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Bamboo Circular Knitting Needles at Bargain Prices

Written by Knitting Stitches on September 17th, 2009

Instead of paying craft store prices for single packages of circular knitting needles, you can complete your collection with these bargain-priced bamboo circular needle sets.

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The Knitter’s Guide to Wool

Written by Knitting Stitches on August 31st, 2009

Wool, a natural yarn is the probably the most popular yarn around today. In this complete guide to wool passionate wool expert Clara Parkes translates the vast world of sheep and their wool into the language and context of knitting.

The Knitter’s Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this Most Fabulous Fiber takes you from the basics of what is wool, who makes it, which type of yarn to use and what and how you knit with it. You’ll learn the fundamentals: what wool is made of, how it gets off the sheep, and how it is transformed from a jumbled mass of dirty fluff into a gorgeous yarn that so tempts us at our local yarn stores. You’ll be introduced to how to best knit with yarns made from wool fibers.

If only there were a way to read a skein to know how it would behave and what it wanted to become. Now there is. The Knitter’s Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this Most Fabulous Fiber demystifies the generic (non-breed-specific) wool yarn you’ll find at your local yarn shop, showing you how to best determine what every yarn longs to be.

The book also includes 20 patterns that highlight the qualities of specific types of wool. The Knitter’s Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this Most Fabulous Fiber teaches you everything you need to know about wool – and its journey from pasture to pullover. The next time you pick up a skein, you won’t have to wonder what to create with it. You’ll just know.

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