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 »
It takes quite some time to knit a hat, a sweater, a pair of socks and pretty much any other project. So it hurts to throw our knits away only because it’s got a hole, especially when a hole sneaks into our favourite garment or accessory. Whether the hole appeared because the fabric got snagged, …
Whenever we want to give a special treatment to a cast-on edge of our project, the i-cord cast on is almost always a good method to use. It is a simple way to form a neat cast on edge that doesn’t stretch out and keeps the stockinette fabric from curling. We’ve already discussed how to …
To make sure an i-cord forms a flawless circle when we add it to a seamless project, we should join the ends of this i-cord with an invisible seam. The best way to do it is to graft the open stitches to the very first row of the same i-cord. It is a simple process that works …
Quite often, we want the side edges of a stockinette stitch fabric to stay flat instead of rolling in as they usually do. But sometimes, the rolled edge can add an interesting touch to a project. The trick here is to control the curling so that the edge does not roll all the way to the centre …
Some knitting mistakes are barely noticeable and we can safely leave them hidden in the project. Missed and mis-crossed cables do not belong to that category. These mistakes are far from being invisible. They are staring right at us no matter whether the cable is in the very centre of the project or at its …
Whether we use the classic way to pick up stitches from an edge of a project, or a neater alternative to the classic method, we inevitably form a ridge on the wrong side of the fabric. This imperfection is especially annoying when we add bands to cardigans, blankets, shawls and other reversible projects. We learned to accept this issue as …