Tag: Advice
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How to Find Where You’re at on an Old WIP
Picking up an old work-in-progress sometimes has its challenges if you didn’t leave detailed notes somewhere easy to find! My projects using other designers’ patterns tend to be extremely long term projects that get put on hold for months at a time, so I’ve got a lot of practice trying to work out the mysteries…
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Keeping Track of Row Counts and Stitch Pattern Repeats
When you’re knitting a sweater with a panel or all-over stitch pattern, you generally have to keep track of how many rows you’ve worked and where you are in your stitch pattern repeat. But how to do it? There are a lot of different methods for keeping track of where you are in a stitch…
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FAQ: Are you sure the pattern is right?
One of the most frequent questions I get about patterns isn’t about confusing instructions or a specific request for help. The question is, “Are you sure this is right?” Often it will include some variation on, “Am I really supposed to knit this many rows? The larger sizes don’t have as many.” Or the smaller…
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Anaheim’s I-cord Edging
If you’re knitting Anaheim without tie modifications, the i-cord is worked all the way around the opening, and it can be challenging to visualize from the instructions because the pattern has you picking up stitches, joining in the round, and then knitting a bunch of odd, itty bitty rows. The pattern photos show the end…
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Counting Stitch Markers
Before I got really good at “reading” my knitting, I was a devoted counting stitch marker user, and I’m constantly surprised by how few knitters are familiar with them. The concept is simple: markers get linked together, and as you pass them from one needle to the next, you move down the chain of markers.…