So you wanna knit a coat. If you’ve ever knitted a sweater, you can knit a coat. Coats, after all, are essentially sweaters with certain attributes that…

Magical knitting. How do you define it? For me, it’s knitting for my relatives and seeing them enjoy the handknits I spend so much time making, just…

It’s National Craft Month! And in honor of all things crafty, Interweave is hosting a blog hop. I’m thrilled to be guest blogging for the knit group,…

Among my family and friends, I’m well known for my, shall we say, frugal nature. I reuse plastic baggies, I’ve been wearing the same shoes to the…

I have problems finishing my knitting. That is, I complete a knitted project, but it never looks as good as it does in the project photo. In…

Authors Alicia Plummer and Michelle Schaschwary include two fantastic legwarmer projects in their book Plum Dandi Knits. Fridley, shown here, are knit in a beautiful shade of…

The Bezold Hat and Cowl set utilizes differing stripe sequences and the k1-below technique to create variations in color dominance—or is that just the Bezold Effect at…

When Amy Tyler’s Wild Water Scarf arrived at the Interweave office, I was excited to see that she had used a sewn bind-off. Amy made her beautiful…

Every March, the Interweave office gets flooded with Aran sweaters, cable needles, shamrocks, and the mysterious smell of corned beef (we haven’t found the source yet). Even…

A young widow from a prominent Savannah family, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low pioneered an organization to instill leadership and self-reliance in girls through community service, outdoor activities,…

I’ve been knitting for well over a decade, but until now, I never tackled a garment with sleeves. Call it an irrational phobia; so far I’ve always…

These are the basic instructions for how to cast on knitting stitches. For more knitting help, see the Interweave Knitting Glossary. CAST ON To get started, you…

Behind the pages of every Interweave magazine is a team of knitting geeks hoping you’ll love every project as much as we do! After each release, we…

When was the last time you did something for yourself? No, picking up a pint of ice cream on the way home from work doesn’t count. I…

Have you tried our subscription service, Interweave Yarn & Fiber Workshops, yet? We’ve worked with some of the best instructors to bring you great online courses where…

Knitting for me is more than a hobby or livelihood. It is a means of binding my life together with the lives of all the knitters, men…

Things move so quickly at the Interweave office that we rarely have time to stop and appreciate the array of magazine issues we’ve published over the span…

Some knitters place stitch markers (affiliate link) between the pattern repeats when they knit lace because they find that dividing the stitches into smaller, more manageable groups…

Ever notice how a certain trend in knitting just explodes, and within a month it seems like everyone is doing it? So it is with short-row knitting.…

What is Mercury retrograde? Simply speaking, it’s when Mercury looks as though it’s orbiting in the “wrong” direction when viewed from Earth. It happens three or four…

Two weeks ago, I found myself on the hunt for a new knitting project. I have a long-term crochet project in the works, but I was in…

Intarsia or “picture knitting” is a color-work technique used to create basic geometric shapes or complicated pictures in a knitted piece. Intarsia patterns can be worked in…

Silk is an ancient fiber that has been used for more than 8,000 years. Produced by insects spinning cocoons for metamorphosis, the filaments are long and shimmering,…