Olive Knits

BREAKING UP WITH THE
BALL BAND

KNITTING MISTAKES ARE PART OF
THE PROCESS

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON "MORE YARN"

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU CAN'T
GET GAUGE

Blog, Fiber Musings / February 13, 2019

Break Up With The Ball Band

It’s time for a little truth-telling, my friend. We need to break up… with the ball band. You know the one. I want you to break up with the cute little band of paper tied to your skein of yarn. There’s a…

Blog, Fiber Musings / February 7, 2019

Knitting Mistakes Are Part of the Process

I talk about this a lot, but it’s one of the most common conversations that happens in my knitting community: knitters will go to almost any length to avoid making a mistake. We aren’t born knowing how to knit, any more than we…

Blog, Tips and Tricks / January 26, 2019

How To: Stitch Multiples for Knitted Ribbing

Raise your hand if you’ve ever faced down the knitting math monster and lost. Anyone? You can be cruising along, feeling pretty fly. The end is in sight. You’re SO close, you can almost taste the glory. But then, wham! You run into…

Blog, Fiber Musings / January 16, 2019

When Your Project Gets Kidnapped

This week a sweet knitter from my online knitting community experienced one of our fiber nightmares: her knitting bag was stolen. Right out of her car. In broad daylight. The thief smashed her car window and ran away with her project bag, along with the…

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