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undersea

"Undersea Tawashi Collection"

6 patterns, $4.50

flowers

"3 Flower Tawashi"

3 patterns, $3.50

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Knitting basics 1 - Garter stitch earwarmer part 2

On Wednesday we began our first knitting lesson with casting on, how to knit, how to make an increase, and some pattern abbreviations. Today let’s finish off our project with two types of decrease stitch, and how to bind off. First let’s recap our pattern:

co 5 and knit 3 rows

Increase section

row 1: [...]

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3 problems every beginning knitter has – and how to fix them

Everybody does it – when you first start out knitting, you find yourself gaining stitches, losing stitches, or finding holes in your knitting. Well, today we’re going to troubleshoot your knitting, and find out how to fix the three most common knitting problems.

1. I have more stitches that I started with!

There are three [...]

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Knitting basics 1 - cosy garter-stitch earwarmer

I'm not photogenic!

In this quick and simple project, we’ll learn how to knit, how to cast on using the backward loop method, how to make an increase and 2 types of decrease, and how to bind off. We’ll also look at how to begin deciphering the mysterious code that knitting patterns seem to [...]

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