Pattern: Magic Friends (click here for Ravelry link) from Knitter’s Stash, September 2001, Interweave Press This versatile pattern is for a simple double-knitted toy that can become a bear, a cat, or a bunny — and anything else you can think of, probably — with a few changes in the features. My purple bear is…
Fashion, Style & Fit, Project Prep
Project Prep: Beware of Photographs – More Examples
“If you tell people something and show them a photo, then they are more likely to believe what you are saying – even if what you say isn’t true.” My biggest knitting pattern peeve is photography that is a deliberate misrepresentation of the article in question. There are a lot of tricks to accomplish this…
Ask the Knitting Teacher, Fashion, Style & Fit
Ask the Knitting Teacher: What Can I Do About Baggy Raglan Sleeves?
Introducing a new feature on TessKnits.com: answering selected reader questions about knitting. If you have a knitting question that is of reasonably general interest, go to the Contact page and send it in! No guarantees, no prizes, no personal responses – but you might get an answer, and inspire a good blog post. Ingrid writes:…
Stitches, Technique Speak
Best Knitting Advice Ever
The most important piece of knitting advice I ever found was in the Holiday ’87 issue of Vogue Knitting. A wonderful knitter wrote a letter to the editor which greatly influenced my knitting success. This woman’s letter largely influenced how I became a “fearless knitter.” A word of advice to new knitters. I learned to knit and purl…
Blog, Knit History
Knitting On Stage and Other Superstitions
I was listening to an audiobook that involves the theater, and was surprised to hear a character declare that “knitting on stage is bad luck”. Having at least 50% of the qualification, and never having heard of this one, of course, I had to look into it. And yes, I found several sites that insist…
Fashion, Style & Fit, Project Prep
Project Prep: Beware of Photographs – Renata
I got the Tahki Stacy Charles newsletter today, and there is a free pattern for download for a pretty cute little summer cardigan called Renata. There is also a video of the garment where you can see a 360 degree view of it on a model. A model who keeps her arms deliberately down at…