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Saturday, October 1, 2011

How to sew on a button without the spacer sandwich

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A spacer sandwich?  What? one kind of spacer sandwich Actually, this post is not about UFO's on a bun, it's about a differe...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Subscribing to TECHknitting blog

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Folks have been writing, asking how to subscribe to TECHknitting blog. Here is a method via  Google Reader.   After you sign into Google ...
Friday, September 16, 2011

My sweater slips off my shoulders...

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TECHknitting blog is not about knitting rules, in fact quite the opposite--it's about knitter's choice. Yet if someone INSISTED that...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

How I cured garter stitch border flip: another method for encouraging garter stitch borders to lay flat

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7 illustrations, click any illustration to enlarge Now the bands don't flip, so jacket can be worn open   Recently, I completed a l...
Monday, July 25, 2011

I-cord with added curl (and maybe beads, also)

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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, ...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

My hat is too loose...

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"My hat is too big!  How can I tighten it?" is a question frequently asked on community knitting boards.  Luckily, there are two g...
Monday, May 9, 2011

My sweater is too tight under the arms, or at the chest/bust--the magic of gussets

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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...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

My sweater is too long, my sweater is too short...

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Changing the length of a garment is actually fairly easy (at least conceptually).  The technical details are in a previous TECHknitting post...
Friday, May 6, 2011

My sweater is too wide...

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TECHknitting blog is starting a new series on garment correction, inspired by a question on Ravelry . The first in the series is:  " my...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Items started along a long edge--how best to cast on

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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...