Basket Weave Dishcloth Pattern - Free pattern by Just Be Crafty. This pattern is perfect for beginners and just takes about an hour to complete!
Cowl Unisex Weave Knitting pattern Unique Winter neck warmer tutorial, 2 colors or just 1! Enjoy making this original braided cowl easier than you can imagine..... PDF include: - Text instructions in American Knit standard terms - Photo tutorial step by step photos of the entire cowl - Permission to sell finished item while you add a link to my pinterest @conpasionDIY Size: 13.8 x 27.6" (35 x 70 cm) width by length. Stitches: _Purl _Knit Materials: - Acrylic worsted medium weight yarn N.o 4, approx: 70 grams of each color. - Straight knitting needles sizes 5 mm (8) ------------------------------------- IMPORTANT!! This item can be sell online, publish in any social media or site, the only requirement is to add in the item description the proper credits for my design. ©UknitMe2 2011 DO NOT COPY, reproduce, distribute this pattern/idea/design/tutorial.
Nancy Zieman’s 6-in-1 Stick ‘n Stitch Guide is your go-to seam guide for perfect stitching. Learn about everything you can do with it!
Learn how to knit The Willow Dishcloth with this FREE pattern.
How to Knit the Basket Weave Stitch Diagonal Braided + Woven Cables Easy Free Knitting Pattern + Video Tutorial with Studio Knit
Meg, taught me this technique. Its brilliant and so much easier in the long run to weaving in ends with a darning needle or crochet hook. She truly is gifted. Thank you Meg! This technique can be use
Way back in May 2007, TECHknitting had a post on the two types of sewing needles: blunt pointed and sharp pointed. The point (ha!) was that each kind has a different use. Blunt points are best for such tasks as weaving, where you don't want to split the plies of the underlying yarn. Sharp points work well for splitting plies, good for such jobs as skimming in ends. Although each type is good at what it does, the truth is that it can get rather tiresome having to switch back and forth, for example: first threading to a blunt point for weaving in an end, then rethreading to a sharp point to skim in the last nub of the tail. The temptation is to skimp and just muddle through with whatever kind of needle comes to hand first. Recently, Patti from Canada was reviewing this old post. In response, she sent her own little trick to avoid needle switching. Her e-mail reads as follows: > If you need to use both kinds of needles, > it is easiest to thread onto a sharp needle, and > then just push it wrong way around > (eye first instead of point first) > in those places you need the blunt point. > Just be careful not to stab yourself. What a swell idea! No more muddling, no more skimping! Weaving with a sharp needle held wrong way around Close up No need to rethread onto a sharp point when the time comes for skimming in Using a sharp needle backwards: really very clever! (And I will try not to stab myself.) Thanks, Patti. --TK
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Diagonal basketweave is one of those knitting patterns that looks so intimidating, but once you understand the method is a lot of fun to knit.
Moebius Basketweave Cowl - VeryPink offers knitting patterns and video tutorials from Staci Perry. Short technique videos and longer pattern tutorials to take your knitting skills to the next level.
Goodness, it's been a busy old week on the blog. From not posting for weeks, I've now posted 3 times in 1 week! I guess that's how it works with craft projects, sometimes everything just comes together all at once. This little one has been finished for a while now, but I was waiting on Toni to have her baby before I posted it. Welcome to the world baby Isaac! You are going to be so loved. The pattern was a free Ravelry link, you can see it over here. I messed up the sleeves a bit, they're supposed to be the same texture as the back, but I kept knitting it back to front. After taking them out for the third time, I just cut my losses and went for straight stocking stitch. That's what you get for trying to knit with a cold. The yarn is just an acrylic DK, good for babies as it's machine washable and soft! I already had the yarn in my stash, as with the buttons, so all in all, this was a stash-bustin' make! Love them ♥
Needles : US 7 - 4.5 mm. Worsted Yarn : Lily Sugar'n Cream. 40g. Finished Measurements : Approx 8” x 8”. Basket weave Dishclo...
Spit splicing, Russian join, tying knots – what is the best option for joining a new ball of yarn for your project? In this video, we talk about the differences, and when it’s best to use each one. If
SKEINS: Main Color: 3 (4, 6) skeins of Purl Soho’s Season Alpaca; Contrast Color: 1 (1, 1) skein of Season Alpaca SIZES: 28–38 (40–50, 52–62) TO FIT: To fit approximate chest circumference of 28–38 (40–50, 52–62) -inch chest COLORS: MC, Dove Gray + CC, High Tide
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Dandelion Dishcloth pattern. Used Lily Sugar 'n Cream yarn and size 4.5mm. Cast on 39 stitches
Photos above © TwistedWhat beautiful knitting dishcloth pattern! I found it on Ravelry.This classic pattern is a great way to learn short rows of knitting backward. Knit two out of one ball of Sugar ‘
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Just as I mentioned mending knits with weaving, today I'm mending a pair of jeans! This technique of patching holes in clothing is known as darning and has been used for clothing mending for a very long time. You set up a grid using the running stitch and the area over the hole gets woven,
Okay! Here is where I attempt to show you the coolest.thing.ever that I learned from Jennifer "JP" Pett-Ridge during my colorwork class at my LYS Article Pract. The heavy pics are a necessity, and if you want to "get it" I'd suggest starting up a swatch and following along (I know as I look at these pics, they don't make sense... but as you go with needles and yarn in your hand, its a revelation fo sho.) These instructions are written for an English/right hand knitter, since I'm biased that way ;) (Seriously though, I don't know how to knit Continental so I can't show how to do it left handed.) (edit, 10/07: Jen in KS has unvented the continental answer for those of pickers who want to weave in ends while knitting continental! go jen!! :)) Also, please excuse my colorful hands... I fought the dye and the dye won. (Pics later, too many today!) :) First, begin with a new color. Knit the first stitch with your new color (black) as you would normally. Hold the end of the old color (purple) in your left hand, and hold your working/new color in your right as normal. You will not let go of the end yarn in order to keep it taut/tensioned-- it may feel awkward at first, but you don't want to drop and pick up the yarn. (I'm not holding the end/purple yarn in my hand in this pic, my timer went off too soon :)) While holding the yarn as described above, insert your working needle into the 2nd stitch on the needle as if to knit it normally. Take the end of the old color (purple) and lay it across the top of your working needle (counterclockwise fashion, the OPPOSITE of how you would wrap your working yarn to make a stitch.) You're just laying it on top of the needle and holding it there w/ your left hand. Another view of laying the end yarn over the working needle. Notice its just draped across. Now, while holding the end yarn in place as described above, knit a stitch with your new color (black). Note that the knit stitch is wrapped the OPPOSITE way that the end yarn is wrapped. Another view of knitting the 2nd stitch on the needle with the end yarn draped over the working needle. Pull the working yarn (black) thru as knitting a stitch normally. Note that the stitch is not only being knit, but the working yarn is "catching" the end yarn and going under it to create the stitch. Only the working (black) yarn will be pulled thru and made into a stitch. This is what the 2nd stitch on the needle looks like, as the end yarn is woven in behind. While still holding the end yarn in the left hand, knit a stitch with the working yarn normally. (You don't have to do anything "special" on this step except for retaining the end yarn in your left hand.) The working (black) yarn will go over the end yarn to "hold" it down and make it point downwards. (Second view.) How the 3rd stitch on the needle looks, as the stitch is worked normally as described above. What 3 stitches look like with the end woven behind the latter 2 stitches. Now, that's it. :) What I mean is, all you have to do is lay the end yarn over the working needle and knit, and then not lay the end yarn over the working needle and knit. Weaving in ends is just that 2-step process-- weaving in the end yarn and locking it down. Only the first stitch is knit normally, until you have enough of the end woven in as you prefer. (an inch? two? six stitches? twelve? up to you.) The following pics are a repeat of the process above as I work across the row. Again, lay the end yarn over the working needle in a counterclockwise direction, and knit the stitch with the working yarn as normal. The end is woven in as the working yarn makes its stitch. The working yarn makes a stitch as normal, and in the process "locks down" the end yarn that's being held in the left hand (but isn't being draped across the needle now). 2nd locking stitch complete. Here I've woven in the end of the yarn over 10 stitches + 1 (5 pairs of weaving & locking, plus the original 1st knit stitch). After the end is woven in to your desired length (and after a pair of weaving/locking stitches), you just drop the end and knit across as normal. This pic is of the WS after knitting/weaving across one row. If you look *super* close, you may be able to see where the end yarn (purple) is doubled-- every other "purl" bump on the WS will have a "double" bump where the end yarn has been locked down after being woven in. Its easiest to see this where the purple end is hanging-- the bump above is a doubled bump with the end woven in, and every other stitch preceding it also is doubled. Purl back as normal. All of the weaving happens on the wrong side (WS), so you have to have the right side (RS) facing you as you weave in your ends so that they end up on the WS. No work happens on the purl back/WS row. Here you repeat the weaving steps, this time with the end of the new yarn (the black end that was left from when you added the new color). New RS with new color. Note you can't see the purple end woven in thru the RS (and its pretty tough to see it on the WS, too!) :) Knit 1st stitch on needle. Holding end of yarn in left hand, lay it over the working needle in a counterclockwise dx. Knit stitch with end yarn draped over (sliding the working yarn under and catching the end yarn). Knit 2nd "locking" stitch as normal. Proceed across row, alternating weaving & locking til end is woven in to your satisfaction. As above, drop end and knit across as normal. (WS after knitting across row & weaving in the end yarn.) Near to impossible to see the black yarn end woven in, but its there. This is the RS after a few normal (non-locking/weaving) rows have been knit. Note that you can't see the purple yarn thru the RS where it has been woven in. This is the WS after a few normal (non-locking/weaving rows). Again, you can't see the woven in ends, but you can tell where they are from where the ends hang. You can trim these to your heart's desire too. **** I am super grateful to JP for allowing me to share this technique I learned from her. It has made a huge difference to me (and will in the future too!)... but my immediate gratification came from the Lizard Ridge project. I had been carrying up the working/alternating yarns up the side of the afghan as directed in the pattern. If I didn't, I would have to have 96 ends to weave in for each panel (not including the ends when starting a new ball, or the cast on/bind off rows-- there are 48 short rows to work and 2 ends each to weave in.) It would be mind numbing to weave in 384 ends over 4 panels, so I just carried the yarn up the side... 1st Lizard Ridge panel with stranded yarn up the side I didn't care for the look, and was terrified of finishing the afghan with all of these strands to contend with (and, one end of the afghan may have strands off of the side edge!). Again though, there's no way I was going to weave in those ends after... but this new weaving in ends as you knit is just the best.thing.ever... Nice, neat edge with ends woven in as I knit. Not sure how close I'll trim those ends once done. It may feel awkward at first to do, but you really get a hang of it and it doesn't take that long (and doesn't make me recoil like a darning needle does). I can see this technique opening up worlds to me-- I won't be afraid of stripes anymore, and as I am letting my fear of colorwork go, it will make the process more enjoyable as I won't dread the finishing. Good luck! Thanks again to JP for teaching me this AND allowing me to share it with yall... she teaches various knitting classes across the bay area-- jump at the chance to learn something from her! :) Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade zero.etsy.com
Rather than using a counter or making tick marks in the pattern margins or what have you, many knitters prefer to keep track of their work right in the work. We’ve talked before about using stitch markers to mark your rows or increases/decreases — so you can see at a glance exactly what you did and where […]
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We all know that knitting with different colors is a lot of fun and a great way to add personality to our knitting projects. Whether you’re working on stripes, stranded knitting, or intarsia,…
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Which way do you turn your work when starting a new row? I never used to think it mattered, but then I realized there really IS a difference!
