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Sunday, April 10, 2011

A beautiful method of picking up stitches for a second fabric layer

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Here is a beautiful method of picking up stitches on the inside of a stockinette fabric, so as to create a second, inner layer of fabric fo...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Evenly spacing increases or decreases on an uneven stitch count

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Today's TECHknitting post shows two quick solutions to the common problem of placing decreases evenly spaced on a stitch count not evenl...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Respite knitting

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My adopted home state of Wisconsin has been rocked by political unrest I would have thought inconceivable a few short weeks ago.  The Japan...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Going to Yarnover? I'll be the one in a sweatshirt (the consequences of process knitting)

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Process knitting I spend the summer in the garden , but in the winter, I spend a great deal of time knitting--not wardrobe knitting, you ...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

When two strands of yarn wound together work up unevenly

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(A random Ravelry discussion triggered this post...) PROBLEM 1--Two different fibers which feed at different rates When two yarns of diff...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Jogless stripes--pretty picture version (part 3 of a series)

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Slip-stitch jogless stripes were the subject of a post way back in January 2007 . Then in the spring of 2009, Interweave Knits published an ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Helix (barberpole) stripes, part 2 of a jogless stripe series

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Helix or barberpole stripes are completely jogless, and, unlike nearly every other method of jogless stripes*  may be made as narrow as a si...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Article and video on jogless stripes, part 1 of a series

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Circular knitting, as you know, is actually a spiral.  Therefore, if you change colors to make stripes, the knitting will "jog." ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Socks falling down? Consider elastic

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Socks won't stay up? You're not alone. Socks are a very popular item to knit but  recurrent discussions on Internet  knitting foru...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Linky for KD readers (Fixing errors at the side edges of your knitting)

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Here is a handy link for readers coming from Kathleen Cubley's  dropped-edge-stitch  article  in Interweave Knit's web site, Knit...