Tag: techniques

Centering a picot over a single stitch.

There are certain kinds of stitch patterns that I like to finish with a picot bind-off, placing the picots so

Sometimes I discover that my brain has been thinking up things while I wasn’t looking, as it were. I love

I’ve been considering multiple yarnovers some more, and also talking them over with some friends on Ravelry. (Thanks to you

In Knitting in the Nordic Tradition, Vibeke Lind describes what she calls “lace casting on”. This is a length of

Twigg Stitch: A New Twist on Reversible Knitting, by Vicki Twigg. Interweave, 2014. ISBN 9781596688223 (Ravelry listing) I picked this

Christine Guest recently wrote a really fascinating series of blog posts about a stitch from Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury that’s

Last weekend I was inhaling Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns. (I was in a rush as I’d borrowed it

A few days ago, I saw a nifty bind-off linked on Pinterest*: a faux crochet loop edging. Neat! I thought.

I mean, there’s a lot I don’t know (and I’ll tell you so), but sometimes people ask me questions about

Knitting: Dealing with cable splay. (The way that cables worked above stockinette or garter will pucker the fabric.) Anna Zilboorg’s