Line Drawing Socks KAL - Week 1: The Leg
Hooray, it's knit along time! This is week 1 of the Line Drawing Socks KAL and we're going to kick things off by casting on and knitting the leg of our sock.Before You BeginThanks to Makers' Mercantile...
View ArticleLine Drawing Socks KAL - Week 2 : The Foot
It's week 2 of the Line Drawing Socks KAL and we're going to be setting up for our afterthought heel then knitting the foot of our sock.Before You BeginThanks to Makers' Mercantile for hosting this...
View ArticleLine Drawing Socks KAL - Week 3: The Toe
This week we are knitting the toe of our Line Drawing socks and this is going to be the shortest and quickest section KAL. You may even consider starting your second sock before we knit the heel next...
View ArticleLine Drawing Socks KAL - Week 4: The Heel
The Line Drawing Socks KAL has been so much fun, but it's time to finish things up and knit the heel of our sock.Before You BeginThanks to Makers' Mercantile for hosting this event. All of the KAL...
View ArticlePattern Release: Wallflower Sweater
As the summer temperatures begin to climb, many knitters avoid projects like sweaters. However, a nice warm weather yarn and a short-sleeved sweater pattern, may change your mind.Wallflower...
View ArticleThe Importance of Swatching your Knits
Give a cheer if you love to knit gauge swatches. (Awkward silence.) Not a lot of joy comes from swatching before you start a knitting project, but if you don't want any unexpected surprises later,...
View ArticleTips for Tracking Your Progress in Complex Knitting Patterns
Some knitting projects are repetitive and easy to memorize. Others are complex and require more concentration to track your progress across multiple pattern and shaping elements. Luckily, there are...
View ArticleKnitting Tutorial: Open Bar or Open Make 1 Increase
Usually when you are increasing stitches in your knitting you want the increase to be inconspicuous. However, there are times when you want an increase to be decorative, design element. Hence, the open...
View ArticleKnitting Tutorial: Decrease Slants and Stitch Charts
Decreasing stitches can be frustrating to new knitters. Not because decreases are difficult to execute, but because it can be hard to remember which direction a decrease slants. If you are working from...
View ArticleKnitting Tutorial: Tied or Smocked Stitches
Smocking is primarily considered a sewing technique, but did you know you can also create smocked stitches in knitting? When worked across even intervals, smocking can add extra interest to ribbing by...
View ArticleHow to Cast On Underarm Stitches for Top-Down Sweaters
Many top-down sweater knitters like to use the backward loop method to cast on stitches when it's time to divide the yoke and begin knitting the body of a sweater. I usually take a different...
View ArticlePicking Up the Sleeve Stitches for Top Down Sweaters
The best part about knitting a top-down, seamless yoke sweater is there are no pieces to join together. Although, the prospect of picking up the sleeve stitches at the underarm may initially feel more...
View ArticleKnitting Tutorial: Suspended Bind Off Purlwise
The suspended bind off is probably the method I use most frequently to finish my knits. It's a close cousin to the common knit (or purled) bind off, but it has a little bit of added flexibility. In...
View ArticlePattern Release: Little Birds Phone Pocket
Keep your hands free and your cell phone handy with a lanyarnd style phone pocket.Little Birds Phone PocketMaterialsThis phone pocket is knit with Schoppel Zauberball Crazy, a sock weight blend of wool...
View ArticleKnitting Tutorial: Turkish Cast On
The Turkish cast on seems almost too good to be true. It's quick and arguably easier than any other method for casting on.Before You BeginThe Turkish cast on is considered a double-sided cast on...
View ArticleFinchley Graft: An Alternative to the Kitchener Stitch
If you have ever been frustrated trying to remember how to do the Kitchener stitch, let me introduce you to your new favorite knitting skill, the Finchley graft.Before You BeginLike it's cousin the...
View ArticleHow to Knit an I-Cord
Often considered a kid's project, knitting an I-cord is an easy way to create straps or handles for bags, edging or just a fun embellishment.Before You BeginAn I-cord is just a narrow, knit tube or...
View ArticleHow to Use a Spool Knitter
I recently discovered my grandmother's spool knitter in a little box of treasures. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, but until that day, I had never used this clever tool. Now, I'm spool knitting...
View ArticleDoing the Russian Join with Cotton Yarns
I haven't met a knitter yet that likes weaving in yarn tails, so teaching people how to do the Russian join is a technique I demonstrate whenever I get the chance. (Here's the tutorial.) I was recently...
View ArticleReverse Knitting: Knitting from Left to Right
Conventionally, most knitters are taught to work their stitch from right to left. However, did you know that stitches can also be worked from left to right? This technique goes by many names such as...
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