How confident are you when it comes to your knitting? When you see a pattern that uses an unfamiliar technique, do you dive straight in? Or do you find yourself knitting the same sorts of projects over and over again? Our brand-new technique-based programme Confident Knitting: A Third Year of Techniques is all about helping you find something new in your knitting, using designs from talented knitters from around the world to help you learn new techniques. Confident Knitting will let you add some shiny new tools to your knitting tool kit and, in the process, give your knitting confidence a big ol’ boost so that you feel ready to tackle any knitting challenge that comes your way!
Read moreA Look at Our Books: A Year of Techniques + Boost Your Knitting
If you’re subscribed to our newsletter or frequent our forum, The Knitalong Hub, you’ll know that we’re working really hard behind the scenes preparing for the launch of our newest project. We cannot wait to tell you all about in a very short time. But while we wait, I thought it might be nice to have a peek into our two flagship books, A Year of Techniques and Boost Your Knitting. I call them books, but really they’re more than that … they’re self-contained programmes carefully designed to help you sharpen your knitting skills. So while there’s beautiful patterns by talented designers, to be sure, there are also in-depth, stepwise photo tutorials + video tutorials that will teach you new techniques. Our mission is to empower knitters to unlock their full knitting potential, and these books are really at the heart of that endeavour.
Read moreThe Huddle Hat by Natalie Warner
Well, dear knitters, it’s hard to believe, but the time has come to meet the last of the Something To Knit Together Winter Edition patterns! Gather round and say hello to the Huddle Hat, the fifth and final pattern from Natalie Warner for this collection!
Read moreLow-Tech Lace Blocking (A Video Tutorial)
Blocking is a magical process that converts a cast off piece of knitting into a fully-fledged finished object. There are few knitted items that won’t benefit from a soak or a steam, but it’s especially transformative with lace knitting. After all the careful work you’ve done whipping up beautiful lace, it’s really worth it to take the extra bit of time to block it so your handiwork really shines! There are tools you can use — wires, pin combs — to help you on your way, but today, I’ve got a video showing you how to do it with minimal kit
Read moreBehind The Knitting: How To Keep Your Needles Organised
Knitting needles can be slippery beasts. How often have you gone to start a knitting project only to find that one of your straight needles or DPNs has sloped off leaving no hint of its whereabouts? Or been ready to move from jumper hem to body only to realise, to your horror, that the circular needle you need next is kinked up beyond recognition? Or, my personal favourite, how often have you called a knitting needle amnesty, gathering up needles from the various corners of your house, only to learn that for inexplicable reasons, you’ve somehow collected six pairs of 6 mm (US 10) needles, despite the fact you rarely knit with anything heavier than a DK-weight yarn?
Read moreGet Your Seam On! (A trio of sweater-finishing video tutorials)
While it might seem a little early to be talking about joining up the pieces of your Unite Sweater or Reunite Cardigan, honestly, these garments knit up so quickly in Something To Knit With Aran, you’re going to be ready to sew up before you know it. So today, we’ve got not one, not two, but three video tutorials in which Jen shows you how to bring together your sweater or cardigan without breaking a sweat!
Read moreA Quick Tip for Sweater Success!
We’ve been so excited about the release of Natalie Warner’s Unite Sweater and Reunite Cardigan here around A-C Knitwear HQ, and we’ve loved seeing people’s enthusiastic response to this pair of gorgeous garments. Have you cast on? Are you planning to? Well today I have a simple tip for you, something you can do before you cast on your first stitch (though if you’ve already cast on, it’s not too late) that will set you up for sweater greatness.
Read moreThe Unite Sweater and Reunite Cardigan by Natalie Warner
Hello and happy New Year! Ready to cast on a new garment for 2021? Perhaps a cosy sweater to pull on? Or a terrifically textured cardigan to layer up with? Well, it’s Something To Knit Together Winter Edition pattern release day, and this week, we’re bringing you two patterns, so whether you’re team sweater or team cardigan there’s something for you. Say hello to the Unite Sweater and Reunite Cardigan, both designed by Natalie Warner!
Read moreCustomers buying from the EU from 2021
This is not one of our usual blog posts and, unless you are an EU resident or have an interest in post-Brexit trade, this is probably not relevant to you. Normal service will be resumed next time…
Read moreKnitting How-To: Picking Up Stitches
One of the really fun details of Natalie Warner’s Fond Mittens, the latest pattern from Something To Knit Together Winter Edition, is the cable detail with which they begin. To achieve it, you start by knitting a cable strip, then pick up stitches along the row ends to begin knitting the mitten cuff. Today, we bring you a video tutorial to perfect your picking up technique!
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