Jackpot Of Great Yarn Tips

Today’s feature is from Lion Brand Yarn with a collection entitled 50 Great Yarn Tips, however the count surely must be in the hundreds since there are currently 26 pages loaded with tips!

Each tip was submitted by Lion Brand customers and you’ll find plenty of pointers for managing yarn, knitting and crochet projects. Here’s a sampling of what’s available:

• Save the clear plastic zipper bags you get from buying bedding and other items, they make perfect yarn and project storage bags. I use these myself for toting around projects since everything’s zipped up neatly and I can just toss the project bag in my tote bag with everything else.
• Double pointed needles often don’t have a size marked on them, you can use a permanent marker to note the size (with dots–2 dots means size 2, etc.).
• Keep an index card in your wallet of all the needle sizes you own so you’ll know whether or not you need to buy new needles for a project.
• When using both ends of a skein of yarn, clip both ends of a ziploc baggy and put the skein in there, feeding each yarn end through a bag hole on each side. Helps keep the yarn untangled.

Check out the site for lots more goodies, both knitting and crochet tips are covered. At this time there are 26 pages of tips to browse through (look to the bottom right corner of each page, you’ll see “Next Yarn Tips” to click over to the next page), I haven’t come close to reading them all yet!

Here are a bunch of yarn stash busters to check out too.

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