When we finish sweaters and cardigans, we often need to pick up and knit stitches along a neckline, an armhole or a vertical edge to make a neckband, an armhole band or a button band. The patterns usually instruct us to pick up stitches evenly. If we fail to do so, some segments of the bands …
Whether you know them as two-stitch cables, 1×1 cables, crossed stitches or twisted cables, these little design elements are perfect for forming all kinds of geometric patterns, like the ones used in the gorgeous Japanese stitch patterns. We can make these twisted cables just as we make other types of cables – with the help of a …
Whether you know them as two-stitch cables, 1×1 cables, crossed stitches or twisted cables, these little design elements are perfect for forming all kinds of geometric patterns, like the ones used in the gorgeous Japanese stitch patterns. Depending on the pattern, the mini-cables with stitches crossed to the left are called “cross two left” (C2L), …
Simple Way to Cross Two Stitches With and Without a Cable Needle Read More »
If you find the garter tab cast on method confusing, or if you want to avoid a hump that sometimes forms on the edge started with a garter tab, feel free to use an alternative way to get those nine stitches on your needles. This method is easier, faster and it doesn’t create any humps and bumps. …
When we want to add a subtle decoration to our projects, Purled I-Cord Cast On is a great way to do it. The edge formed by this method looks nice next to any stitch pattern, and it works remarkably well with garter stitch. This edge looks the same on both sides of the fabric and …
This method is a simplified variation of the shadow wrap short rows. The swatch at the left side of the photo below is shaped using the shadow wraps short rows, and the swatch on the right – using the lifted short rows method. We get the same almost invisible look of the short-row shaping but without the need to fiddle with picking up the top …
There are a few ways to make a cast on edge that keeps the stockinette fabric from curling without drastically changing the look of this widely used stitch pattern. All these ways have one major disadvantage – the very bottom of the edge is bumpy and uneven. It happens because we pull stitches from the edge to …
Whether we use a seamless cast on for our toe-up socks, or close the stitches of the toe part of our top-down socks with the Kitchener stitch grafting method, we often end up with pointy sides known as “ears”, “dog ears” or “donkey ears”. They do look a bit like ears, and even though they do …
Seamless Cast On and Kitchener Stitch Without “Ears” Read More »
It’s not that stitch markers are bad. No. They are very helpful tools, our big friends. But because we attach one marker each time we turn the work using the Japanese short rows method, the process of shaping gets really slow and all those small objects dangling on the wrong side of the work quickly …
Making a twisted knit stitch is easy – we simply knit a stitch through the back loop and get a lovely “crossed V” without much effort. Making a twisted purl stitch is an entirely different story. We need to twist our wrist to perform, arguably, the clumsiest knitting move known as purling through the back …
The Easiest Twisted Knits and Twisted Purls Worked in the Round Read More »