See You in the Fall!

TessKnits.com and Second Chance Skeins are taking the summer off — look for us to be back in the fall with more workshops, a redesigned website, and online shopping! Click here for more info about Second Chance Skeins or visit www.secondchanceskeins.com to sign up to get an email when the shop is open and workshops…

Second Chance Skeins – Upcycled Art Yarn

I’m so excited to introduce Second Chance Skeins! where my love of yarn meets my love of re-use and SCRAP. (Also my love of glitz, sparkle, fur, and anything else that is over the top.) Second Chance Skeins are gorgeous, upcycled art yarn — similar to some commercial products out there, such as Prism’s Wild…

Perfection

I’ve seen two reposts of this today, with multiple comments to the effect of, “ha ha, I make plenty of mistakes already!” And this annoys me. Not the original post, as such, but the joking about how “bad” we are at what we do. One commenter even said she thought it was arrogant if you…

Taming Tangles: 5 Tips on How to Untangle Tangled Yarn

What is it exactly about a tangled mass of yarn that makes everyone itch to get their hands on it and start untangling? Well, maybe not everyone.  Usually, the person whose yarn it is has had it up to (wherever) with the tangles. But there are those of us who can hardly keep our hands off it. …