All Blog Posts Tagged 'picks' (5)

For my birthday this year, my daughter and granddaughter decided to give me yarn. Of course, being "newbie" knitters, they went to a big-box store and bought what looked expensive (to them). It was Lyon Brand Nature's Choice Organic Cotton (my daughter is also very into organic anything). Unfortunately, I tend toward lace, fingering and sport weight yarns and projects. I just didn't know what to knit with it, and the quantity did not fit anything I came up with. That is, until I remembered my Kn… Continue

I had a birthday last week and decided to use my birthday money and order the ball winder, swift,and some city tweed DK for a tea cozy, I love this yarn!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I love the way it feels, the texture,how it knits up. It has such an awesome sheen to it as well. I no… Continue

Yes, KP duty is an important part of knitting! I keep in touch with my knitting group by e-mail between meetings, which we have once a month. That means I do a lot of knitting in front of my laptop, connected to the internet. One advantage of the knitting group is that wh… Continue

So as most of you know I am the catalog manager for Knit Picks however I am a designer by trade so when we switched to new paper a few months ago I was so excited. The paper white improved, the tactile quality of the pages improved and then there is the technical side that allowed less bleed through on the pages all of which allows the hard work we put in on the back end a greater platform from which to shine... plus as an added bonus to it all the paper is manufactured under the guidelines of t… Continue

Since we just launched the brand new colors of Palette, one of my favorite yarns, I’ve been anxious to use it, but I don’t exactly want to make a big stranded sweater in the middle of summer. The solution: colorful mittens & gloves. Robin Melanson’s Knitting New Mittens & Gloves has quite a few great colorwork designs… Continue