I'm not sure if these are fashionable facts about knitting, more 10 interesting facts . Watch the video to decide for yourself.
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Not too sure of your times table? Use the quick reference multiplication table inside......
Another potential knitting project for our beginner knitters. I may even use the pattern to make a Youtube video if my nephew will be kind enough to do a bit of filming for me.
The pattern is available free at FreeKnitting.com. You have to register to download the pattern but it's well worth the (minimal) effort. ![]() I want to make up a sample of these gloves as I think this will be the perfect pattern to teach my beginner hand knitting students how to: Rib Knit In The Round Work Straight on Circular Knitting Needles The original pattern calls for the use of Double Pointed Needles; personally I'm not a fan of them so I'm going to rewrite the original pattern so that the group can practice the magic loop method. One of my favourite knitting YouTubers. I first came across Cheryl Brunette when I had my Bond Knitting machine and wanted to know how to use it! I think I've watched most of her machine knitting videos but need to catch up on her hand knitting tutorials.
Having watched numerous videos and practiced the two colour brioche stitch over and over, I have to say I'm beginning to feel a bit more comfortable with the technique. Granted I don't know much yet, I still have to learn how to increase and decrease and how to correct my mistakes, but I feels as If I'm well on the way to becoming a fully fledged brioche knitter...........yippee....it's the hardest thing I've had to learn in a long time!
The Long Tail Cast On is a great cast on to know if you need to cast on quickly and you have a lot of stitches to cast on.
Having both a yarn winder and swift is a God send if you work with hanks of yarn which are 'plaited' and need to be wound in to balls or cakes of yarn before they can be used. I have a couple of yarn winders, acquired with the purchase of various knitting machines, but I'm yet to own a yarn swift. I rarely buy hanks of yarn so it's never been a necessity but It is on my knitting wish list.
I was so pleased to discover this very stretchy cast off (bind off). There are quite a few stretchy bind offs out there, but the thing I like about this one is that it doesn't flare and it's easy to learn; simply bind off as you would normally but give the stitch on the right hand needle a quick twist! Who knew the cure for tight ankles when knitting socks would just be a quick twist of the needle.
A lady in my Twiddle Muff knitting class mentioned that she and her son had made the Knit a Bunny From A Square Pattern. It's something that I looked at a few years back and found ingenious - who comes up with these things? I'm guessing origami had some kind of influence in it. Anyway, I came across this video which wasn't around when I first came across the pattern and I have to say I think her bunny looks better than the other patterns I've come across.
I was doing my usual Saturday morning shop when I discovered a new yarn in Poundland. I initially only picked up one ball, priding my self on my frugality, but then I decided I wanted more so I went back to get it - frugality is rubbish, not doing that again, it just makes you do things twice.
I'm trying to get to the end of this week, so I can knuckle down and start thinking about what I hope to achieve in 2017 knitwise. The club will no doubt evolve in to the sum of it's parts but I'd like to have some patterns and tutorials lined up for the beginner knitters.
I came across this picture when I was scouting around looking for an image to add to my About Me page. I was looking for a picture that depicted a caring hands-on Auntie, but this one looks more like Stepford Psycho Mommie and soon to rebel crazy kid.
I'm not a big fan of using bobbins when knitting intarsia. For those who don't know, Intarsia knitting is when you knit blocks of colour but don't want to carry the yarn not in use along with you as you knit along. It makes for very neat colourwork, and lots of colours per row can be used. It differs from the other method of doing colour work which is Fair Isle Knitting.
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Craft - 'An activity involving skill in making things by hand.
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