Tag: Myrna

  • Myrna Techniques and Resources

    I’m also done with my sweater body, and that will mean that it’s time to bind off soon. I like to use a basic chain bind off where you work two stitches and pass the previous stitch over to bind off. With my knitting style, I don’t have trouble getting this BO to be stretchy…

  • Joining the Fronts and Back on Myrna

    After you’ve knit the fronts, your sweater will look like this. It doesn’t look much like a sweater, but once you fold it at the shoulder “seam” at the cast on edge, remove the scrap yarn, and put the pieces on the needles in the right order… Suddenly it all makes sense! Right now the…

  • Knitting Myrna’s Upper Back

    The hardest thing about my favorite construction method is visualizing how everything comes together in the beginning. It can be difficult to trust that everything is going to work out if you can’t imagine how the pieces work. To start off Myrna, you first knit the upper back. Because of the keyhole, there are four…

  • The Outfit Along Begins

    Ready? Go! Are you starting your knitting project first or your sewing project?

  • OAL Plans

    My goal for the OAL projects was to try to use some of my fabric from my stash. My yarn stash is almost all leftovers or stuff for design work, but my fabric stash is embarrassingly large for how little I sew. A lot of it is really old, too. I bought this floral fabric…