Knitting

Carded cashmere and cashmere blend yarns can be worked well in the weft on the loom, but things become a little more complicated in the warp, where the tension is such that many of the carded cashmere yarns, due to their delicate structure, are weak to work with. and...

YOU NEED (for a size 42): 230 gr. of yarn, color of your choice, needles no. 3, three pink buttons. POINTS USED WITH NEEDLES: tubular stitch (cast on). Rib stitch 1/1. stockinette stitch with thread (worked on 10 sts.) 1st row (k. of work): *8 knit sts, 1 simple...

It's still January, right? Ok, so I present to you another idea for the scarf, again with the C2C crochet technique, but this time it will be the scarf FOR HIM. What distinguishes a scarf for him from a scarf for her? Not much today, I think... however if we really...

YOU NEED (for a size 42): 400 gr. of yarn, color of your choice, needles no. 3 and no. 5. Search yarn here POINTS USED WITH NEEDLES: Tubular stitch (cast on). Tie. Fancy stitch (works on 16 sts.); work as per the diagram, keeping in mind that: | = 1 m. dir. – = 1 m....

I have long loved yarn in all its various forms, but a recent step into spinning has got me thinking more deeply about the raw material that turns into that object of desire. To learn to spin is to learn about fiber, and this book is a wonderful reference about that...

Almost everyone who knits can testify to what scientific research has tried to prove for years: knitting has therapeutic properties. It is not difficult to get lost in the relaxing and repetitive movements of the fingers, threads and needles. Knitwear has been...

YOU NEED: (for a size 42) 200 gr. of yarn, color of your choice, Needles n. 4 POINTS USED: Stockinette stitch. Fantasy Stitch (work on 9 sts. + 8 sts.) work. as per the diagram, keeping in mind that: | = 1 m. dir. _ = 1 m. reverse = 1 m. acc. simple (slip 1 knit st...

Our journey into the therapeutic properties of knitting continues. It may seem bizarre, but in reality it is not so, in fact there are other activities, only apparently not demanding, which have therapeutic properties especially for stress, depression and tension. One...

It is not uncommon for a person who loves knitting to remember that, for example, a scarf was made after a break-up with someone, or after a death in the family. It's a bit like saying that these objects contain emotions in every "point". After the tragedy of...

Knitting is an easy and very exciting hobby. Many think that it is only suitable for grannies, while instead a trend called knitting comes from the United States. It's a trend that has come back into fashion recently, just think that Russell Crowe uses knitting...

So far we have talked about cashmere, i.e. the raw material, and its product characteristics. Now we want to see what can be produced with this raw material. There are so many things. From knitwear to accessories (such as scarves). Cashmere knitwear gives a truly...

During the spinning process, exactly during the mixing or blending, "buttons" of various sizes can be added which will give a dot effect to the yarn. Buttons or also called dots, are small balls of fibre, generally silk, cashmere or wool for fine, colored yarns which...