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…
Mixing Yarns, Second Chance Skeins
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…
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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…
Yarn Management
Mystery Yarns and Measuring Yardage: or, How Many Yards of This Yarn Do I Have? Part 2
The Solution In the previous post, I showed how we need to find a conversion factor (CF), which is just a number that allows us to convert the weight of a ball of yarn to length — and for that we need to be able to accurately weigh something that weighs very little, in order…
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Mystery Yarns and Measuring Yardage: or, How Many Yards of This Yarn Do I Have? Part 1
The Problem How many of us have a partial ball of yarn and don’t know how many yards it is? OK, everyone put your hands down. Determining how many yards there are in a partial ball or mystery ball is one of knitting’s universal problems. There are plenty of posts out there, covering a variety…
Yarn Management
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. …