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Knitting Tips--How to Dress for Your Body Type in a Hand-Knit Sweater

How many times have you invested money and hours of your time into knitting a sweater that made you look like Cinderella’s carriage–when it was a pumpkin? Or a horse’s hind end? Yeah, me too. The trouble wasn’t our knitting, but choosing a style unflattering for our shapes. Here are tips for how to dress for your body type so your next hand-knit sweater makes you look like a dream. [...]

Knitting Tips--Top 3 Ways a New Knitting Pattern Can Cause You Grief

Have you found a new knitting pattern you can’t wait to cast on? Hang on a second. Would you leap onto a horse you never met and run a race? Not unless you like bucked off, bitten or run in circles. Let’s approach this set of instructions like a potential skittish horse, get to know each other a little. [...]

Knitting Tips--Warning, Don't Do It, Top 10 Reasons NOT to Knit

Some folks would have you believe you can save the planet, not to mention your own sanity, by taking up knitting. No one warns you of the evils. They are legion. For my best knitting tips of all, see this list of the top ten reasons NOT to knit. [...]