Category: Tips and Tricks
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Twelve Tips for Stitching When Your Hands Hurt
I have a genetic connective tissue disorder. It’s not going to get better. It will probably get worse. I’m not going to stop what brings me joy, but I do have to listen to my body’s pain and adapt. Machine knitting allows me to do a lot on bad days,…
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Choosing Colors
In my last post I showcased a project where I used NINE colors to push my creative boundaries. I ended that post feeling more confident, but when I went to choose colors for my next colorwork project, I found myself even more color-shy than before! Since I’m still not convinced…
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Organizing My Studio: The Main Room
We moved to our new place last year, and I have a studio! Yay! It’s a small building around 400 square feet just steps from our garage. It’s been a dream come true having a large, dedicated machine knitting space and not just a small craft room, but it’s a…
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Finding Cone Yarn
Knitting machines can use a range of yarn from all kinds of put-ups like we saw in my last post, but the easiest and best put-up for machine knitting is cone yarn. Cones don’t need extra preparation before use, have more yardage in general, and often feature unique textures or…
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Your YARN is the Problem — Part One: Hand Knitting Yarn Prep
You might have encountered one of these problems before: the yarn stopped flowing through the tension unit and the tension wire bent all the way towards the carriage and needle bed, the carriage jammed, an entire row knitted at a much tighter tension than you wanted, the yarn broke. If you…
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