Bind-Offs: Great Endings to Your Knitting Project – Different Bind-Offs

Techniques for binding off are as numerous as techniques for casting on. There are bind-offs that produce firm edges, looser edges, stretchy edges, edges that look like the pattern stitch used, gathered edges, decorative edges, and bind-offs that join two edges together. It is wise to begin by learning a basic bind-off technique to use…

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Sock Tips, Pt. 2: Knit Charming Two-Tone Socks

Why are socks so popular to make right now? Socks are a great easy-to-carry project and they’re compact and satisfying to make. Over the next few months, we will be showing you different ways to embellish your sock patterns. In our first installment, we featured a basic, solid kids’ sock. In this article, we feature…

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Tune In This Monday: Vanna White Talks About Lion Brand, Crochet, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Tune in this Monday, June 10, to see Lion Brand spokesperson Vanna White talk about working with Lion Brand to create her signature line of yarns, her love of crochet, and our $1 million donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on her show, Wheel of Fortune! Vanna will show some footage of her visit to…

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