Dear Subscribers,

Today I will show you some other yarn craft projects that are simple to make with leftover amounts of TuTu™.

As soon as spring arrived everyone put on their flip flops. This inspired me to wrap a pair of rubber sandals in TuTu. The foot fetish is alive and well as the warm weather arrives and women all over the country are opting for pedicures. Dress up your flip flops to match your toenail polish using our brilliant TuTu palette. It is so easy, you just wrap the TuTu around and around the upper part and fasten off with a knot when they are completely covered.

To dress up some fabric covered throw pillows, I took some leftovers and glued TuTu to the fabric. I used a matching green TuTu for the green pillow and I squeezed a line of fabric glue along the seam to fasten the TuTu in place. For the Turquoise pillow, I squeezed the glue in an abstract pattern and fastened random lengths of different shades of TuTu.

While shopping for household items, I spotted some foam mesh placemats and coasters. It occurred to me that they would make a colorful base for crocheting an edge of contrasting TuTu around the perimeter. A woven straw glass holder inspired me to weave some lengths of Tu Tu in and out of the openings. A short length of TuTu can be tied around a napkin for a colorful finishing touch to your table setting.

I have many more ideas to decorate with TuTu, but time and space will not allow me to show them all. I have made great hair ornaments by wrapping headbands and fastening lengths of TuTu to elastic hair bands. I could go on and on. There are too, too many ideas for non-knitting projects with TuTu.

Handbags are so popular and many of them are terribly expensive. Today we are posting two of our favorites bags from our summer collection. You can print them out for free and go to your local Berroco yarn stores to purchase the yarn.

We are in the process of rebuilding our website with our Fall/Winter '05-06 collection of new yarns and patterns. In the next several issues of KnitBits we will be showing all that’s new for the coming season.
 


Randy from Dallas wrote, “I have been knitting for many years and today I found out that I am twisting my stitches. I never knew that I was doing it wrong. My knitting looks very good and very even and the little v’s in the stockinette fabric line up neatly. Do I have to learn to knit another way?”

Randy, it is possible that you are twisting your stitches on your knit row and then you might be untwisting them on the purl side. This method will yield the same look. I have known several knitters who do this. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it!

All the best,


Margery Winter
Creative Director