Are pills ruining your finished projects? Do you blink, and bobbles appear before your eyes? Sometimes the most beautiful yarns can knit up to make a fabric that pills really badly. It's due to the nature of the yarn construction: its fibre content, spin and ply. So what should you do about knitting with yarns that pill? In this episode of Your Knitting Problems Solved, I explore why certain yarns pill and offer 5 tips for how to deal with pilling (and whether you should just throw it all straight in the bin...)

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Jump to:
00:00 Intro
00:00 Why yarns pill
07:06 Slow fashion and making things that last
10:41 Plan of action
10:48 Tip 1: knit the yarn at a tighter tension
12:09 Tip 2: knit objects which avoid abraision
14:06 Tip 3: reserve it for ocasional use
15:48 Tip 4: use for informal clothing
17:52 Tip 5: just say no

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