Six weeks ago, 17 knitters joined me to enjoy the Lion Brand Yarn Studio Summer Knit-Along. We learned a lot of new techniques knitting this sweater and stuck to our knitting, even through the heat! Some folks in the group were already pros with multiple KALs & CALs...

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Do you love the look of knit fabric, but hesitate to pick up a pair of needles? Knitting on the loom may be just the thing for you. In loom knitting, instead of holding all the stitches together on a needle, each stitch is held securely on its...

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Self-striping yarns add excitement to any project, especially socks and shawls. What’s even more exciting is creating your own self-striping yarn with your own color combinations. In class we will be working with sock blanks that have been knit on the machine. This gives you a long piece...

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Do you want to make stockinette stitch that doesn’t curl? Or a project that looks just as beautiful from the back as it does the front? How about vertical stripes without doing Intarsia? If you said yes then double knitting is for you. Double knitting creates a double-layered...

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I love hand-dyeing my own yarn! Whenever I finish a new project people ooh and ahh and try to figure out what kind of yarn it is, not realizing it’s the same yarn they see here in the store but with my own personal touch. Many beginning dyers...

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During the hot days of summer I love knitting small, quick projects, and it seems that I can always use another bag! This bag is a quick, fun project with a beautiful lace pattern that is not only easy for the beginning lace knitter, but also will keep...

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