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Archive for February, 2008

How to Hem Knitted Items

So I was at Ravelry.com reading the forums, and there was a question about hemming. One of the responses gave this link to TECHknitting’s article Sewing shut hems and facings (part 5 of better cuffs and bands).
Well, this looks like very good info and I want to save it so I can find it later, so [...]

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So I saw some really cute kitchen-scrubby things posted at Ravelry.com. They were bright colored. Looked like fruits or fish or other fun things. Unfortunately, many of them are crotched (I really don’t crotchet) and mostly the patterns are in Japanese (I don’t read Japanese).

Some people say that you can figure out the Japanese patterns from [...]

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So, I joined the “Organized Knitters” group at Ravelry.com. Because I know I have a lot of stuff I need to clean up and get organized. Anyhow, I do not have a “stash”, so I had to pick something other than “organize your stash” as my February project. So I picked to clean my laundry room. The state of [...]

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Knitting Patterns

I’m finding lots of patterns on the ‘Net, that are free or interesting, or whatever… and just to avoid losing track of them, I’m going to list them here for later review… I seem to be into dishcloths a lot for some reason at the moment. (Am currently knitting one that I just started last night.)The [...]

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So, recently as a result of discussions in the MyFoodDiary.com forums, I’ve decided I will start knitting again. I used to knit. Like 2 decades ago. Anyhow, I joined the Ravelry.com site (a knit and crochet community) and I’m looking for some easy projects to ease back into the whole knitting thing. I like this string bag which is a [...]

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