Knitting How To

Catching up with Questions and Answers.  (Also, a little Q&A is a nice way to cover for a slow moving sweater.)Several people enquired: (And I’m paraphrasing and combining here) What happened with all those French Press Slippers? Did you finish…

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I just started bussiness under compony name of Orient Crafts,Inc. Product is wooden knitting needles,crochet hook,circular knitting needles,needles case,yarn etc
Wkn Crafting
"wooden knitting needles crafting"
Wokn Crafting
WOoden knitting needles
actually it sounds realli good. WOKN. wok, n

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I have tried many different cast on methods but I can never get the start to look as tight and put together as the bind off end. Anyone out there have a solution?
Samantha, There are two different crochet cast on methods (maybe even more but two that I know of). This is [...]

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I am in a cab, heading over to my Mum’s last night. My cab driver and I are having a chat  and since we are Canadian this means that we are culturally bound to discuss the weather, which is cold…

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I want to buy sets of circular and double pointed needles. What length should I buy? Will I be restricted in what I can knit by only having one length?
I never buy double pointed needles – I do socks, hats, mittens, etc with 2 – 24" circular needles. Most of the sock knitters I [...]

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Here’s a web site that has descriptions and videos of different ways to cast-off:

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A few years ago, Bookishgirl Wendy wrote here about throwing up the Knit-signal when you needed the knitting community. She said that she thought it was like Commissioner Gordon throwing up the Bat Signal when Gotham needed Batman.  She imagined…

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What kind of finish should I use on my hand painted knitting needles? a friend of mine used a varnish and it had hair line cracks in the varnish….
Keep your hand painted needles as a souvenir. It may not happen right away but soon your hands will wear the paint or any other finish [...]

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I’ve been trying many different ways to bind off, but they all are a little tight, and they have a "ridge" or hard edge. The cable cast on that I usually use has a much softer looking, stretchier edge. I’m wondering if there’s a way to bind off that looks more like a cable cast [...]

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I want you to know that whatever it is that challenges you today, or whatever ugliness you see or hear in the world around you, that whatever sadness threatens to overwhelm you and tries to convince you that the world…

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