I know it is EXTREMELY scary to spread your knitting out to be blocked and find that IT IS YUUUUGE! Yup. Happens every time. DO NOT let it dry huge only to HATE it and then pull it out. You can ABSOLUTELY put it back to the right size! Here is a quick...

I risk this MOST of the time. I buy 5 skeins of a hand-dyed yarn to make a sweater, and go serially through each skein as you normally would!  I've gotten pretty good at opening the skeins in the shop before I buy them, and make sure they all look alike. BUT....

If you SAW the photo for the Love Socks Knit Along, and you SAW the little baby version, and you FELL right in love, here is how I made them!! First, I used the Baby Socks pattern by Kate Atherley so I would know how many to cast on, how to do the heel flap, etc. I...

By Dorian Owen A couple years ago I logged all of my yarn into Ravelry as an easy way to keep track of it all. It’s handy to determine if you have the yarn for the project you want to make, or if you get to go shopping (!). Then I hit the dreaded “Export to Excel”...