Posts Tagged ‘Crafts’
Cable Knitting Without a Cable Needle- WOW!
September 30th, 2009 | 
Author: How many times have you wanted to knit some cute baby pattern but it required you to make cables. I am not sure why, but we are afraid of cables.
Maybe it is because we have to use THREE needles. Yes. two knitting needles and a cable needle. And sometimes you can’t find the cable needle that is the same size of the needles you are doing the main knitting on. So you just sort of fake it and make do with the size you have.
Well I am thrilled to share with you a fantastic find. Cabling without a cable needle. The following very short video explains how it is done. And the amazing thing you could adapt this to any baby knitting pattern, Use it as a trim or a part of the main body. Explore the possibilities. This makes an easy knitting pattern out of something more complicated. It is really cool!
I hope you become as excited about this as I am. Go knit something!
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Tags: baby knit pattern, baby knitting pattern, baby knitting patterns, Cable knitting, Crafts, Hand-knitting, knitting | 4 Comments »
When Yarn Is So Perfect, It Just Has To Be Yours
I had a most wonderful time on my vacation recently. My husband and did one of those stay-cations, you know where you stay home It was so nice. No packing, no huge laundry when I got home, minimal expense.
Well anyway, we did several daytrips and one of them was to a little tourist town in mid-state Michigan, called Frankenmuth. It is wonderful, it is an actual little German town that was settled over a hundred years ago. It is still a functioning town with their own government and fire station and police etc. but its bread and butter are the tourists. That would be me.
We make a pilgrimage to this town once a year. And I look forward to it for several months. Not only do they have the best food, quaint little ships, and friendly people, they have yarn!
Yes! Yarn. There is ship there called Rapunzel’s. It is a shop of the most extravagant yarns and patterns and needles and people that enjoy knitting and crocheting and they love to talk about it, show you how and give you examples. And they always have really great sales. They would have to because their yarn is so outrageous I can’t afford it. Oh sure, it is the coolest yarn, you know unusual yarns, alpaca, cashmere, huge hanks of yarn that will roll for you. Which of course is part of the whole experience.
Well I couldn’t wait to get there. I walked in and was greeted like an old friend. I started immediately to touch and smell and drool over all the beautiful selections. The ladies were showing me this and that patterns and what could be done with them. They are such great sales people, but I held my ground, I knew what I was going for.
And then there it was. The most beautiful yarn ever, a large hank of multi-colored soft fluffy wool, so soft, so beautiful. I loved it, it had to be mine.
But Wait! I firmly believe in never paying retail and I am a great shopper, so I walked slowly toward it, I lingered just at the edge of the table before I finally picked up that gorgeous yarn and flipped over the price tag and …….
Well what did you expect? Of course, it was the best deal in the store. I got that $28.50 hank of yarn for $12.00! Yes! It was on sale.
So what is the point of this little story? There is yarn out there that is calling your name, that is priced exactly right and is going to show when you want it most. When it just has to be yours… that is when it will find you.
Now go shopping and knit something perfect!
