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I’ve received a few questions on how to stop the Malabrigo Waffles scarf from curling. Since it is a stockinette based pattern, the edges do want to curl in as you are knitting and wearing.
Blocking is the key here. I’ll explain my favorite way of blocking below, [...]

These cute guys are modified from Christine Manitz’s Easter Bunny pattern. The original pattern calls for the bunnies to be felted, but since most of my felting experiments end up slightly misshapen I wanted to make these bunnies non-felted to retain their cuteness.
For the most part I followed the pattern as written. [...]

As I’ve mentioned, I took a spinning class a few years ago and during the class I used a ball of roving that had four colors carded next to each other, so there was very little mixing of colors at the joins.

During the class, I decided to divide the colors and spin the yarn so [...]