Refuge Comfort Blanket – get your square patterns
At The Knitter office we are busily getting together all the patterns for this year's Comfort Blanket in aid of Refuge, our charity of the year. All you need to do to get the patterns is go to our Just...
View ArticleStashbusting ideas part 2
As we look forward to 2012 and the year of knitting that stretches ahead, we’re also considering tackling that mountain of yarn known as ‘the stash’. If you too are considering taking on stashbusting,...
View ArticleStashbusting ideas part 4
Happy New Year! We hope you’re over the hangover and up for some lovely knitting on this Bank Holiday Monday. If you’re thinking of getting stashbusting this year, take a look at these key tips and...
View ArticleOxfam appeals for knitted donations
You may have gathered by now that we at The Knitter are fans of knitting for charity, particularly knitting blankets for charity.While we will continue to support Refuge in 2012, we’re excited to...
View ArticleKnit for Refuge with our exclusive pattern
Try out this classic technique with Juliet Bernard’s exclusive ‘Log Cabin’ blanket square pattern, as part of our Refuge ‘Bears & Squares’ campaign.We’re hoping that this will help you get started...
View ArticleGet knitting for our 'Bears & Squares' campaign!
Following the launch of our ‘Bears & Squares’ charity campaign for Refuge last month, we’re delighted that so many of you have already picked up your needles to start knitting cot blankets and...
View ArticleJuliet’s blog – A pop-culture knitting pattern!
Juliet Bernard of The Knitter revels in a pattern she found via Ravelry, the oh-so colourful POP blanket by Emily Wessel.Every now and again a pattern comes along that just captures your imagination...
View ArticleKnit for Refuge, and inspire others too!
We know lots of you are knitting busily for our Refuge 'Bears and Squares' campaign, and we’re really grateful for that! We’d love it if you could also help us to spread the word and hopefully inspire...
View ArticleJuliet’s blog – The horrors of knitting for babies of knitters
Juliet Bernard of The Knitter explains how she went about adapting a pattern for a very special baby blanket.I do love to knit for babies but when it is the baby of a knitter it can be a bit of a...
View ArticleAnd our Refuge competition winner is....
In June The Knitter and Simply Knitting launched a fantastic knitting design competition for our readers as part of our year-long read more
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