Category: technique

  • make tidy needles and hooks

    make tidy needles and hooks

    With curious cats and foster kittens in my house, it’s very important that I keep tools tidy and put away. By giving my needles and hooks a consistent home I’ve also eliminated the time wasted in looking for them and also stopped buying yet another set of size 2mm needles because they hadn’t been put…

  • technique tuesday: weaving in ends

    technique tuesday: weaving in ends

    I planned to do a nice tutorial about weaving in ends for both knit and crochet this week, using my granny log cabin as my example. Unfortunately mother nature had other plans, a nor’easter has blown through and getting decent photos proved impossible. When I tried again this afternoon because the light seemed better, Shadow…

  • technique tuesday: rule breaking chains

    technique tuesday: rule breaking chains

    Is it a ch-2 or a ch-3 for turning in double crochet? Does it matter? Where can you work the last stitch of a row?