Do you have any suggestions for our homepage Themes of the Day for October 2024? If so, please add them here. Thank you 
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Autumn ā¦autumn colours, leaves, everything autumn
Halloween
Goth (as itās Whitby Goth again rnd of the month)
Vampires
Winter warmersā¦knitted hats, scarves etc
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Some suggested themes
Foxes
Squirrels
Owls
Forest
Night Sky
Camp-fires
Full Moon
Stars
Toadstools
Rosy Red Apples
Velvet
Cosy Knits
Needle felting
Scents of autumn for the home (candles etc)
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Iām loving the suggestions so far. Can I add crochet to the list please. Far too much knitting going on ( she says after finally giving up trying to knit after spending all year getting her knickers in a twist trying 
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crochet blankets
cosy crochet
crochet hats
crochet scarves
Just ācrochetā something!
Louise x
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Hiya. Hereās a few ideas.
Bonfires
Harvest
Acorns
Paper art
Decoupage
Halloween
Witches
Spooky
Hedgehogs
Squirrels
Foxes
Autumn Leaves
Owls
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Insects
spiders
copper
nuts
hedgehogs
Christmas shopping (December is too late!)
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Autumn storms
Misty mornings
Berries
First frost
Hibernation
Starry skies
Northern lights
Sheep
Tale telling
Traditional crafts
By the fire
Candlelight
Windswept (and interesting!)
Conkers
Winter visitors (migrating birds etc.)
Foraged finds
(You can tell this is my favourite time of year!)
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any knitwearā¦blankets for the winter and those without the winter fuel allowanceā¦
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and is it too early for Secret Santas?..perhaps towards the end of the month but still in time to get items posted to arrive for office parties and gifts.
Christmas jumpers ready for Christmas jumper dayā¦or items of clothing in Christmas coloursā¦it might seem early but people will want to post items abroad and the posting dates abroad are always quite early.
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Halloweāen - ghosts, witches, pumpkins
Orange (colour not fruit!)
Autumn leaves
Snug / Hygge / Cosy
Acorns
Squirrels / Hedgehogs
Mist / Fog
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I do love both but Iām sorry you didnāt get on with knitting 
Do you mind if I ask how you tried to learn? As a self taught everything person Iām always fascinated to know how others learn.
I wonder if youād find this helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAWJwtlHVo
Santa, Rudolph, moths, snails, frogs, owls, hips & haws, berries, ivy, funghi
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We had lots of āautumnā based ones in September, and November is probably the better month to fill with Christmassy ones so everyone is not fed up with it before we even reach Advent. So maybe it would be good to have lots of variety in October?
4th Oct World Animal Day
6th Oct Grandparents Day
7th Oct World Cotton Day
Patchwork
Jumpers for grown ups
Cosy baby wear
Anniversaries
Hexagons
Remember summer?
Peaches and cream
Stripes
Bargain gifts under a fiver (not cards)
Top end of market - items over Ā£100
Made in Essex - Google tells me the UK has 92 counties so could do one a week for ā¦ nearly 2 years!
Shops that havent yet made a sale --tag one item only
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Winter wedding
Cats
Get well soon ( from all the autumn/winter bugs)
Wood
Notebooks (for planning ahead)
Christmas cards
Vintage vibe
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Oh Debbie, Iāve tried just about every way possible! Iāve read about how to and followed pictures, watched and tried to follow along with you tube tutorials, sat with a knitter in person and had them explain and show me and I just canāt seem to get my brain round how to do it.
I taught myself to crochet and picked it up really quickly.
I think being left handed is maybe part of the problem but even being shown by a left handed knitter and watching tutorials by a left handed knitter leaves my poor brain confuddled.
I learnt to crochet watching regular right handed tutorials and I just did it left handed. My brain worked it out without a problem that being left handed means youāre pretty much doing it backwards.
I also taught myself hand embroidery which again for a lot of stitches means being left handed youāre doing the stitch backwards.
When I was little, maybe 8 or 10 my Mum taught me how to knit so at some point Iāve been able to do it. Mum was left handed too but knitted right handed.
Every month or so I pick up my pretty pink needles, grab yarn and try and no luck. I can cast on brilliantly but once I start trying to knit an actual row it all goes pear shaped! 
Iāll check out the link youāve shared and see if my brain gets with it.
Louise x
Louise @thestitchyroom . I can empathise with you. I crochet, and like you I taught myself when I was young and picked it up easily. But as for knitting , I found that really hard even though my Mum knitted a lot so I was very familiar with it . I can just about do it , only very simple things and very slowly, and if something goes wrong I am at a loss as to how to go back and fix it. So I dont ever do it.
I put it down to the fact that in crochet you only have to think about one stitch at a time. In knitting there is a whole needle full of them to keep an eye on, and if one goes awry the whole thing goes wrong, and itās impossible to get to that naughty stitch without losing control of all the others. Thatās my theory!!
Vegetables
Fruits
Cornucopia
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Collagraph
Calendars (advent & 2025)
Craft kits to gift
Autumnal landscapes
Iād like to add āGet well soonā too,
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Oh no! I hope that you do find a way that works for you - using the continental method might be easier for you than the English method - again YouTube has lots of videos of that too. Sometimes as well using different types of needles can help - some people prefer straight needles and some wonāt use anything other than circulars, even when knitting flat. I started as the former myself and then switched to circulars a bit later - itās all about what your hands get used to, isnāt it?! Maybe a bit on tunisian crochet could be a bridge for you too!
x
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Itās funny, Iāve tried and tried to get the hang of continental for two-stranded knitting, but my muscle memory is way too strong and I can only do English style. Supposedly continentalās easier if you already crochet because youāre already used to holding the yarn in the continental hand, but I just canāt do it!
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Yes, that was my thought too. I tried it years ago because Iām a āflicker / throwerā and it looked like I could easily adapt and get even quicker, but I couldnāt get my tension right - way too loose doing continental style. I have a Portugese friend who also introduced me to Portugese knitting where you pin the yarn end to your shoulder - amazing what variety of methods we all use 
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