Never Too Young!

Katie has been visiting our Wednesday afternoon group with her mom this summer. Her mom taught her to knit early on her summer vacation, and our regular group members have been pleased to watch her progress as she has knitted a bow for her hair and a couple of cute tops for her stuffed animals.

Well, the only thing to do was to enhance this young knitter's stash straightaway. So each group member gave Katie a ball of yarn, a book, or a notion for her knitting bag. Now she is ready to face the school year with plenty of projects.

With each day I'm surprised by the generosity of our little community. How we encourage and care for each other! It's a beautiful thing.

Double Wrap Stitch

This is a fairly common method of creating elongated stitches that we have used in a scarf pattern on our free pattern page.

For the purposes of this tutorial, I have used my mad Photoshop skillz to color the working yarn pink.

Ready to start the double-wrapped stitch! Yarn in back of work, ready to knit.

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Insert the right needle knit-wise into the next stitch.

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Wrap the working yarn around both needles (same direction as when you are knitting a stitch.)

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Wrap the yarn a second time, but this time just around the right needle (in the manner of a regular knit stitch).

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Pull the second wrap through (knit it!)

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Stitch N Pitch

Shawls & Scarves is in!

If you have been waiting for a copy of the book, Shawls & Scarves: Best of Knitter's Magazine, we've got them in! Get your copy now, they tend to go quickly.
This was the book Susan used for her Shetland Shawl.