Get Ready! A lot is going on right now, and as the meme I’ve been seeing says, Get Ready! Knitters have been training our entire lives for this! Rather than aimlessly knit during the upcoming days, here are three ways to focus your mind and knitting. Get Ready! FestiKAL FestiKAL discounts started March 16 and runs…
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Pandemic Inspires Finishing Challenge
I came up with the idea of a personal finishing challenge last week. Was it only last week? It became clear that our upcoming trip to Europe (beginning in Italy) wasn’t going to happen, and as I laid awake one night, I decided I needed to make those weeks I was planning to be gone…
Refreshing News! New Patterns on the Horizon
Refreshing News from Jill Wolcott Knits! After a hiatus of a couple of months, I’m doing a blog, and releasing new patterns! Plus, I’m teaching a class on Yarnpreneur.com. If you’ve been following me, you know that I overthink almost everything. I decided to rework my pattern layout about two years ago, and we are…
Labor Day Signals Shift
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that Labor Day signals a shift. All year I’ve been saying “I can’t believe it is [fill in the blank for any month]! But Labor Day signals a mental shifting towards fall and winter and an associated slipping away of time. Labor Day is early this year–it feels…
Finishing Adjustments 1
Finishing adjustments can add that extra polish that makes your piece perfect. While not strictly sizing, the finishes are places that can have a huge impact on the way things fit, so I think that discussion fits here. This post considers finishing adjustments to the body, and I will get to sleeves will be discussed in another…
Finishing: Obstacles in Knitting
We all know how easy it is to get off track at the finishing point in almost any project. If boredom, new projects, or other frustrations haven’t gotten the best of us by this point, things can really get stalled at finishing. The end is so near, but can seem further away than ever. Finishing: The Most…
Casting On the Lisse Hat
If you read my newsletter last week (10/29/15) you know I wrote about about how to squeeze knitting Lisse Hat into your schedule. I figured I should try it too. Casting On the Lisse Hat I estimated it would take 11 hours to knit in last week’s newsletter. It ended up taking about 7 hours…
Spring Knitting Nears
I barely notice seasonal changes because I live in a place that suffers from moderate weather. Our temperature fluctuations are narrow, and the extremities are rarely either long in duration or all that extreme. 2015 has been unseasonably warm and sunny and we are loving it. Of course, we are going to have no…
Beginnings and Endings
Isn’t that just the totality of knitting? Or is it the broad space in-between the beginnings and endings? Most of us have no trouble with the beginnings; however, the endings can be problematic. I knitted this a couple of weeks ago. I drew this to help me see what I planned to do. Now…
Reviewing Knitting Progress
Building a knitting schedule is a good practice for meeting knitting goals. Checking in on knitting progress is another part of the goal-reaching process. I made a schedule a couple of weeks ago in the hope that I could get through a couple of knitting projects before the end of February. The checking in…
Seasonal Knitting
Apparently we get six more weeks of winter, so that means we have time to finish all those winter knits, right? This fits so well with what I’m trying to do right now with my knitting time! I’m going to think of the next six weeks as the remainder of my Winter Knitting Season, which will take…
Project Finishing Tool Tips
I’m doing a bunch of project finishing, so it seemed appropriate to pass on some finishing tips that anyone can use. Below is what I had at the ready for project finishing of the Windsor Capelette, which had no seaming. Project finishing has been completed and the sample has gone off to Vice Yarn for…
