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  • Yarn Review: Lion Brand Ice Cream

    Lion Brand Yarns are commonly found at big box general stores and big box craft stores. You can easily browse their selection on their website, which also features free patterns. The price you see on Lion Brand’s website might not be what you pay in stores, especially since big craft…

  • What Does Brother Punch Card 1M Look Like?

    Punch cards for knitting machines are magical, but have you ever had trouble visualizing the patterns they make? Those holes and spaces don’t translate to much inside my head for anything but fair isle patterns. Even though I know what tuck and skip stitches are, I just can’t see them.…

  • Yarn Review: Silk City Fibers Cotton Bambu

    Silk City Fibers is a wholesale coned yarn retailer that boasts more than 50 types of luxury yarn for knitting and weaving. Known in the past for their 100% rayon chenille yarn, they became part of Orchard Yarn & Thread Company, Inc., better known as Lion Brand Yarn Company in…

  • Finding Machine Knitting Patterns on Ravelry

    From colorwork trends to brioche fads, you can find nearly everything knitting, crochet, or yarn-related on ravelry.com. I’ve been a user for years now, and I can spend hours looking through patterns, projects, and yarn pages. Ravelry has over 600K hand knitting patterns and is quickly closing in on 400K…

  • How I Swatch Yarn

    There are SO MANY different methods floating around about how to swatch your yarn, but the one I’m about to share with you is the best one I’ve learned yet. It can take a bit of extra time and scrap yarn (let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a ton of…

  • Review: Machine Knitting Monthly – February 21 – Issue 277

    Welcome to the first of many review posts! Today we’re looking at the February 2021 edition of UK-based Machine Knitting Monthly. This post will also be a bit of an overview of what the magazine has to offer. I’ve been a subscriber to this magazine for over a year, and…

  • So you’ve inherited a knitting machine… now what? Starting from Scratch with Machine Knitting.

    There are so many things to consider when you find yourself with a knitting machine. What even is it? It says it’s a machine that knits in the name, but how does it do that? What if you don’t hand knit? Where do you find the yarn? How much space…