How to:
Knit jogless stripes in the round. (Many thanks to the knitter who posted this link on
knitblogs a while ago.)
22.11.02. «
Mah-tha gives us instructions and a template to make a pretty neat
sweater stocking for the holidays. And for free! (Although I'd wish she'd kill those popups. It's not like she
needs the few extra cents that popup advertising could give her. Ahem.)
21.11.02. «
Cross-stitch portrait patterns of sci-fi characters, including Spike from
Buffy and Captain Picard from
Star Trek: The New Generation (no
Wesley, though. Surprised? I hope not). I don't cross-stitch, but I suspect there's a whole lotta work involved to get one of those portraits out.
[link via
quiddity]
20.11.02. « | +
Feel like knitting yourself a pair of
period stockings?
18.11.02. «
Short row shaping for stockinette stitch on
knit rows, and on
purl rows by wrapping stitches. For my current cabled and ribbed project, I figured out the technique I used for shortrowing between purl and knit stitches myself (I didn't wrap stitches, I used different types of yarn overs and later knit the floats created together with another stitch) because I couldn't find explicit instructions on how to do it for anything other than stockinette stitch in my reference books, but I think
this method could be adapted for chart patterns as well.
14.11.02. «
Look at this
1904 doll sweater pattern - the body of the sweater is knit in one piece, then short rows are used to create a "pouch front", resulting in the "pigeon-breasted" look that was popular during the era. Neat!
06.11.02. «
How to:
Do the two-tail cast-on and the
tubular cast on for 2x2 rib (scroll to the bottom of the page) by using the "crossing stitches" method. I use the two-tail cast-on for most regular edges and the
tubular cast-on for ribbing (unless the wool is too bulky or bumpy as this type of cast-on is elastic, but it creates a thick edge).
05.11.02. «
