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Learning a new skill or technique is always on our personal to do list. Here are some ideas and pointers to get you started.

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Beads and jewelry

- How to knit your own jewelry

- How to knit with beads


Cleaning/caring for yarn

- Dirty work: how to clean knitted garments

- Eucalan woolwash

- Kookaburra woolwash

- Soak woolwash

- Unicorn Fibre Wash and Fibre Rinse


Colors

- Creating colors in yarn: an introduction to natural dyes

- What colors say about us


Dyeing

- Buying hand-dyed yarns

- Dye your own semisolid sock yarn with Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit

- Dye workshop: make your own Kool Aid colors

- Fiber-dyeing resources

- An introduction to natural dye


Felting/Fulling

- Fulling knitted garments

- Charlie's Christmas Stocking, a felted pattern by Cat Bordhi


Inspiration

- How to overcome knitting slumps

- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers


Lace

- The essentials of knitted lace

- Free one-skein shawl pattern

 
Leftovers

- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers


Needles

- Getting started with double-pointed needles

- How to make your own circular needles


Publishing

- How to publish designs in knitwear magazines

- Writing and publishing a successful knitting-oriented book


Socks

- How to knit socks

- How to pick the perfect sock yarn

- How to use semisolid yarns in socks—Jane's Hedgerows sock pattern

- How to dye your own semisolid sock yarn using Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit

- Charlie's Christmas Stocking, a pattern by Cat Bordhi


Spinning yarn

- How to spin yarn with a spindle

- How to spin yarn with a wheel


Stash management

- Sizing Up Oddballs How much yarn is in that skein?

- When the stash attacks: Creative techniques for concealing your yarns


Stranding

- When two yarns meet: the art of stranding for effect


Yarn substitutions

- How to make headache-free yarn substitutions

Featured how to

Washing Handknits:
Unicorn Fibre Wash and Fibre Rinse

soap by a sink
Fall is approaching, which means it's time to take our woolens out of storage and give them a good washing. We put this biodegradable, earth-friendly woolwash duo to the test.

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