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Monday, September 21, 2009

Knitting from the center: "Belly buttons" and the umbilical waste cord method

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includes 6 illustrations. click any illustration to enlarge Why another method for center-started knitting? Knitters complain that starti...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Starting glove fingers, straps, belts and other tiny knitted tubes, with an aside on fruit flies

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GOODBYE, FRUIT FLIES! At ChezTECH it is harvest season and there are paper bags of tomatoes and zucchini and cucumbers standing all over the...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

I-cord tassels

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(No posts for a long time because I broke my ankle.  It's better now, though!)  Although similar in concept to regular tassels , I-cor...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Jogless stripes redux, coming May 5, 2009

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update, February 2011 : The article previewed below is now serialized in TECHknitting blog, beginning here .  * * * TECHknitting hits prin...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Crossing stitches: one way to avoid a hole on a vertical opening in knitwear

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On the community knitting board Ravelry , the subject has twice lately come up of crossing stitches to avoid a hole where a vertical open...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Casting on additional stitches at the end of a row or over a gap by the loop cast-on method: a trick for beautiful fabric

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Today's installment of TECHknitting shows a trick for casting on (adding) stitches at the end of a row, like when instructions say ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Ordinary chain bind off, part 3: binding off circular knits

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Includes 13 illustrations Click any illustration to enlarge When using an ordinary chain bind off to cast off a circularly knitted garment...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Ordinary chain bind off, part 2b: binding off in the middle of a fabric--ending the bind off

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includes 8 illustrations click any illustration to enlarge The last post was about starting a chain bind off in the middle of a fabric. ...