Tag: OAL2014

  • Myrna’s Second Sleeve

    It’s been awhile since I shared my own Myrna progress! I met up with one of my friends last night for a little knitting, and I started my second sleeve. I made quite a bit of progress on it. Those short rows go by so quickly! I still haven’t started my dress yet, but I’m…

  • About Those Short Rows…

    I was asked to go into a little more detail about the short rows sleeve caps on Myrna for the OAL. The pattern has the first couple of short rows written out for you, and then it sets you free to continue to knit as established in those previous rows. In this section you’re zigzagging…

  • 3 Tips for Picking Up Stitches

    This is a post for knitters who love to be precise! Here are some of my best tips for even distribution when picking up stitches. 1. Break everything down into large basic sections to figure out how the stitches should be distributed. Divide up the area to be picked up from into logical sections. For…

  • 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…