Guide to Knitting, Part 3: Binding Off
So you’ve learned how to cast on as well as how to knit the first row. You’ve practiced each step several times to ensure that you’re ready to move on. Perhaps knitting is even slowly but surely becoming one of your all-time favorite hobbies. If not, it will be soon! (Or at least we hope [...]
Guide to Knitting, Step 2: The First Row
So you’ve learned how to make a slip knot and how to cast on and now you’re ready to really begin knitting. Hopefully some of your knitting anxiety has subsided and you’re feeling confident enough to begin the next step: Knitting that first row. While it may seem strange at first, knitting the first row [...]
Guide to Knitting, Step 1: Casting On
Knitting is a fun and relaxing hobby. Unfortunately, many people are plagued with knitting anxiety, intimidated by the many kinds of stitches, yarns, and loops they’ve heard and read about. Fortunately, knitting really isn’t all that hard to learn once you have a few of the basics down. One of the first things you need [...]
Top 5 Reasons to Dive into a Dumpster Today
While eating out currently sits comfortably in slot number 31 on our list of most popular hobbies, we have a feeling the financial crisis will cause a drop in eating out and a high spike in the sport of dumpster diving. Now don’t go running the other direction–dumpster diving (a growing hobby among the financially savvy in which you, well, dive into a [...]
If You Thought Macrame Was Out of Style…
Ummm…okay so you might be right. Macramé isn’t necessarily the pinnacle of the fashion world. Some might say it went out of style years before your grandma was hanging her potted plants in that ugly macramé hanger (I know my grandma did–and yes, even as a young kid I knew something was terribly wrong).
And yet…
Macrame [...]
