These are a few of my favorite posts

I drew a complete blank about what to write about this week. (It happens to everyone sometimes!) Instead, I’m going to share some links to some of my favorite technique posts that I’ve written.

Shawl starts:

• A Start for a Top-down Triangle Shawl
• Disappearing Loop as a Flat Knitting Cast-on for Shawls

(If you don’t like garter tabs, I bet you’ll like this!)

Crescent shawl selvedges:

• Crescent shawl selvedges
• Purse Stitch crescent selvedges

Increases and decreases

• 3-to-2 decrease (a single decrease that leans neither right nor left)
• Three 2-to-3 Increases

Picots

• Inside-out Picots & Variations
• Centering a Picot over a Single Stitch.
• Picot Bind-off Variations

Designing coordinating stitch patterns

• Making a Coordinating Stitch Pattern
• Vertical Excerpts

Miscellaneous methods:

• An Even Better Symmetrical Lace Chevron
• A Folded Join for Yarn
• Chain Loop Bind-off Worked with Knitting Needles, Not Crochet Hook.
• Knit Net
• Knitweaving: A Less Well-known Technique.
• The Physical Size of Multiple YOs (see also the linked posts about working multiple YOs on the next row)
• Twice-knit Knitting and Miniature Herringbone