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Monday, January 25, 2010

I cord from a mill: one more trick (starting from the center)

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In today's post on I-cord from a mill , I forgot to add: You can mill off a length of cord and just keep it laying around. Then, when ...

I cord from a mill

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Some time ago, TECHknitting posted on "how to knit I-cord." Since then, however, a nifty new tool (machine?) has become indispe...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Garter stitch in the round, no seams, no wraps, no turns

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Fleegle's brilliant genius has been celebrated on this blog before, and there is cause for celebration again, today. Fleegle has figur...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Uneven knitting, part 2: bunching, big stitches and lumpy fabric--the problems of too-long runs

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Part 1 of this series talked about uneven fabric due to   "rowing out,"   which is fabric uneven from row to row . In this post, w...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Now it starts

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Now we come to that part of the year when knitting shows its true value. Frenzied gift-knitting is past. The sun never truly lifts overhead...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Avoiding "nipple in the middle:" some tricks to improve hat tops, glove fingertips and motif centers

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You may be knitting a pattern starts or ends in the middle, and you may find that the very center stitches are humping themselves up into ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Drawstrings and baby caps

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A knitter wrote to me today asking about how to make a drawstring for a baby cap. I believe that the best sort of drawstring is no string at...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Two bits of knitting theory: the "work-to-glory" ratio and "product-plus-process"

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Today's post is also available as an mp3 file: click here to hear TECHknitter on "Two bits of knitting theory--the podcast."...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Short rows: method

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Today TECHknitting shows short row how-to: basic, wrap-and-turn, Japanese and so on. VARIATION 1: Basic short rows (category: no-wrap, no...