| When I'm doing research for a class, trying to expand my knowledge base, or avoiding doing the books, here's some of my favorite haunts that I visit on the internet:
www.knitty.com - great patterns (hip and tasteful to tacky chic), great articles, great sense of humor.
www.knittersreview.com - detailed yarn reviews, more great articles.
www.girlfromauntie.com - another fun site for knitters, plus she's into The Avengers, one of my favorite British TV series from the sixties.
Wool Works - another very useful site for knitting info.
The KnitList - Subscribe to this list for a wealth of info on two sticks.
www.knitting.about.com - great site, very informative, free patterns.
www.socknitters.com - very informative email list.
Knitting Techniques - Cast on, bind off, I-cord and more animated!
NEW! Here's another great site for technique info with videos for continental or English knitters. NEW! Annie's Attic has a great resource for all your crochet questions, with pics and videos to guide you.
NEW! Here's a great site for loom knitters with free patterns and great info. Visit this website for a knit pattern for helmetliners. And here's a link to a sewn neck cooler pattern. This website has links for knit & crochet versions of helmetliners as well as neck coolers.
Weavers Hand - great for weaving links and info for tablet, kumihimo and ply-splitting.
Here's a link to weaving guilds in the northwest - Northwest Weavers
To sign up for the Weavers List, an email list for weavers, click here
Here's another handweaving site.
And be sure to visit the Handweavers Guild of America website.
 And here's a link to the Weavers Guild of Minnesota
at the Textile Center in Minneapolis.
The SpinList is for all us fiber fondlers. Lots of good info.
Here's another great website with streaming video and audio demonstrations called The Joy of Handspinning.
Spinners and Weavers Housecleaning Pages - the name says it all!
The Silkworker has the most gorgeous rovings of handpainted tussah silk for spinning. I have to stop myself from visited her website very often because it's hard to resist buying!
And to give purpose to your craft while using up extra yarns you might have, please consider these sites:
Hugs for Homeless Animals Snuggles Project
Craft Yarn Council of America - Warm Up America Afghans Also please visit Charitable Crafters for some great ideas for giving. Tina S. from Duluth also dropped off some copies of their booklet "A Charitable Crafters Guide to Giving". If your group, guild or church would to use this for your projects, please stop in and pick one up. www.straw.com - Crystal Palace Yarn website with lots of ideas & free patterns
www.interweave.com - home of Handwoven, Spin-Off, and Interweave Knits plus much more
www.knittinguniverse.com - home of Knitter's Magazine Softpress Systems Ltd. - Makers of Freeway, an awesomely easy software for designing websites with a Mac. Click on the link on the upper left. You won't be disappointed! | | | |
