I followed through with my plan of experimenting knitting with inexpensive non superwash wool. I waited for black Friday to get a deal, but having visited Hobbii's website more often, I realise I needn't have bothered. This wool is almost always on some sort of sale, especially when you are buying pullover quantities. As of … Continue reading Knitting with cheap wool: evaluation of Friends Wool Medium from Hobbii
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Knitting Advice Nr. 5 : Freeze your knits (moths be gone)
Clothes moths go by the fancy scientific names of tineola bisselliella and tinea pellionella (so two different species of moths, bisselliella being the most common). These 2 species of moths thrive on keratin. What is keratin ? Keratin is "the key structural material making up scales, hair, nails, feathers, horns, claws, hooves, and the outer … Continue reading Knitting Advice Nr. 5 : Freeze your knits (moths be gone)
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