Category: Techniques

Meditations on the foundation base chain

What’s this fancy edging for this knitted swatch? Well, I started with this: The crocheters among you will probably recognize

I saw a link to a phototutorial for making this cast on on Pinterest, so I tried it out for

(Good for Tunisian crochet as well as knitting.) Some people will tell you to do a long-tail cast on with

In both knitting and crochet, there are a number of places where one begins a piece by making a slip

In my playing around with Tunisian crochet, mostly in the form of swatches, I’ve fallen in love with using knitting

Here, at last, is the unusual double decrease I unvented for a shawl that I’m in the midst of writing

Or any other knitters whose stitches often sit like this on the needle: All the stitches here assume three stitches

A double decrease is a technique used in knitting to knit three stitches together to make one; two stitches are

I was a knitter before I was a crocheter, and so it made sense to me to use knitting cast

Just when I think I’m getting a handle on things, something comes along and shakes me up. In this case,