As the tryptophan plus medicine induced haze is wearing off and I’m slowly (slowly) coming to grips with the amount of yarn I bought over…
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There aren’t many days that start with Y. Well, really only “yesterday” and that’s not exactly a fixed point in time, is it, being all…
4 CommentsKnitting stranded colorwork patterns can result in a fabric that is eye-catchingly gorgeous. Managing all the yarns, however, can be an incredible nightmare. While the front looks all nice and pretty, the inside can be such a mess.
The key to keeping the wrong side relatively neat and orderly is to wrap up the long strands, or floats, along the back side. That way they’ll be less likely to snag, and you’ll make sure you’re not pulling the yarn too tight when you begin to knit with it again. Pulling the floats too tight can make the fabric pucker and mess with gauge. {read more}
1 CommentAbout this time last year, I published my Parallel Lines pattern. Quite a few people added it to their Ravelry queues—not too many people have actually knit it. Not to worry, I know all about adding things to one’s queue and then sort of… forgetting about them? I have almost 500 things in my queue (the new Twist Collective certainly did me no favors); I may get around to knitting half of them in my lifetime.
Anyway, around the time that I published the pattern, I also made mention of doing a tutorial on how to do the left twisting stitches. So here we are, a year later (sorry about that), with a tutorial on how to work a left-leaning twisted stitch pattern. {read more}
2 CommentsAs I discussed yesterday, I experimented with the bind-off for my toe-up socks with a tubular bind-off. I’d previously read about the technique but I hadn’t actually tried it.
That was just silly. This cast-off is so easy. The secret to the tubular bind-off is that in the end, it’s really just grafting. That’s right, if you can Kitchener stitch your top-down sock toes, you can work a tubular bind-off.
2 Comments(I may have been channeling a bit of Scarlet O’Hara when I came up with that subject line.) A while back I came across a…
4 CommentsI had hoped to come to you today with photos and discussion of a finished blanket (today being my “half-birthday”, my blanket being a birthday…
15 CommentsOh friends. Today, I had a breakthrough. Though technically it could have partly happened yesterday. I was sitting at knitting group last night and noticed…
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