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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Reworking an old sweater: a job for the Garde Tricot

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In classic French cuisine, one of the standard kitchen positions is called  garde manger,  which translates literally into "guard of th...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Fixing brioche stitch: Dropping a ladder in brioche and half-brioche, then latching it back up again

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I'm no kind of expert in the brioche stitch.  For example, I just learned the other day that what I was taught to call brioche 30+ years...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Dekink yarn with steam--instant results

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Back in 2007, TECHknitting blog showed how to de-kink yarn, but time does not stand still.  In the intervening years, a newer INSTANT-steam ...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Shaping in the Kitchener row--useful for getting rid of the "donkey ears" on sock toes, or grafting uneven numbers of stitches together

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This is part four of a four-part series on grafting (Kitchener stitching) hand knits with a sewing needle. The first three parts are already...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Grafting ribbing without the 1/2 stitch offset--two tricks

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This is part 3 of a 4-part series on grafting (Kitchener stitching) hand knits with a sewing needle. The first two parts are already on line...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Step-by-step Kitchener stitching with a sewing needle
stockinette, reverse stockinette and garter stitch

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This is the second post in a four-part series on Kitchener-stitching with a sewing needle. The first part is an introduction and also sho...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Kitchener stitching (grafting) with a sewing needle, the contrasting color way
also called the "chimney" method of grafting

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TECHknitting blog has shown how to graft (Kitchener stitch) without a sewing needle.   This all-knitting graft is one of the most popular po...