Suppose you have a pattern written for 18 stitches/4 inches gauge and your preferred yarn is 22 st. And suppose you are a small size. In a general sort of a sense you might find that one of the larger sizes is exactly what is needed.
I have a way of working this out, but it [...]
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Converting a pattern to the right gauge. A simple formula
Posted in knitting, tutorials, tagged forumla for converting gauge, gauge on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perfect left-sloping decreases
Posted in tutorials, tagged knitting, left sloping decrease, Techknitting blog on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the Richmond Knitting Group last night I mentioned that I’d discovered the perfect left-sloping decreases, so I thought I’d record the link details here. It’s a post by the brilliant Techknitting and you’ll find it here.
Honestly, it only looks complicated because she goes to the trouble of providing so much illustration of the technique. [...]
Set-In Sleeve Calculator. Free online tool
Posted in knitting, tutorials, tagged knitting, online tool, set-in sleeve calculator on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How useful is this. Inspired by Elinor who writes the Exercise Before Knitting blog (one of my favourites), a friend of hers has written a little program to do all the calculations for set-in sleeves.
For people like me who are forever knitting from stash and therefore changing the gauge of patterns, it’ll be mighty useful. [...]
The too-easy way to knit socks.
Posted in tutorials, tagged Bambi Grignasco, Cherry Tree Hill, double-pointed needles, Emily's Basic Circular Sock pattern, knitting, magic loop, Patonyle, socks, two circulars on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I turned my nose up at sock knitting to begin with. It took me a while to realise that socks are little works of art. If you can knit a sock there is nothing you can’t do in knitting. They are portable – I do almost all my sock knitting in coffee shops, trams, anywhere [...]
