Finishing Your Knits , Knitting Tips and Tricks
Picking up stitches when you’re knitting can sound like a counterintuitive instruction. As the stitches are already on your needles, right? You can bet that there will always be phrases in knitting that you won’t understand. Believe me, I come across them regularly too! This instruction may sound like complete knitting jargon (only those who’ve […]
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Finishing Your Knits , French Knitting , Knitting Tools
Last week I showed you how to start your French Knitting, (if you’d like to see that video first, where I also show you where I found these gorgeous french knitting dolls, click here) this week we can finish and make something with the resulting i-cord. There are so many ideas out there, but first we […]
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Beginner Knitters 101 , Finishing Your Knits , Knitting Tips and Tricks
Once you’ve finished your knitting, in most cases you need to use a casting off technique to remove the stitches from the needle. How do you cast off if ribbing, and does stocking stitch need a different cast off to garter stitch? In this video I’ll show you three cast offs, which should stand you […]
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Beginner Knitters 101 , Finishing Your Knits , Knitters Sewing Essentials
If there’s any sewing to do while you’re finishing your knits there will be ends of yarn to be woven in. And let’s face it there’s always the cast on edge too, which has to start somewhere, and that’s another loose end of yarn. How to weave in ends so they are less vulnerable to […]
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Finishing Your Knits , Knitters Sewing Essentials
Have you ever knitted a square hat? I mean it’s easy, right? Just plain garter stitch and sew up one seam? It’s the average hat that you find in your first ‘how to knit a hat’ tutorial. Then when you wear it does it feel like there’s a bit too much room in the crown? […]
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Finishing Your Knits , Knitters Sewing Essentials
We all need hats with that extra touch of special sometimes. And you’ll find cycles of favouritism through various brands of special if you live as long as me! Pom-poms were so ‘in’ during the 1970s and they felt a bit nerdy when I was becoming a teenager in the 1980s. All of a sudden […]
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Finishing Your Knits , Knitters Sewing Essentials
Whether you call it stocking-stitch or stockinette, or even ‘the wrong side of knitting,’ you will finish knitting one day and realise there’s a seam that needs securing. And that seam may appear unfathomable. It’s not as confusing as all that. Just take a bit of time to understand the fabric and you’ll be flying […]
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Finishing Your Knits , Knitters Sewing Essentials
You’ve knitted a rectangle- great job! Now you need to join it together somehow, to create a knitted headband, a bracelet, a coin purse or a square toque or beanie. This is where the problem arises… you signed up to learn how to knit, not learn how to sew! Can you hear the screeching ‘Jaws’ […]
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Christmas Knitting , Finishing Your Knits , Knitting Tips and Tricks
What happens when you either forget the k2tog or drop a stitch and have the stitch drop through a k2tog? Disaster! Do you unravel three or more stitches to start decreasing again? Or do you do what I do, that is take a crochet hook and save the k2tog right there in the middle of […]
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Christmas Knitting , Finishing Your Knits
Find yourself some chunky (bulky) yarn and a pair of scissors and you’re ready! Is it that simple? Well yes, it is. Using a pom-pom maker, will do a similar job as your fingers, so I say, just use your fingers! Whichever path you take you’re going to have to do a lot of trimming after […]
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