This demo shows how to do spool knitting with yarn, but you can also do it with wire. I know, I’ve done it! Fun, but I never quite figured out how to integrate spool knitting with my jewelry designs. Anyway, here is how it’s done:

There is some pretty amazing jewelry being made by knitting or crocheting with wire. Want to try for yourself? Here are some online resources and books to check out. Books: Arline Fisch’s book, Textile Techniques in Metal – one of my all-time favorite books, period. Fisch’s more recent book, Crocheted Wire Jewelry: Innovative Designs & [...]

I think I have discovered the best brand of yarn EVER for jewelry designers – Habu. It is imported from Japan, where it’s sold under a different name, and the line has more thread-weight and lace-weight yarns than I’ve seen anywhere else. Also, they have really interesting fibers – one yarn is a silk and [...]

I’ve never knit a sweater, mainly because I’m intimidated with the whole sleeve shaping, getting exact stitch gauge, getting the fit right, and just the amount of time it would take me to finish one. (I’m currently attempting a sleeveless top, and I keep ripping out what I’ve done because it’s not quite right.) The [...]

I’ve been knitting a lot lately, trying to get good enough at it to make some really cool knitted jewelry designs. That means using lots of very thin yarn – some is so thin I’m inclined to call it thread rather than yarn. Thin yarn can be tricky, especially with the bamboo needles I use [...]

I mentioned the book One-Skein Wonders recently in a post about a scarf I made using one of the patterns in the book. I love this book. I enjoy knitting, but I’m not as good at it as, say, my mom, so if I’m going to finish a project, it usually has to be something [...]

My son has been wanting to take naps in my lap lately, so I decided to start a small knitting project that I could work on while he sleeps. I found a cute scarf pattern with ruffled edges in One-Skein Wonders, a great book of projects that use single balls of yarn. (I’ll write more [...]