String Geekery

A trick for making long-tail cast on looser

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

Here’s an interesting way of increasing to start knitting cables, from Luise O’Neill of Impeccable Knits. A tutorial for a

(Good for any yarny craft, and probably some others too.) This is a variation of a conversation I had on

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

I-cord buttonholes from TECHknitter, and other knitting buttonhole tricks. Unusual crochet techniques (well, I think so, anyway. Maybe everyone else

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

(Tunisian crocheters, this is somewhat relevant to your interests. Think about the loops from the forward pass of a row

My original secret code posts were done as blog posts, linked together, but they got unwieldy and out of order.

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

How to Crochet Bobbles in a Knitting Project <- what it says on the box. Making a string of double