The tubular cast-on is the method that is the most similar to the type found in commercial knitting pieces. It works best with 1 x 1 ribbing and it gives the edge a rounded finish. It gives a neat and stretchy finish too. However, there are so many different methods out there and I find […]
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Lifted Increases Lifted increases create a neat increase with no holes. They are created from the stitch below, so they can easily used in place of a make one increase e.g. m1r, m1l, m1a, m1t. Lifted increases can be created in mirrored pairs – the left-lifted increase (LLI) and the right-lifted increase (RLI). They can
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Lapwing Revisited Lapwing is one of the first ones that I released on Ravelry but I’ve never been as happy with it as some of my more recent ones; as it wasn’t written in the same comprehensive way. It was time that it had a little bit of TLC and it’s been re-written, tech edited
This is a useful technique to use with my latest pattern, Merin. Merin has a central column of centred-double decreases (CDD). As with many projects, stitch markers can help you keep track of the position of changes in pattern. However, using a stitch marker with a CDD can be tricky as the marker will constantly
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Meet the Merin shawl. A two-colour shawl using laceweight yarn with lots of garter stitch and a small palette of lace stitches. The yarn I used is the gorgeous Gretchen Heavy Lace by Posh Yarn. Posh Yarn don’t make repeatable colourways but they’ve got some lovely colours of Gretchen Heavy Lace in their update on
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I seem to have lost my blog mojo at the moment. I’ve not been in a very talkative mood of late, so I’ll just share some photos without commentary… If you’re curious about something feel free to comment though.
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. I had a fabulous new camera, so for a change I’ll just show you a photo post.
I finished another project recently but didn’t get any decent photographs of it. It’s a new pattern from Sirdar 4493, which has a cardigan and coat variation. I did the largest size in the coat. I just adore the collar. The yarn I used is Click DK in Blueberry, which is a really unusual deep
The reindeer jumpers are finished. You may remember, I blogged about them. Well, now I have two very cute jumpers. The phrase that keeps coming to mind for the little one is “mini me”. Both have little pompom noses, but it’s the reverse of the jumpers which is the best! That’s two little people with
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The House of Bee: Bees are busy and industrious, but can flit from one interesting project to the next as bright shiny things capture their interest. The House of Manatee: Manatees are gentle, calm and cuddly. Relaxed and unflashy they represent the comfort and soft side of knitting and crochet. The House of Monkey: Intelligent
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