TEACHING AT YARNOVER:Are you going to the 2012 Minnesota Knitters Guild "Yarnover" event on April 28th? Ill be there, teaching one class on tips and tricks, plus another about new trick...
On a community knitting board recently, a member wrote that she can never divide for a V-neck without getting a loose stitch at the division point.Here are several cures to avoid the problem, plus a ...
Forgetting a buttonholeIn this post, the sixth in a TECHknitting series about buttonholes, we turn to correcting errors--what to do when you forget to make a button hole, but the buttonholes were sup...
This is the fifth in a TECHknittng series about buttonholes for hand knitters.The first half of the post shows a traditional horizontal buttonhole; the second half shows an improved horizontal button...
In this post--the fourth in a TECHknitting series about buttonholes--were going to look at vertical buttonholes. The first half of the post covers traditional (simple) vertical buttonholes, as w...
This post--the third in a TECHknitting series on buttonholes--shows how to make the sheepseye buttonhole. Some folks call this buttonhole the "yarn over buttonhole," but I dont, because...
On the receding cusp of Sunday now-nessthree ways beckonLaundry?Nap?Knit a mitten?No.A poem instead--TK
This is the second post in a TECHknitting series on buttonholes in hand knitting. The first post covered lore and tradition about buttonholes, plus some nifty tricks. Today, some background inf...
This is the first post in a multi-post series on buttonholes. Some of this material has appeared in print in Interweave Knits, some of it is brand new. This first post covers the lore and ...
Pattern cover (click to enlarge)The spice road--stretching from China, through central Asia to easternmost Europe-- defined the route precious spices and silks traveled from east to west. The headgea...
4 illustrations, click any illustration to enlargeSometimes, a sweater pattern will have you cast off your sweater shoulders in "stair steps." For a sweater worked in stockinette stitch...
If you get a run in garter or seed stitch, it is easy to fix, as long as you keep your wits about you. (And if you already know how to do this, scroll to the bottom of this post for two shortcuts.)Ga...
Way back in May 2007, TECHknitting had a post on the two types of sewing needles: blunt pointed and sharp pointed. The point (ha!) was that each kind has a different use. Blunt points are...
Dear readers: you are amazing. Wow. There have already been more responses than I can keep up with--so thank you very much. Ill leave this up for reference, but with the text crossed out....
A reader wrote to ask about the three needle bind-off. (For the first TECHknitting 3-needle post published, I skipped a brain gear and got the illustrations actually backwards. In this po...
TECHknitting blog published a post on three needle bind off. Unfortunately, I skipped a brain gear and wrote the directions BACKWARDS which I did not realize until an alert reader commented.If ...
Please stop pirating my illustrations. It takes a long time to draw each one, each is copyrighted, and it is disheartening to see them ripped off. If you want to supply a Russian translation, f...
Seed stitch (sometimes called moss stitch) is a stitch pattern which arranges knits and purls checkerboard-fashion so that every purl is surrounded by 4 knits, and every knit by 4 purls. seed stitch ...
Here are some great links Ive been saving up. Thanksgiving seemed the right time to share these.A burn chart to help identify mystery fibersPrint off your own true-to-scale knitting graph paperL...
Two different strands wind through todays post, but never fear, they come together at the end.1. Thinking about thinking about knittingWhen I knit, my thoughts sometimes wander to knitting to the pas...
A recent post on Ravelry showed the problem with discontinuous rounds of color knitting against a solid background. Color knitting in the round forms a spiral. Therefore, the end of e...
Felting knitting, or "whats in a name?"Lets untangle the name first. Some call it fulling and some call it felting. Although there are technical differences between these terms, th...
There are many elegant and stretchy ways to start and end knitting, and particularly, ribbing. Among these are:Tubular cast onTubular bind offElizabeth Zimmermans sewn bind offJSSCO (cast on)JSS...
The TECHknitting pattern is now available for Elizabeth Cap. The pattern is 7 pages long and includes tutorials on two kinds of garter stitch selvedges and picking up stitch...
The last post was about a new pattern coming out by the end of this week, which represents something of a new direction for TECHknitting blog--a pattern offered for sale. This is a small patter...
Many years ago, I owned a yarn shop. I taught lessons, wrote patterns and sold them and did the whole business thing. I even started a knitting book. Oh, I even taught myself Adobe Illustrator,...
Hows this? "Cast on a multiple of 12 stitches plus 5." Or how about "pattern is a multiple of 9 stitches plus 3"? Does that sound horribly like high school algebra? ...
Until noon today, TECHknitting blog offered three random winners the chance to win one of three random books--books I somehow acquired doubles of over the years. After the noon cut-off, the thr...
Fall is coming. The cold-weather clothes are coming out. Heres a neat trick to get fix worn-out Uggs to get another years wear out of them.This is not actually a knitting post but close e...
Note: the below contest is now closed. Thanks for participating.The other&n bsp;day, while reorg anizing books in my studio, I realized I was seeing double. The knitted Lace of Estonia b...
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