When changing colors (or yarns), if you purl on the RS of the work on that first row, you’ll end up with the new color showing up as purl “bumps” or “blips” in the old color. So what are you supposed to do if it’s ribbing? If you want a clean color change in ribbing…
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Ribbing Solutions for Knitting: Simple Stretchy Cast-On and Tess’ Simple Stretchy Bind-Off
One of the biggest problems with knitted ribbing is the relative lack of stretch in the cast-on or bound-off edges. Ribbing is almost always at the edges of a garment, and we usually want it to stretch as much as possible. If the cast-on or bound-off edge is too tight, it can break when the…
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Slipping Stitches In Knitting
Many knitters get confused over the directive to “slip” a stitch. To slip a stitch means simply to move it from one needle to the other. That’s all that “slip”, by itself, means. Once I had a student arguing with me that “it can’t be that easy!” but believe me, it is. Of course, it…
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Hand Health
Healthy, pain-free hands are perhaps THE most important tools in your hand-knitting toolkit. Yarn is important, to be sure — but of what use is even the most fabulous pink MOHAIR, if it hurts when you knit? Over the years I’ve collected many bits and pieces of information about keeping your hands in good shape —…
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Selvedge or Edge Stitches in Knitting
Soooo… you want to be a better knitter? Probably one of the single biggest wholesale improvements you can make to your knitting is: use edge stitches. Unfortunately, this is one of those knitting things that sometimes I hear complaints about: that no one explicitly spells out this for you in a knitting pattern — you’re…