When we shape a project worked in 1×1 ribbing, we want the decreases to look the same on both sides of the fabric. It is especially important for reversible hats, cowls, cardigans and other projects that don’t hide their wrong side. I encountered this issue as I was designing a warm highly textured hat made with two …
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It is not difficult to pick up stitches from an edge formed by the provisional cast on, but when we do it for the first time, the task could seem intimidating. If the live stitches sit on a piece of scrap yarn, they are often uneven and some of them could even be concealed, making the …
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In most cases, the regular way to bind off stitches works just fine. But if you want to add a special touch to the open edges of your project, you need to use a special way of closing stitches. I-cord bind off is one of those ways. It turns plain edges of blankets, cowls, top-down …
Assia Brill came up with an amazing way to make knitted cables more prominent and textured. But this approach is not limited only to the regular crossed cables formed by knit stitches. We can also apply the High-Relief Cable method to travelling cables that are built by knit and purl stitches. We do it by using “ghost” stitches, but …
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There are many ways to make a provisional cast on, but the result is always the same – the cast on edge is not really an “edge”, but a set of live stitches that we can pick up later on. Many of the ways involve a crochet hook, but not all knitters have one or …
Whether we use double-pointed needles, two circular needles or one circular needle and the magic loop method, we often notice that the strands between every two groups of stitches in our seamless project are longer than the strands between stitches within the fabric. These longer strands form a vertical element that resembles a ladder. That’s why this …
Let’s take a look at a cast on method that is based on i-cord but forms an edge that looks more like a braid than a cord. This happens because we reduce the width of the i-cord to two stitches, and this little tweak completely changes the outcome. Instead of an i-cord, we see a set of braids that …
When a project requires steep increases, the pattern will instruct us to cast on a certain number of stitches at the beginning of a row. At first, it might seem confusing, because we usually cast on stitches when there are no stitches on the needles, not when we are already halfway through the project. Despite …
If you notice that every other row of your project is longer than its neighbours, that means your knits and purls have different tension. It is a common issue called “rowing out”. It affects many stitch patterns, but is most visible on a fabric made in stockinette stitch. There are a number of ways to fix rowing out – from using mismatched …
This is a quick and easy tutorial about a quick and easy way to join a new ball of yarn to your project without making a knot. We’ve already discussed several ways to join yarn, but the method explained in this tutorial makes a much neater join without any effort at all. No fiddling with the yarn tails and …
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