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February 12, 2019March 9, 2019 - stashaholic

How to easily pick up stitches in knitting

image of knitting with stitches being picked up

How to easily pick up an even number of stitches along the length of your knitting.

Posted in Helpful Tips, Knit
June 12, 2005November 3, 2014 - stashaholic

Hot Time Summer in the City

I started a summer sweater today – this means that I’ll finish it sometime around December 🙂 I wanted to share with you a couple of things that I do when I’m working on garments. One I’ve told you of already, (the Stashaholic’s way of measuring), and the other is to pin on post itRead more

Posted in Crochet, Helpful Tips
May 17, 2005 - stashaholic

Measuring Up – the Stashaholic Way :-)

I posted this on crochetville.org, but I thought I’d share it with you too. Instead of hunting for your measuring tape every time you need to measure to see if you’ve reached 16″ or however long the torture is… Tie a non-stretchy yarn (cotton works best) to the first row you have to measure fromRead more

Posted in Crochet, Helpful Tips
March 3, 2005November 3, 2014 - stashaholic

The Great Koolaid Experiment

I found some wool in my mom’s stash, so I decided to experiment. Now, the wool was quite grotty (it was labeled 1976), so I’m not sure how it will work up. It was quite fragile while I was rolling into the skeins… I took some Tropical Punch Koolaid and followed the instructions on thisRead more

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