More Knitting Secrets Revealed ...

We recently asked our customers to share their KNITTING SECRETS with us and what a response we received!

Congratulations and a $10 Gift Certificate is awarded to :

* Glenda Clemens
* Linda Rini
* Raven Norejko
* Theresa Turnbull
* Susan Schutz
* Mary Adams

Many thanks to all , and here are the winning KNITTING SECRETS:

Loom knitting is getting downright trendy and of course I had to give it a try. The part I found most frustrating was repeatedly fumbling with that darn knot peg at every row. I picked up a package of tiny child sized spring loaded hair clippies, the sort with curved teeth, at the dollar store. They are the perfect size and strong enough to hold the yarn securely on the tie peg without that cumbersome knot trick!

I always try to pull the yarn from the centre..that way I can put it in a plastic grocery bag and have the yarn coming out of the handles,or use a a large plastic bottle or container,cut a hole in the cover and feed the yarn through the cover to use.That way it keeps it from curious claws and dust bunnies!

When knitting a cardigan I use the short row technique to knit the button and button hole bands on at the same time. Every 4 or 5 rows I'll knit to the band, turn and go back. This way, I can knit the 1x1 ribbing along with the sweater and not have the ribbing be too long causing the sweater to be longer along the front edges


When knitting a shawl, Use size 19 needles and after every 4-6 rows knit one row of a dropped stitch for a looser more lacy efect! I use a variety of yarns and lots of your gorgeous eyelash mixed in and they come out really nice

I love to crochet and I love to knit but hate to cast on and bind off. I chain the number of cast on stiches I need, pull up the loops through the chain to cast on. To bind off I use a crochet hook with one knitting needle. Both edges are wonderfully finished with more consistent tension.

I, like most knitters, HATE knitting that first row. It is so close to the needle and most times extremely tight and hard to get your needle into the stitches. To eliminate this problem, I have learned to always hold two needles together to do the cast on. Once the appropriate number of stitches have been casted on, I remove one of the needles and proceed to start knitting. The stitches being knitted are not too tight and there is no stuggling with that first row!

Have a KNITTING SECRET you'd like to share? Send it to us and if we publish it in a future newsletter, we'll give you a $10 Gift Certificate good on a future purchase!

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