Archive for the ‘ Knitting/Crocheting ’ Category

Knitmonster

The KnitMonster name for my knitting site refers to the knitting compulsion. It also refers to me, because I’m occasionally a knitting machine and produce a high volume of work; and, because of the nickname a coworker gave me, Jenzilla (he meant it affectionately, I swear!). Anyway, as I posted previously, I’ve been working on [ READ MORE ]

Amigurumi origami

I’m working on a knit amigurumi pattern. I’m trying to simplify it down as much as possible, working from a basic knit rectangle. What I’m going for it something so easy that a beginner knitter could do it because there’s no shaping in the knitting. The down side is that that means all the shaping [ READ MORE ]

Knitting vs. Crocheting

They’re really very similar. No, really, they are. I know many people are extremely attached to one but not the other, to the point of animosity, even (I’m looking at you, knit snobs). Essentially, I like to describe the difference this way – in knitting, you carry all your stitches “live” on the needle, but [ READ MORE ]

Yay – oh, whoops.

My knitting site is getting a huge number of hits suddenly, which would be great, except the hits are coming from Crochet Pattern Central, and my patterns are all knit, not crochet. So now I need to convert my pink ribbon scarf pattern to crochet, and ideally I should do it quickly since Breast Cancer [ READ MORE ]

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