Monica Knits

Their small size, makes the plastic clips found on bread and fruit bags ideal tools for managing yarn tails. They are big enough to hold the yarn tail, yet small enough so as not to get in the way of knitting.
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Save those plastic bread clips for your knitting kit and remember that re-use is the highest form of recycling.

When Shilda came to class one day, she said, "Now I understand what you meant about being careful not to knit the wrong way round." She also came with a tip to share with other new sock knitters. Read more....
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Shilda didn't ever want to run out of yarn again, while completing one of the many headbands she has been knitting for friends and family. The previous bobbin had 1 - 2 yds of yarn too few. Her solution -- a brother for her bobbin! Tandem bobbins, a bobbin train :)
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The old saw aptly describes this product: "A luxury once sampled becomes a necessity." I've used my Hands-free Magnifier many times over the years for fine cross stitch and grafting tasks and never thought to purchase a magnifying lamp. Recently, however, we inherited one and it proved to be the perfect tool for some grafting of fine stitches at night. Normally I would have waited for daylight for this task, but the Globe Magnifier Desk Lamp made it possible to both pick up the stitches and graft them in the evening, using only the built in 12 W fluorescent bulb. Read more... ... photo coming ....