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Creative Knitting
Patty's Purls Of Wisdom
Technique, etiquette and lifestyle advice for the modern knitter.
3 min |
Winter 2016
Creative Knitting
Make Your First Pair Of Socks From The Cuff Down
Learn sock-making from cast-on through bind-off in this comprehensive step-by-step tutorial.
5 min |
Winter 2016
Creative Knitting
Captivating Gradients: Freia Fine Handpaints
As a photography student back in the 1980s, Tina Whitmore discovered an insatiable appetite for color experimentation.
4 min |
Summer 2017
Creative Knitting
Sustainable Stitches
Being an educated consumer is tough. Being an educated green consumer is even tougher. In the past 10 years or so, the USDA has developed strict requirements for labeling products as “organic.” Truth-in-advertising laws help reassure consumers that products meet the manufacturers’ claims of natural materials, eco-friendly production and use of fair-business practices. But does the all-natural, vegan, eco-friendly bamboo, spun-bywomen’s-collective skein in my hand actually conform to all my assumptions about it? Or is it simply green marketing?
4 min |