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    Blogposts & Knitting Notes

    Notes, hints and tips you can use for all your knitting projects.

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    Index
    Click here for a full blogpost index​
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    Knitting Techniques:
    1: Joining in Yarns
    2: Using doubled yarns – Seeing Double Series
    3: Working Yarn-Overs
    4: Hand-Dyeing Yarns​
    5: Blending colours
    ​    6: Reversible colours​

    Scarves:
    1: How long shall I make this scarf?
    2: How much yarn do I need for a scarf?
    3: The Four-Way Wrap​
    4: Using reversible stitches for scarves
    ​5: Mœbius Scarves
    ​    6: Lengthwise Scarves 

    Bags:
    ​1: Bags of Bags!
    ​    2: Fibonacci stripes
    ​    3: Market Bag Knit-along
    ​    4: Adding a Fabric Liner

    Useful size guides:
    1. Blanket sizes
    2. Rug sizes
    ​    3: Cushion ideas & sizes

    Other fun posts:
    ​1. Filling a hot water bottle
    2. No time to knit a scarf
    3. Second-Sock Syndrome

    Blogpost Index: here.
    Archive listing: ​see below

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    Reversible Knitting Stitches by Moira Ravenscroft & Anna Ravenscroft, Wyndlestraw Designs
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    Archives

    2025:
    ​◌ It's Spring-time in Wiltshire

    2024:
    ​◌ Reversible Colours
    ◌ A new website and a new scarf
    ◌ ​Knitting a lengthwise scarf​​

    2021:
    ... Seeing Double Series:​
    ◌ #1: Knitting with two ends of yarn
    ​◌ #2: Using two ends of yarn for added warmth
    ​◌ #3: It's good to have options
    ​◌ #4: Blending colours with doubled yarns
    ​◌ #5: Mixing it up
    ​◌ #6: Mix n' Match sets
    ​◌ #7: Tips and techniques for working with doubled yarns

    2019:
    ​◌ Slip those stitches!
    ​◌ Are you using the right needle?
    ​◌ Straightening crinkly yarn
    ​◌ Add a twist to your knitting
    ​◌ How much yarn do I need for a scarf?

    2018:
    ​◌ Sorting the Second-Sock Syndrome

    2016:
    ... Colour Futures Series:
    ​◌ #1: Without the ocean
    ​◌ #2: The future of colour
    ​◌ #3: Tranquility, Strength & Optimism
    ​◌ #4: In the pink
    ​◌ #5: The future looks bright

    ​◌ Reversible Knitting Stitches – A different kind of stitch book
    ​◌ Let's (half) twist again

    2015:
    ​◌ A cushion for every season
    ​◌ How long can you wait?
    ​◌ How to fill a hot water bottle
    ​◌ A rug for every room
    ​◌ So it begins
    ​◌ No time to knit him a scarf
    ​    ​◌ A new knot for your tie

    2014:
    ... Summer Knitting Series:
    ​◌ #1: Summer knitting starts here
    ​◌ #2: Dyeing in the kitchen
    ​◌ #3: Why stop at one?
    ​◌ #4: The murmur of a cool stream
    ​◌ #5: Yarn Overs I have known
    ​◌ #6: Planning ahead
    ​◌ #7: Blanket coverage

    2013:
    ... Market Bag Knit-along:
    ​◌ #1: Pre-washing yarns
    ​◌ #2: Yarns & Gauge
    ​◌ #3: Provisional Cast-Ons
    ​◌ #4: Stitches & Selvedges
    ​◌ #5: Picking up stitches
    ​◌ #6: The Two-row SSK
    ​◌ #7: Handles & Finishing
    ​◌ #8: Adding a fabric lining to your bag

    ​◌ How long shall I make this scarf?
    ​◌ ​At the end of a row
    ​​◌ The Four-Way Wrap

    2012:
    ​◌ Either way up – Using reversible stitches for scarves
    ​◌ Reversible stripes

    2009:
    ​◌ Spiralling away

    2008: 
    ​◌ 16 years of blogposts!
    ​◌ Bags of Bags!
    ​◌ Fibonacci stripes
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