting” and got a surprise. In the list of results was an entry for the word “andrea”, stating that in the Romanian language it actually means “knitting needle”! How about that. The Romanian version of the name Andrea is spelled “Andreea” so as to distinguish it, but it doesn’t mean knitting needle in that spelling.
Small world of words.
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