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Why Seam When You Can Go Seamless?

Seamless Sally, that’s my name because damn a seam! LOL! Hi guys!! Today I want to talk about seams or the lack thereof? Y’all with me? I wrote a blog post some years ago about seaming. I was a fairly new knitter and was terrified of the kitchener stitch. WAS?? Ha! who am I kidding? […]

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The Secret to the Herringbone Stitch

This stitch is taking me through it. As you know I am currently working on the Secret Love Shawl with the new yarn from Wool and the Gang. The yarn is called Tina. I am using the Vitamin C color of course and I did a tutorial on this stitch. Well, I have spent some

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How to knit the Herringbone stitch|Technique Tuesday

  It’s Tuesday, let’s talk about techniques. On the surface knitting seems very simple because you only have the Knit stitch and the Purl stitch right? Ha! Not hardly. There are so many ways to combine those two stitches to produce some amazing material. I am currently working in the Secret Love Shawl from Wool

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Blocking matters: how do you block your projects?

Blocking matters, it really does and I know this now, more than I did before. I use bulky yarns and mostly make cowls which don’t normally require blocking. Well there was that one cowl that I had to block, it was the So Faux Cowl by Amy Keefer. If I remember correctly I probably sprayed

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How to Knit S1, K1, YO, PSSO

  If you are following me, you know I have been learning to knit shawls. I have found there are so many different ways to make a shawl. You can knit bottom up, side to side or on the bias; to name a few. My favorite has been the easiest shawl ever, which is from

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Seam or not to seam? That is the question

Hello and welcome to the first #TechniqueTuesday of the year. I have a question, to seam or not to seam..what do you do? I always post a Technique on my Facebook page but I have to do better at including it here as well. I am a work in progress so bare with me, ok?

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