After literally years of searching, I think I’ve finally found my permanent solution to storing all my knitting notions: windowed rectangular slip tins from the Container Store (item numbers 10054318 and 10054319). I think I paid $12 for the larger and $8 for the smaller, or thereabouts, which I know is a bit pricey. BUT, I’ve easily spent three times that over the years on other boxes that just didn’t cut it. Plus, I don’t think I’ll ever buy any other boxes, so it’s a one-time cost. (I was originally inspired to look for these when the drug store had Danish butter cookies, in those nice round tins, on sale at 2-for-1. But round isn’t very space-efficient.)
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Why Does a Knitting Blog Have Computer Tips?
Because I never work from written-out instructions: I use knitting charts.
I created my own knitting font, so the first thing I do is type up a project’s instructions as a chart (or charts, if necessary). Since I do my charts in my word processor, I always save early, save often as I’m typing them.
My Favorite Stitch Holders
I hate sewing seams to assemble sweaters. If I wanted to sew, I’d crawl around on the floor cutting out fabric, then sit at the sewing machine.
Instead, I like to make sweaters in the round, whether bottom up or top down. When I make bottom-up seamless sweaters, I’m going to have to put stitches on holders at both underarms on the body and on each sleeve. If I don’t have enough needles of the correct size to leave all three pieces on needles until I can join them for the yoke, I put each sleeve and the body on holders while I work everything up to the underarm joining point.