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Angel Hair Web Resources
Here are some of our favorite internet resources. We hope that you will find them as valuable as we do.
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TOOLS, FORMULAS and LINKS:
About.com - the place to go for knitting chats, free patterns and...well, ya just gotta see it!
Animated Knitting Techniques - great source for showing different knitting techniques. Very cool!
Annie's Attic Crochet Video - Learn to crochet or brush up on information all available via text, graphic or quicktime movies.
Duplicate Stitch Tutorial - This is a very good tutorial (Kristin Nicholas, no less) on how to do duplicate stitch.
Knit Pro - knitPro is a web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Just upload jpeg, gif or png images of whatever you wish -- portraits, landscapes, logos... and it will generate the image pattern on a grid sizable for any fiber project. While you're at it, try logoknitting and visit the rest of the website to learn about knitting activism...
Knitting Glossary - Use this link if you've got a foreign pattern and need to
translate into English terms!KnittingHelp.com - Learn to knit with our free online videos! Browse the videos in the Basic and Advanced Technique sections. If you have any questions, or just want to hang around with a fabulous bunch of knitters, visit our friendly forum!
The Knitter's Review - no-nonsense reviews of yarn, shops, needles, books, plus a great newsletter to subscribe to!
let me explaiKnit - Sara's blog for explaining knitting things. We think that you'll like this one.
Mason Dixon Knitting - Kay lives in Manhattan, Ann lives in Nashville. This fun and funny blog is full of the love of knittig from Kay and Ann.
rebecca's pocket - Lots of knitting resourses including those for the blind knitter
Rowan Yarn Data - Yardage, gauge, and fiber content for current and discontinued Rowan Yarns This list is intended as an aid to knitters who want to find substitutes for discontinued Rowan yarns.
Sock Calculator - calculates a pattern for any gauge, any foot
Sock Knitters Tips, Heels by the Number - help with turning the heel.Sweater Calculator - The Knitting Fool offers you FREE interactive sweater pattern generators. You provide a few items of information (e.g., size and knitting gauge information) to generate the patterns.
V&A Knitting Online! - London's fabulous Victoria & Albert Museum, long known for its textile collections, has recently launched a knitting page! There's lots to see and read about here, both old and relatively new - you can even send your own submissions!
Wool Works - the original (we're talking 1994 here!) resource for knitting on the WebYarndex, The Yarn Directory - The ultimate resource designed for both the knitting public and the yarn industry. Explore our extensive database jam-packed with the details you need to make the right yarn selection.
PATTERN CORRECTIONS:Errata & Corrections for Patterns links to online errata and corrections.
The Needle Arts Book Shop Though book writers work very hard to offer all us perfect patterns, there can be occasional corrections. Click the title for pattern book errata.
The Knitting Fiend: Annex Do you think the pattern you bought may contain an error, mistake, boo-boo or some other problem? Mistakes happen, and often designers, publishers and magazines publish errata correcting the mistakes. This page shows links to the errata I’ve found.
The Fiber Gypsy Corrections to published patterns. Includes errata issued by publishers as well as those identified by knitters. Books are listed alphabetically by title (not by specific pattern).
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