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Published on May 2nd, 2018 | by Elizabeth Bagwell As we stock yarns from around the world, they’re not all manufactured to the same standard weights. Elizabeth Bagwell explains the different terms. Yarn weights are confusing enough when you stick to one system. With the plethora of beautiful yarns crossing the oceans every day, more knitters are getting in a tangle, particularly when substituting yarns. What does ‘yarn weight’ mean? The term ‘yarn weight’ refers to the thickness of the thread, not the weight of the ball or even of the thread itself. What’s a ply? Spinners pull fibres from a disordered mass into a single, long thread. Historically, this was a good way to describe weight, as plies were fairly uniform.
Yarn Weights and Hook Size Conversion Guide 0: Lace Starting with the thinnest yarns, this category covers: Lace yarns are often knit on larger needles to create a more airy effect so its important to find the right weight of yarn as well as getting gauge. The five gathered stitches. May 10, 2011 by knittingyards Today I am going try to show you how to do a stitch that has been referred to as the 5 gathered stitches.
A member of one of my favorite Yahoo groups, MMarioKKnits (yeah, I know, I have never mentioned Mmario before ) asked how to do this stitch. He is planning on knitting the gorgeous Queen Silvia shawl. 500-year-old knitting techniques used by Nottingham student to make £138 scarves - Nottingham Post. You might not expect a student in 2017 to have the expertise of using a hand-framed knitting technique that was developed in 1589.
But that’s exactly what Nottingham Trent University student Jacaranda Brain has mastered, producing a scarf using the historic machinery invented by Calverton’s William Lee. She made the winter-warmer garment while on a year-long internship at Chilwell knitwear manufacturer GH Hurt & Son, which is now selling the limited edition product for £138. The 22-year-old said: “As an artisan skill, I like the concept of the heritage and the idea of sustainability by using a hand frame to knit. Read More “It’s really important to keep the history of knitting alive. “I wanted to create a design that was traditional and similar to the hand-frame knitters used to do. “Also, I wanted to draw inspiration from Sherwood Forest, to tie in with Nottingham and the concept of local heritage.” Katrinkles. How-To Block Knitting Ultimate Guide: Wet Blocking & More.
Most knitters have heard of the term “blocking” but don’t have an understanding of what the process actually requires.
Many patterns end with the simple little word, “block.” Repairing a hand-knit sock with a knit-in-place patch. Counteracting a throw-away society Considering the time and expense of making hand-knit socks, it is well worth the effort to repair them if you eventually wear through a hole.
VKC: Tension, puckers & even stranded knitting. The secret to a truly great-fitting sweater. Hopefully those of you participating in the #fringeandfriendsknitalong are knitting away at whatever pace suits your lifestyle and heart rate.
Remember we’re not knitting to any particular schedule, but we will be continuing to post content here at what is likely a faster clip than most of us knit — that way the information is here when you need it, whether that’s next Thursday or next year. Last week we talked about the body and next week we’ll talk about the sleeves, but meanwhile let’s talk about row gauge! That under-discussed topic. In knitting and measuring swatches (in the event that even happens), people tend to focus on stitch gauge. Of course, stitch gauge is what will determine the width of your fabric — or more specifically for our purposes, the circumference of your sweater. #100daysofknitstitches – Brome Fields.
Top 34 Lace Knit Stitches eBook – Brome Fields. This PDF eBook includes 34 lace knit stitches from the #100daysofknitstitches series with a table of contents, a page for each knit stitch and an abbreviations section at the end of the book.
It’s a total of 37 pages. You can access all the pages individually for free here. To cut the book size in half, I changed the layout a little bit so that the picture and pattern are on the same page. Page size: 8 1/2 x 11Page count: 37 Purchase, download, print the PDF and then follow along with the videos for each stitch below! Tutorials – Mochimochi Land. For a lot of knitters, seaming finished pieces together is their least favorite part of of a project—it’s time-consuming and can turn out so ugly.
But for those who have joined the cult of mattress stitch, the technique of sewing pieces together on the right side for a virtually invisible seam, finishing is a relatively effortless and almost magical process. Mattress stitch is also a very handy skill for making great looking knitted toys. There are several good mattress stitch tutorials on the web, but since there are some specific issues with seaming toys that aren’t found so much in garment knitting, I thought it might be helpful to do a toy-specific tutorial on the techniques. In this post, I’ll cover the basic “flat” seaming: vertical, horizontal, and vertical-to-horizontal mattress stitch. Dog Sweater Knitting Pattern — handylittleme. Divide for back and belly Row 1: (rs of coat) k57 (65:71) sts for back of sweater, and work on these stitches only.
Leave rem 12 (16:18) sts on a holder for belly. Row 2: purl Row 3: (lead hole row) (rs) k26 (30:32), k1, sl 1, pass k1 over sl 1, * sl 1, pass next st on RHN over the stitch just slipped; rep from * 4 (4:6) times. Slip last st on RHN back to lhn. I am male, hear me knit. I posted on flickr a sweater I knitted for my brother's dog Maci, and have since been asked a couple times for the pattern.
I've never written a pattern before, but here's what I came up with. Feel free to use or modify it, and let me know if you have any trouble or suggestions. Dog sweater. Designed by Esther Smith Bozak, copyright 1995, 1996. (Please read the detailed copyright notice located at the end of the pattern). This pattern is the result of a several years' search for a well-fitting sweater for our 68-pound short-haired Australian shepherd/beagle mix. I ran into two major difficulties with the dog sweater patterns I was able to find: either the pattern was sized only for small dogs, or if it did come in sizes for larger dogs, the neck and chest measurements (the two usual measurements one is asked to take) didn't match our dog's.
If I made it to fit her chest, the neck was droopy, and the dog's movement would pull it down around her shoulders. Additionally, none of the patterns I found provided what I felt was sufficient protection for our dog against the snow and wind of a Central New York winter. All comments are welcome! Size Smart. Details Last Updated on Thursday, 05 October 2017 21:00 Published on Wednesday, 20 September 2017 10:57 By Sandi Rosner.
10 Fashionable Facts about Knitting. Tuesday Tip: Patty's Purls of Wisdom Style - Patty Lyons. The new Twist Collective is out with my newest Patty’s Purl’s of Wisdom column. I started revisiting some old columns and I wanted to bring you one of my favorites . . . socks, gauge and of course Do you have a question for me? Please email me at pattyspurls@twistcollective.com Here’s an oldie but a goodie: Technique, etiquette & lifestyle advice for the modern knitter Dear Patty (gauge lover) My friend took your gauge class & suggested I write to you. Signed, How to Read Brioche Lace Knitting Charts and Patterns. The world of brioche is expanding, and we have a new obsession: brioche lace. Brioche lace is a hybrid of brioche and traditional knit lace, offering up a whole new world of decreases and increases to play with.
These magical shaping stitches not only change the shape of the project, but they also help draw lines to create designs. Lesley Anne Robinson’s Provencal Shawl from Modern Brioche Lace Master brioche lace knitting as you create a stunning shawl, with expert guidance in this online video class.Get the Class. Size Smart: The Accessories Edition. WEBS Yarn Store Blog » 31 Days to Get Organized: Tracking Your Yarn Stash.
January 10th, 2013 Sorry to have missed posting an organizing task yesterday. Between digging myself out of what looked like a yarn stash explosion (I was right, it does look worse before it gets better) and dealing with a persnickety computer glitch, the hours slipped away from me. 21 things you only know if you knit. Tips On Growing Into Your Craft. A great variety of knitting patterns are now more available and accessible than ever before, thanks in part to online pattern databases and publishing houses dedicated to knitting patterns — in Brooklyn Tweed’s library alone there are more than 500 patterns.
VeryPink Knits. V e r y p i n k . c o m - knitting patterns and video tutorials - Home. One Pair of Hands: The Invisible Mend. Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post. I hope you can make some sense of it. I have used it twice before, once for a bachelor friend, to fix a hole in his Sunday best sweater, and the other for another friend whose puppy had chewed a hole in her husband's brand new sweater. Oh dear. In the interests of the popularity of both the puppy and my friend I had to make that mend as un-noticeable as possible. TECHknitting: Zippers in knitwear, the no-sewing way, update! In 2010, I wrote an article in Interweave Knits about installing zippers into knitwear, a new non-sewing way.
In 2012, I wrote an illustrated blog post about it. There's also a video about the method. TECHknitting: Fastening long floats for invisible stranding. Invisible stranding in color knitting via ladderbacks has been the topic of several previous TECHknitting posts.The first post was an intro to the STUART ladderback methodNext was an (adorable!) Skeleton hat showing STUART in actionThen, in the post right before this one, I showed a hot water bottle cover featuring a modification: using pinstripes to firmly fasten down the floats of a long ladderback, row-by-row. Cabling without a cable needle, on the wrong side — Sarah's way — Ysolda. Cables are one of my favourite things to knit. Interweave. Interweave Knits Winter 2018 features this knitted cable story and more!
Interweave. It might seem like a daunting task to fix mistakes when you're knitting cables, but it isn't. 3 Things Blocking Knits Can Fix (and 3 Things It Can’t) TECHknitting: Ordinary chain bind off, part 2b: binding off in the middle of a fabric. Includes 8 illustrations click any illustration to enlarge. Blog – The Plucky Knitter. Knitting Help - Sloped Bind Off. Search results for: 'Schoppel' - HotYarns.com. The Top 100 Best Knitting Blogs to Follow In 2018. Tuesday Tip - How to Measure Without A Ruler - Patty Lyons. National Knitting Week: Top 10 facts about knitting. Socktoberfest: Your Best Bind-Off for Toe-Up Socks. Snewsnet. Knitting in the Valley: Sock Blockers tutorial.
23 Weird But Awesome Knitted Things. 4 Common Magic Loop Knitting Problems & How to Avoid Them. Make a yarn ball - ialwayspickthethimble.com. Creating a Gorgeous Bind-Off Over Cabling - Creative Knitting Updates - August 3, 2017 - Vol. 14 No. 10. Staying Inspired: Five Fundamentals – Knitter's Review. SpaceCadet Yarn Bowls & Mugs by Pawley Studios. CVM/Romeldale 3.0 – Clara Yarn. How to avoid ladders on DPNs (double pointed needles) TECHknitting: Kinky yarn. 5 Secrets of Stitch Gauge - Patty Lyons. How to Block Knitting: Wet Blocking & Steam Blocking Knitting Techniques. 7 Discoveries That Started as School Assignments. People Can’t Agree Whether These Sheep Are Cute Or Terrifying. k1p1 invisible bind-off tutorial. Interweave. Stretchy Knitted Icelandic Bind Off.
How to Graft Stitches Head to Side - dummies. LYLYS: The Black Purl - Interweave. 6 Ways of Joining in the Round~ No more loose sloppy joins! The Black Purl – Opening April 12th, 2017 in the Village Gate Mall. 7 Little-Known Cast-on Methods That Will Blow Your Mind - Knitting for Charity. How to Make a Viking Knit Bracelet Tutorial. Knitting Tutorial: Basics of two-color Brioche. An Education in Lace Grafting: Practice Swatch 1 - Interweave. Brioche Knitting Demystified with Expert Knitting Instructions. Talks for the fiber arts lover. Cable Knitting : Keeping Track of Rows in Your Cable Knits - Interweave. Cable Knitting : Keeping Track of Rows in Your Cable Knits - Interweave. Dingo dyeworks hand dyers of luxury yarns. australian – Dingo Dyeworks.
Hypnotic Yarn. Fancy Edges With Stitches You Already Know - Creative Knitting Updates - March 30, 2017 - Vol. 14 No. 4. Pinstriping: vertical columns of color, added after the knitting is finished. Finishing: Picking Up Stitches" How to Knit a Perfect Edge – Finishing Free Technique – The Gift Of Knitting. Technique Thursday - Avoiding ears when casting on and off — Ysolda. 10 Ways to Style an Asymmetrical Shawl - Interweave. The 10 types of knitters. 10 Ways to Style an Asymmetrical Shawl - Interweave. The 10 types of knitters.
Neater intarsia. Lucky Violet Color Co Hand Painted Microbrew Yarn. Can We Quote You? Knit The Sky Giveaway! Lisa's List: 8 Ways To Knit And Why You’d Want To - Interweave. LoopsLove on-trend projects for luxury yarn lovers. Cloudy with a Chance of Bling — LoopsClub. On Assignment: Selbu, Norway in Photos - Geotraveler's Niche. Earthfaire. Nelkin Designs Blog: The Beadle Needle: A Video Review and Tutorial! HRH The Prince of Wales: Why we should buy wool this winter Watch Trespassing Bergman Online. 25 Knitting Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Knitter. Rain Mountain Crafts. An Interview with Liz Valentine from gnarledpaw Yarns - knotions. Can Learning to Knit Help Learning to Code? QI: how knitting was used as code in WW2? Jane Thornley. Knitting Time Calculator. 5 Knitting Hacks that Will Save You Money.