How to Knit Faster: 6 Tips to Knit More Efficiently
For those who love to knit, it's common to have an ever-growing list of new patterns to tackle. Eventually, you might think about ways to hasten your knitting process. If you're eager to learn how to knit faster without compromising on quality, here are a few helpful tips. 1. Choose the right...
Why Knitting is Good for your Brain
Not only is knitting a fun and enriching activity, but it also offers many other benefits! It can help reduce stress, improve cognitive function, and even lower blood pressure. 1️⃣ Sitting still to knit reduces your heart rate and lowers your blood pressure after a few minutes. 2️⃣...
Knitting books and inspiring literature
Like yarn, books are hard for most knitters to resist. I find the tactile and visual qualities of printed books to be comforting and inspiring and have a large library of home decorating and gardening titles, beautiful vintage volumes and, of course, an absurd number of knitting, crochet, craft, and...
Spring Ahead
Spring is officially here, at last! While it was a fairly mild winter in some places, it was relentless in others – in the Northeastern US the daffodils are blooming a full month early, while on the other coast, California had one of its highest snowfall totals in recorded history....
Knitting needles : wooden or metal ?
METAL NEEDLES ⚙️ THE PROS AND CONS The advantage of metal knitting needles is their strength and durability. Also, since the stitches slide nicely on their surface, tight-knitters will often prefer them! The downside of metal needles is that they can be heavier and produce a rattling sound, especially with...
What is yarn pilling?
What is yarn pilling? Pilling is the formation of fuzzy balls on the surface of knitwear, which is caused by how the yarn is made. To create yarn, numerous fibers are spun in a long thread. Wearing and washing a garment can cause loose fibers to push out from the...
How did Louise Robert go from hobby knitter to yarn company owner with 5 local yarn shops?
Biscotte & Cie has grown from a small home hand-dyeing business to a thriving enterprise with 3 hand-dyed yarn lines - Biscotte Yarns, Louise Robert Collection and PatricKnits - which creates an average of 55 knitting patterns and crochet designs per year. In addition to producing exquisite hand-dyed yarns and patterns, Louise...
Types of yarn winding
When you start knitting or crocheting, you discover a new vocabulary around yarn. Here is a visual summary of the different types of yarn windings. HANK: Loop of yarn, fastened into a continuous circle with ties. FOLDED HANK: Hank folded in two with a label around it. TWISTED HANK: Hank twisted into a braid...
Best yarns for summer
We don't wear knitwear in the summer 🤥 🤔 🤭 Well, think again: you must choose yarns made of suitable fibers! Look for these fibers to enjoy your knits in the warm season: 1️⃣ COTTON - Cotton is soft, lightweight, breathable, and absorbs body moisture, allowing heat to escape the...
How to knit the Bobble Stitch
I’ve always had a secret crush on the Bobble Stitch! I say secret because I wasn’t sure if I’d see them come back around again to the extent that they have but everything old seems to be new again! I had this one sweater when I was a child that I...
What should I knit in the New Year?
What are some of the knitwear trends style experts are seeing for late Winter and early Spring of 2023 and what should you plan to cast on next?
We looked to the Biscotte Yarns pattern library for some ideas on fashion-forward knits to add to your wardrobe now.
KNITTING TIP - How do you do a mattress stitch
Is it normal to see flowers when doing the mattress stitch ?? For some strange and unknown reason, I was able to memorize the mattress stitch technique by visualizing flowers. HORIZONTAL MATTRESS SEAM: The two leaves of the flower represent a stitch. When I have to join two rows together...
Mystery KAL 2022
Biscotte Yarns is thrilled to invite you to a MYSTERY KAL! ... First of all, what is a KAL?? Knit Alongs (KALs) are fun, social activities in which a group of knitters all make the same project in the same period of time. ... So what is the MYSTERY part?...
Sweater Construction: different common ways to knit a sweater
There are many ways to knit a sweater. In addition to the many technical aspects of knitting (flat, round, bottom-up, top-down or sleeve to sleeve), there are also different types of construction to form the shoulders and sleeves. You will find here some explanations and diagrams to understand and recognize the...
Knitting tutorial : How to Steek
When knitting stranded colorwork (fairisle), it is often easier to knit in the round, always on the right side of the work. It is also easier to read the pattern if you always working in the same direction, knitting on the right side from right to left. This is why the...
Fluo Flow by Joji Locatelli
Here is the beautiful Fluo Flow shawl, a design by Joji Locatelli published in Vogue Knitting. The pattern shown above was knitted with several varieties of fingering yarns from our hand-dyed collection! To make this pattern, here are the yarns and colors used 2 skeins of Bis-Sock Nature 1 skein...
HOW TO SUBSTITUTE YARN IN A KNITTING PATTERN
HOW TO SUBSTITUTE YARN IN A KNITTING PATTERN To substitute the suggested yarn in a knitting pattern, here's what you need to consider: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORIGINAL YARN FIBERS: Merino wool, alpaca, cotton, hemp… STYLE: Hairy, woolen, silky, number of ply COLOR TYPE : Solid, striped, gradient, speckled? YARN WEIGHT: Lace,...
How to cast-on a shawl using the Garter Tab Cast-on technique
This technique is often used to start the knitting of a shawl. It is a way of casting on the stitches around a small tab of garter stitch to avoid the formation of a "hollow" at the base of the shawl, in order to produce a nice uniform border. This...
Knitting tutorial video - Grafting (or kitchener stitch) method explained
In this knitting tutorial, learn how to sew two rows of stitches together using the grafting technique, also known as "kitchener stitch". The grafting technique is often used to close the toe of a sock, for example. You will also see it on the shoulders of a sweater or in...
Learn to make a hat with a knitting loom (VIDEO in french with ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Les premiers flocons commencent à toucher le sol, donc il est bientôt le temps de sortir nos ensembles d'hivers. ❄ En même temps pourquoi ne pas tout simplement apprendre à les faire nous-même. Surtout qu'avec le tricotin rotatif, la tuque se fait presque tout seule. Vous allez voir, le tricotin...