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Keep a box of dental floss in your notions / on-the-go project bag

Not only can it be really useful as, well, dental floss. It can also help you thread a needle, and serve as a portable yarn cutter that is allowed wherever you go, even on airplanes.

In addition, it can serve you well whenever a length of waste yarn is needed, like as a running stitchmarker, or as a lifeline when knitting.

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quantity over quality is the key when starting a new craft/hobby/whatever

It took me thousands of stitches to figure out the best way to knit, to purl, to tension my yarn. I tried English and continental. Circular and straight needles.

All the advice and videos and tips in the world won’t replace actually doing the thing. Over and over. And ripping it all up and starting over.

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Never lose your place again!

If you have an iDevice, open your pattern in Files or Photos and use the highlighter tool to check off rows or mark/circle the one you're currently working on. Once you're all done, you can erase your notes and revert to the pristine original with just a few taps.

(Something similar has got to exist on Android, but I don't have a device to check it.)

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So you've managed to stain your unworked skein of yarn? And the washing machine would only tangle it beyond recognition?

Don't worry - Fetch a pantyhose, put the skein into it, tie it off and run it through the washing machine. No mess!

(Obviously, don't do this to wool or other non machine-washables. That will still lead to Big Mess.)

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Mend your jeans with crochet!

My jeans shred. No, not in nice decorative places like above the knee, where you could leave it be, or back it with some colorful fabric, an intricate doily, etc. They shred in heavy duty places - between the thighs.

I'm not competent at sewing, and it's no fun. The speedweve intrigued me, and was fun, but only for the first one or two mends. And of course it's utterly useless for big holes.

But I've been having fun with crochet for over a decade now, and maybe you have so too, so why not try crochet to save a pair of trousers?

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How do you make a pattern bigger?

If you like big amigurumi plushies, but are not a fan of chunky yarn, this tutorial can help you scale your pattern up instead of scaling up your yarn and hook.

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Intro to sock knitting?

I'm looking for a video that covers the basics of sock knitting: toe-up vs. cuff-down, different heel and toe techniques, different cast ons and bind offs, what they have in common, what makes them different.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

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scrappy socks

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How I join skeins

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No sir, you can’t take that! That’s my emotional support project!

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You love a good fringe, but hate to attach all those little individual pieces of yarn? What about having a go at this twisted fringe crocheted directly onto your project - no fiddly yarn snippets to deal with.

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花結び　ヽ(^。^)ノ ｽﾃｷｰ Tying a floral knot

（ Reddit:r/oddlysatisfying u/Boojibs ）

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Sometimes when I’m playing yarn chicken, I’ll start to knit faster as though the speed is going to have any impact whatsoever on how much yarn is used up.

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Dropped a stitch, but can't / can't be bothered to frog back and redo a whole section?

You could of course just secure the open loop with a tiny bit of yarn and sew it onto the fabric to stop it from unraveling.

A way more elegant solution would be to ladder down one of the columns adjacent to the *oopsie*, do a decrease to secure the dropped stitch, and ladder back up. All fixed!

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U say to urself "i dont need notches, ill know how to orient the pieces when sewing bc i made the pattern" this is the devil speaking. Put notches in ur pattern and cut them into ur fabric. Youll be glad for it

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This is not a yarning hack per se, but it has to do with stringy stuff, and tumblr loves their shoelaces, so...

Try this method of "double" tying! It does not untie by itself, but is still not bulky, can be released as easily as a regular tie, and only takes slightly longer to do.

It's been a real game changer for me - I can't see myself going back to my old ways of tying.

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