Baby Mittens Free Knitting Pattern

September 30, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

Written by Maz from The Knitting Times I am making an effort to use up leftover yarn. Like many, if not most, of you lovely readers, my home contains a rather a large collection of not only leftovers but new balls of delicious looking wool that were ‘accidentally’ purchased. Whilst collecting wool is surely the […]

A Skein of Yarn: wonderful or a bit of a pain?

August 30, 2024.Reading time 12 minutes.

In my possession I have quite a bit of yarn that has come in a skein rather than a ball. These skeins look so pretty – they show off the colours and textures within the yarn beautifully, and I have to say that there is an indulgent pleasure when one snips off the little bits […]

Return of the Knitted Tea Cosy

August 29, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

I remember time when a knitted tea cosy would have been considered old fashioned and, like many items highly regarded now as vintage, cast aside as a pointless item of yesteryear. I guess I am talking about the 1980s, the decade of extreme modernity when somehow beautiful old furniture was thrown out and replaced by […]