Welcome to Yarnia

There are lots of reasons I started this blog, and I'd love to start with Mr Tumnus' scarf, but mostly it's to do with practicality.

I am a knitter! We don't have support groups but knitting circles and we're all enablers, that is a terrible problem. We go gushy over yarn and often can brandish a set of dpns like weapons. I have seen knitting circles that advertised themselves "Want to quit [smoking] learn to knit" and it's a calming soothing past time that eventually reaps rewards in the details of sweaters and socks that you don't really want.

But knitting is an adventure, every time you think you have it mastered you discover something new and terrifying and it can be overwhelming.

I have an ABJD problem, (they're too expensive and I love them, that's the problem) and so being unwilling to pay as much in shipping as for clothes I learned to make them myself and that included knitting. I was a as and when bad knitter, I knitted badly as and when, but I learned and found that strangely analytical mind and math talent translated wonderfully when someone explained knitting to me logically.

So this blog is to create a one stop shop for resources, links, free patterns, show off for sale patterns (by myself and other knitters) to whine about the joys of techniques as they appear, and how to cheat. How to convert patterns to scale, how to "read" an outfit to see how it goes together and all in scale for your own dolls.

Knitting is not cost effective, you cannot sell an item for what it's worth in manpower and materials, a sweater that took ten hours will not sell for minimum wage plus yarn costs, so it is rare to see them for sale. Which is fine, it means you make your own. Every hand knit piece is one of a kind. And one of the massive advantages of doll knitting, you mostly only need to buy one ball of yarn.