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How Tos

Learning a new skill or technique is always on our personal to do list. Here are some ideas and pointers to get you started.

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Beads and jewelry

- How to knit your own jewelry

- How to knit with beads


Cleaning/caring for yarn

- Dirty work: how to clean knitted garments

- Eucalan woolwash

- Kookaburra woolwash

- Soak woolwash


Colors

- Creating colors in yarn: an introduction to natural dyes

- What colors say about us


Dyeing

- Buying hand-dyed yarns

- Dye your own semisolid sock yarn with Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit

- Dye workshop: make your own Kool Aid colors

- Fiber-dyeing resources

- An introduction to natural dye


Felting/Fulling

- Fulling knitted garments

- Charlie's Christmas Stocking, a felted pattern by Cat Bordhi


Inspiration

- How to overcome knitting slumps

- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers


Lace

- The essentials of knitted lace

- Free one-skein shawl pattern

 
Leftovers

- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers


Needles

- Getting started with double-pointed needles

- How to make your own circular needles


Publishing

- How to publish designs in knitwear magazines

- Writing and publishing a successful knitting-oriented book


Socks

- How to knit socks

- How to pick the perfect sock yarn

- How to use semisolid yarns in socks—Jane's Hedgerows sock pattern

- How to dye your own semisolid sock yarn using Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit

- Charlie's Christmas Stocking, a pattern by Cat Bordhi


Spinning yarn

- How to spin yarn with a spindle

- How to spin yarn with a wheel


Stash management

- Sizing Up Oddballs How much yarn is in that skein?

- When the stash attacks: Creative techniques for concealing your yarns


Stranding

- When two yarns meet: the art of stranding for effect


Yarn substitutions

- How to make headache-free yarn substitutions

Featured how to

Charlie's Christmas Stocking
by Cat Bordhi
the stocking
No ordinary stocking, this one has multiple tiers of pouches in the arch expansion area. And you can use this same "disproportionate yarn" expansion technique for all sorts of things that need not have anything to do with holidays or stockings.

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