By: Mindful | Date: 24-Jun-2022
Gifts for Mindful Knitters Are you looking for a gift for your favorite knitter? Gifts for your special knitter have to be meaningful and functional. Knitting is itself a gift to your physical and mental health. The craft of creating something with your hands is a way of meditation and being in the moment.
By: Mindful | Date: 18-Jun-2022
While knitting, you might face a situation where you need to join yarn. Maybe it? a new color or even the same as you have run out of yarn. You might be wondering how to do so? There are many ways to join yarn while knitting. When working with circular knitting needles, you can join the yarn at any point in the project.
By: Mindful | Date: 14-Jun-2022
Among all the techniques of casting on your stitches, the long-tail cast-on is known to be one of the most reliable and easy ones. It creates stretchy edges that are perfect for hats, socks or sleeves. And the long-tail method is always a good option, if you have to cast on extra stitches in the middle of your project, for example when knitting mittens or yoke sweaters
By: Mindful | Date: 08-Jun-2022
Knitting the first sweater is one of the big milestones every knitter wants to achieve. The gift of a handmade sweater is a pride for every maker. This can be a gift for you or your loved one. Every time the sweater is worn you will feel unexplainable love and satisfaction.
By: Mindful | Date: 30-May-2022
If there was a Nobel Prize in knitting then it would surely go to the one who invented the lifeline! It is not a stitch, a technique, pattern, or even a tool, this is a trick to save your knitting projects from disaster and is well-deserving the name.
By: Mindful | Date: 23-May-2022
Knitters love their circular needles as they are proven blessings. The versatile needles allow a variety of knitting both flat and round from the smallest to the biggest projects. While many knitters have been inseparable from their circular needles many are still using them only for round projects. Flat knitting is used for creating sweaters, scarves and many patterns.
By: Mindful | Date: 18-May-2022
Blocking is one of the essential steps of knitting or crocheting any project. You can take any knitting or crochet project and bring out its best appearance with the right blocking tools. Often overlooked but given the many benefits of blocking projects, it is also important to get the process right. If you have been skipping out on blocking or not doing it right, here? your chance to make things perfect with blocking tools from the Mindful Collection.
By: Mindful | Date: 16-May-2022
Small circumference knitting is used for projects that are knit in the round with rounds of some 16 inches or sometimes, even less. Some of the most common, small circumference knitting projects are socks, mittens and gloves, infant-sized hats and, of course, sweater sleeves that are worked in the round, and even some bags or pouches.
