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by: our staff
It is a part of fine arts and craft where you can create designs on fabric using needle and
thread…though it needs a great deal of practice and experience. You use strands of colorful
thread and also a great deal of imagination to create patterns in your fabric that makes others
stare wonderstruck at your craftsmanship and so too on your carry of fashion.
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I Am a Stubborn Old Knitter
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by: Holly Burnham
I'm a Stubborn Old Knitter
I am so set in my ways……when did I reach the age where 'can't teach old dog new tricks' fits
me to a 'T'?
Knitting is my passion and I devote far more time to it than I should. That said, wouldn't you
think I would be anxious to learn every technique out there? Well….you'd think…..and you'd be
wrong.
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In a trend that began in
Canada, bulked
continuous filament
(BCF) yarns have
replaced yarns
traditionally used in
carpeting. Thanks to
advances in
technology, machines
have increased from
speeds of 200 cycles
per minute in the
1950s to 2000 cycles
per minute today.
The finely decorated
cotton socks found in
Egypt at the end of the
first millennium AD is
one of the earliest
known examples of
knitting.
The Canadian and United States standard for naming yarn are opposite of one another. In
Canada, they put the number of plies on top, whereas in the United States they put the number
of plies on bottom. For example, in Canada "3/8 Cotton" consists of 3 plies of #8 Cotton,
whereas this would be described as 8/3 Cotton in the States. Both correspond to the exact
same weight of yarn.
