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🧶The joy of the shift
Team Knit Stars,
Ghost Ranch Hat by Andrea Mowry, made by Sunnie. You need 1 skein Spincycle Dyed in the Wool + 1 skein Rowan Felted Tweed . Raise your hand if you remember your first skein of color-changing yarn! ✋ In the early days of Loops, it was Noro Kureyon. The yarn was scratchy AF, but you didn’t care… Beca…

2022 Community Stats
Ravelry,
Every year, the Ravelry community makes and shares incredible projects, and last year was no exception. In 2022 our Ravelry community: added 87,106 patterns to the Ravelry database , over 70,000 of which were published in 2022. This brings the total number of patterns in our database to

5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Yarn Color
Marie,
My favorite sweater bit the dust a few years ago. It was an ordinary store-bought cardigan – nothing special – except that it was green (more on that in a minute) and had a black and white striped ribbon on the underside of the button band. I freaking loved that sweater. I wore it until […]

🧶 11 Star tips for a stellar new year
Team Knit Stars,
“My favorite project I made this year was the Brookline Blouse by Kate (@mezzomakes) in Loops Luxe Plant-Based Princess in the colorway Cottonwood.” This project kept my mind calm and hands busy in the days following a bad car accident. It was also my first non-wool project and kept me stylish all …

The Road To Restock
Kel Moore,
In late 2021, G.J. Littlewood & Son, Inc., the historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dye house that stock dyed the wool used to make Shelter, Loft, Quarry, Tones and Imbue, permanently closed due to severe flood damage sustained in September's Hurricane Ida.⁠ Suddenly, two-thirds of our yarn lineup …

🧶 Looking forward (and back!)
Team Knit Stars,
This week’s Moving the Needle is authored by Knit Stars Ops Manager Sunnie - shown here, "finally getting to meet Knit Stars Season 2 alum Andrea Mowry at Rhinebeck after test-knitting for her for 2 years! As you can see, I definitely played it very, very cool.” 2023. Wowza. I don’t know about you,…

Take One Thing
Lynne Rowe,
My word of the year is Focus. By doing one thing at a time to reduce my stash yarn and works in progress

So Long!
Andi,
Untangling Knots is closing for business, and patterns and collections are no longer available for purchase. I can’t thank you all enough for your support over the years. This blog will remain up for the foreseeable future as an asset for knitters. Happy knitting!

Eye Candy: Look at the Puffs!
Ravelry,
IsleStitch's Marshmallow Skies Sweater Inspired by my love of Anne of Green Gables , I've always had a fondness for puffed sleeves. Searching through recently completed projects , sweaters with voluminous puffed sleeves stood out to me as both cozy and distinctive. I love the confident smiles and

Tips for Knitting with Linen
Donna Estin,
Knitting with linen feels different but with a few tips, you can love the process. And I promise you will completely fall in love with...

Lengthen store-bought or handmade knits with this knitting trick!
Dayana Knits (noreply@blogger.com),
No matter how hard you measure, repeatedly try on your knits, or promise your first-born sweater in a devil deal... sleeve length rarely plays nice! If you are hand knitting a garment, there are two ways to invisibly lengthen sleeves: Top-down? You lucky knitter, just unravel your bind-off and keep…

Merry Christmas - And an Oldie But Goodie Freebie Project to Knit
noreply@blogger.com (Diana L. Sullivan, CPA),
Hello, dear fellow knitters, and Merry, Merry Christmas! Over the years, since I've been teaching machine knitting online, I've got to know quite a few of you.  You are very important to me. I do hope you are having an absolutely beautiful holiday and that your heart is filled with the hope, love a…

All the best....
Stana D. S. (noreply@blogger.com),
to you all, who continue to read my blog throughout all those years, or who stopped by to check out my free knitting patterns. I hope that your year of 2022 has been a good one and you are going to have pleasant and safe last days of this year. As another year is coming to an end, I look back to wh…

My Organised Chaos Set has been released!
BexKnittyDesign (noreply@blogger.com),
Today sees the release of the ' Organised Chaos Set ' , available in my Ravelry store ' Bex Knitty Design ' and shortly also on LoveCrafts.com! This set comprises of a headband and jar/pot/cup cosy full of entwining twisted stitches making for a seemingly chaotic tangled trail, but which is in fa…

Ivy’s Sunset
Alina,
The holiday week is continuing here at For the Love of Knitwear and today’s pattern for holiday sale is Ivy sweater. The knitwear is meant to be worn for years - I published Ivy back in 2017 as a part of Moeke Yarns Doina Collection and it is still being worn and cherished 5 years later. For me it …