I finished up my lace ribbon scarf yesterday. My bind offs are usually pretty tight, so here I tried an SSK bind off, which I’ve never done before. It looks…
Sleeves
I’ve decided to knit the sleeves for my hexacomb cardigan flat, like the pattern calls. I think the set in sleeves will look nice (as laiane suggested). Anyway, I’ve also…
Baby’s First Three Needle Bind-off!
I did my very first three needle bind-off tonight. Hooray! At least the vest from hell led to one good thing. All I have left to do is knit the…
Sock Research
I found a website telling me how to knit my sock heel on the two circs. It is pretty intuitive, I’m sure I could have figured it out myself if…
Surgery
I spent the morning fixing the vest and now it is ready to knit again. I was having trouble picking up the stitches that dropped several rows down because of…
Pants on Fire
So, my socks aren’t exactly magic loop like I thought they were. Funny story – I clicked on the wrong video on knittinghelp.com… oops. Knitting a tube on two circular…
Casting On the Head Hugger
I’ve been working on my head hugger this weekend to the detriment of my other projects, but I’m already nearly half way finished. I bought the yarn before I left…
oops! (almost) & avoiding future mistakes on the vest
I realized this morning that I forgot to check the erratta for the vest pattern before I started working on it. (Pepper!! You must remember to do this every time!!)…
Grafting
A tip from today’s Knitting Daily: how to graft kitchener-style on the needles. http://www.knittingdaily.com/posts/legwear/306-1.html stored away for future use…
purl front and back
Someone on Craftster sent me this video of how to do a pfb, to help with my Danica questions. Here is the link so I don’t forget…http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/increases (it’s called a…