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Friday, March 1, 2013

A post in which TECHknitting appears at various places in the knitting world

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Even though I recently wrote  that there would be no posts for a while, as I (try to, anyhow) work o...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Status report: why there have been no posts for a while, and won't be for another while

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As long-time readers know, I have always had in mind to write a book.  I've made several attempts over the past three decades.  These at...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Cuff-to-cuff: dealing with with the body stitches

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The morning's e-mail brought an interesting question about casting on extra fabric in a cuff-to-...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Splitting knit fabric into two pieces: a very quick trick

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  This was posted earlier today, but then google ate it, so here it is again.  Sorry for any confusion * * * I made a sweater sleeve, ...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Reworking an old sweater: a job for the Garde Tricot

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In classic French cuisine, one of the standard kitchen positions is called  garde manger,  which tra...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Fixing brioche stitch: Dropping a ladder in brioche and half-brioche, then latching it back up again

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I'm no kind of expert in the brioche stitch.  For example, I just learned the other day that what I was taught to call brioche 30+ years...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Dekink yarn with steam--instant results

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Back in 2007, TECHknitting blog showed how to de-kink yarn, but time does not stand still.  In the intervening years, a newer INSTANT-steam ...
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Friday, December 7, 2012

Shaping in the Kitchener row--useful for getting rid of the "donkey ears" on sock toes, or grafting uneven numbers of stitches together

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This is part four of a four-part series on grafting (Kitchener stitching) hand knits with a sewing n...
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Grafting ribbing without the 1/2 stitch offset--two tricks

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This is part 3 of a 4-part series on grafting (Kitchener stitching) hand knits with a sewing needle....
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Step-by-step Kitchener stitching with a sewing needle: stockinette, reverse stockinette and garter stitch

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This is the second post in a four-part series on Kitchener-stitching with a sewing needle. The fi...
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