TECHknitting

Gardening  (as it does every summer) has taken the front seat here at chezTECH .  As a consequence, knitting has no power over me just now, ...

"My hat is too big!  How can I tighten it?" is a question frequently asked on community knitting boards.  Luckily, there are two g...

If the bust/chest area of a sweater is too tight, you can fix this by messing around with the armhole length.  Are you surprised? In fact, t...

Changing the length of a garment is actually fairly easy (at least conceptually).  The technical details are in a previous TECHknitting post...

TECHknitting blog is starting a new series on garment correction, inspired by a question on Ravelry . The first in the series is:  " my...

A perennial question on community knitting boards is how best to cast on along a very long edge, such as a scarf made edge-to-edge (as oppos...

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...

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

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

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 ...