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I love peach season, and personally, I think Ontario peaches are the best (my apologies to the B.C. peach lovers out there). Niagara Peach Pie from Monarch Tea Co. channels exactly those things. While I’m a dedicated hot tea lover during the colder months, I love making this tea as a cold brew to sip alongside my summer knits.
The Little Knit Apples is a fruit sprite, observed in apple orchards in late summer and early fall. Notable characteristics include tiny eyes and short, stick-like legs. Shows a preference for sitting on window sills and admiring wildflower bouquets. The apples are constructed with small amounts of yarn, making them particularly well-suited for stash-busting and using up leftovers from other…
Recently, I posted about how I upgraded my knitting needle storage system after running out of room in my old roll case, and I realized I haven’t shared a post about all the options for storing your knitting needles! Even if you’re not knitting for your job, it’s easy to end up with a bunch of needle sets lying around. And the last thing you want to encounter when starting a project is that you’ve…
The wonderful thing about knitting is that it opens up the world in all kinds of ways, from new techniques to learn to unique travel destinations. If you, like me, are the kind of person who struggles to keep all your thoughts organized in your head, creating a knitting bucket list can be a great way to keep track of all your goals and actually start working towards them. I’ll be writing and…
Back when I first started knitting (once I had more than one set of DPNs), I purchased a knitting needle roll case for storage. And it served me very, very well for many years. But since I purchased all three interchangeable sets of from SeeknitKA, I encountered a problem. I had ran out of room.
The thing that truly makes a stuffed animal is, well, the stuffing! But it can be a lot harder to come by plushie filling than plushie yarns or notions. So what do you use? And where do you find it? Here are the options I’ve discovered over the years.
For the most part, I picture my knit stuffed animal patterns as becoming friends for adults, not kids. I think this often surprises people, since plushies are usually associated with little ones, but I usually imagine my designs ending up as someone’s desk buddy, bookshelf decoration, or knitting companion. So what actually differentiates my plushie patterns from being a toy?
Lots of yarn ball bands have little certification logos on them. We generally interpret them to be good things, but what do they actually mean? Each certification comes with its own set of requirements that the production and fibre content must achieve. I’ll be going through the common certifications to explain who determines the requirements, what they are, and some of the yarns that it, so you…
My knitting has always been heavily inspired by the seasons (hence why I keep writing posts about seasonal knitting), since both clothing and making have always felt like easy ways to tap into the world around me. And while summer may not be peak knitting season in the studio, I still have a few things that I love to repeat each year in my knitting habits.
Even after a few years of knitting, starting your first stuffed animal can be intimidating. There are new skills to learn and new mistakes to watch for. Plus, something about your project having a face makes it feel more personal if you mess up than a sweater or a sock. When I first started making plushies, these are the things I wish someone had told me.
