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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Techniques & Solutions
Technique Speak
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…
Technique Speak
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…
Felting, Patterns
Three Knitted Holiday Decor Ideas
As long as we’re on the subject of knitting for the holidays — if you have some spare time and spare yarn, here’s some cuties for you. All these are my original designs, and newly available on Ravelry. First up, felted Holiday Baubles, made with short rows in garter stitch and embellished in any number…
FO Files, Sox Therapy
Fair Isle Just Doesn’t Work for Socks
Today I have an FO to share and some free “experience”. You know what experience is, right? “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” ~~ Dan Stanford Ta-da! Here is the latest in socks for DH. I was pretty against the idea of knitting plain navy blue socks — how…