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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Not suitable for children?

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Even though I try really hard to stick to my knitting, sometimes the goofiness of the web just begs for comment. I've always thought my...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Working in ends on multicolor knitting--part 2: the back join

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The previous post showed the Russian join . That join is unquestionably an improvement over leaving the ends hanging, and ... (cue ominous o...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Working in ends on multi-color knitting--part 1: Russian join

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Several readers have e-mailed recently, asking how to work in ends. This has also been a recurrent subject on several knitting boards. IM...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Smelly woolies...continued

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As a "smell" theme seems to be developing over the past two posts , this topic might as well be stretched to three in a row and h...
Monday, June 18, 2007

QUICKtip: Buying silk yarn--beware the SMELL

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Sometimes, silk smells so terrible as to be unwearable . My nose forcibly reminded me of this recently when shopping for materials from whic...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

QUICKtip: Keep your woolies smelling nice & prevent m*ths

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In the same way as I channeled my mother on mother's day , I am channeling my father on father's day. My dad was an excellent, if ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Charting charts: a new way to keep track of knitting lace

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A long, long time ago, when I was a young 'un, a knitting pattern for this--> used to look like this: GRANDMOTHER'S LACE EDG...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

Correcting errors in the rows below, part 3: adding an increase

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The real way to repair an increase you missed is to rip it out and do the whole thing over. This is because the increase would have added y...
Friday, June 8, 2007

Correcting errors in the rows below, part 2: moving an increase

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Just as you may discover with horror that a decrease was put in the wrong spot some rows below (see post of June 5, 2007 ) so that same misf...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Let's speed things up...

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Sadly, this tip is not about speeding up your knitting--it is a bit of blog-housekeeping, instead. Some readers have complained that this bl...