Crafter Stories: Crocheting at the Cafe

Last week, we brought you a few stories from our readers about their experiences knitting and crocheting in public. Today, we want to share a longer story from Jessica Leete of Orchard Park, NY. I often spend my weekend mornings at the local Starbucks for a few hours, enjoying my specialty coffee while working on…

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Making Sizing Changes to Scarves and Throws

Throughout this season, we’re reposting some of our favorite columns by Barbara Breiter, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting & Crocheting, previously featured in our Weekly Stitch newsletter. You have a throw pattern with a beautiful stitch pattern, but you’d like to make it wider or narrower. Or perhaps you’d like to make it into a…

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Video: How to Use Stitch Markers in Knitting & Crochet

Both knitters and crocheters may find stitch markers helpful for many reasons. They can help you… keep track of your stitch count (place them between every stitch repeat in a lace or cable pattern!) mark mistakes that need fixing (split ring markers work best for this) indicate the beginnings of the round on in-the-round projects…

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