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How To Decrease Evenly.
Posted by: Steve on: April 14, 2011
- In: General | Knitting | Knitting Links | Patterns | Software | Tips
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This is going to be a much used website for me! I detest the “decrease x sts evenly across row” instruction in patterns! With this, the headaches become a thing of the past. Hooray! Knitting How To decrease evenly.. This is just one of several very useful tools that The Knitting Fiend kindly provides. Check [...]
Tip: Pictorial Knitting
Posted by: Steve on: March 11, 2011
- In: Design | Intarsia | Knitting | Tips
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In making the Frog Beanie, I learnt something that I think is useful for anybody who knits pictures. It would be very tedious indeed to portray ragged things, like grass, by using the normal Fairisle or intarsia methods. I wanted just that effect on the Frog Beanie though! After a few moments’ thought, I [...]
Knit Design Studio
Posted by: Steve on: February 17, 2011
Yesterday, I discovered a great piece of software! Knit Design Studio by Savannah Winds allows charting of knitting designs, with a good range of symbols set up for your use. You can even design cables in it! It’s not only excellent for creating your own charts. I have often come across charts that can rapidly [...]
Tip: Grafting
Posted by: Steve on: January 18, 2011
This describes anchoring a short row segment for adding other sections of knitting, for example a beard on a toy pattern. In fact, I’ll use the beard as the example throughout! Knit up to the row where the top of beard will be placed. Knit up to and including the stitch immediately prior to the stitch where [...]
Tip: Drawstring Finishing
Posted by: Steve on: January 17, 2011
Many of the toys I’ve knitted involve sewing down to the cast on edge, where you are then told to pass the yarn through the cast on stitches to create a drawstring effect. I did this several times and found the results less than pleasing. Now, if the pattern includes this process, I start with [...]
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