Knitting Tips and Tricks , Odds and Ends
You want to knit more quickly? It’s a battle of fingers and mind! As soon as you decide to knit faster your hands tense up and you focus so much there’s a 99% chance you’ll make more mistakes and feel more pain after each knitting session. What’s the answer? I’ll give you lots of tips […]
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Knitting For Profit , Knitting Yarn 101
When you want to start knitting a new project you have to find a few things. The pattern, the tools and your yarn. But does choosing yarn for knitting hold you back? Maybe you need yarn in two or three colours and you just don’t know which combinations to pick? There are a lot of […]
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Two colour knitting doesn’t have to be difficult. You may immediately think of fancy fair isle cardigans that you only aspire to possibly knitting one day. Perhaps you’re thinking of how your Gran used to knit snowflakes on the front of warm jumpers for the whole family at Christmas. (and that’s complicated knitting, right!?) […]
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Were you watching last week when I revealed 15 behind-the-scenes nuggets from Knit With Hannah? Each year there is a challenge set for Instagrammers, by fellow maker Joanne Hawker. If you’re over there on IG you may have seen jewellers and potters sharing more about their lives this month, in #meetthemaker. I’ve decided to take […]
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What do you want to know? Are we hiding anything behind the scenes of Knit With Hannah? Do I have 15 house elves knitting for me when I test out my patterns? (nope, elves are best at cleaning and fetching!) Is there a yarn store right next door, that caters to my every whim? (oh, […]
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Knitting wrap and turn is all about knitting short rows. ‘Wrap and turn,’ and ‘short rows’ are techniques seen in knitting patterns and if there are not illustrations to show off the splendour of the effects you can produce with them, they can be confusing. When you knit a short row you’re creating an uneven […]
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To knit SSK you need to get your head around slipping stitches. And when I first saw this and learned the intricacies it felt like I was cheating, as I thought ‘if you’re slipping stitches you’re not actually knitting them!’ What I discovered from practicing a few times, is that you’re actually using stitches from […]
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SKPO is a great little tool to add to your toolkit of knitting abbreviations. You’ll more likely find it in patterns from the UK, (I’ll show you teh US equivalent next week) and it’s as useful as k2tog. We will likely see it alongside k2tog as skpo produces a mirror image of the more common […]
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Knitting kfb isn’t as difficult as it looks. Of course the first instinct when you see the abbreviation translator is ‘how do you knit into the front and back of a stitch at the same time?’ But take a look at the stitch, there’s one loop making the stitch. The focus needs to be for […]
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If you’re coming across psso in your knitting pattern you might be wondering what on earth it means! Quite simply, the most confusing thing about psso is that it is usually combined with other abbreviations to make a larger textured section. Let’s face it, not many knitters are that keen on long strings of abbreviations! […]
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