Tutorials
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How to Adapt a Sock Pattern to Your Favourite Needles
Since I started knitting socks a couple years ago I have almost exclusively used double pointed needles. A lot of people think I’m crazy for doing this and I have definitely scared the occasional newcomer at knit night with my many needles, especially when a 5th is in play to cable. Most of the first sock patterns I made didn’t specify what kind of needles to be using in the sock pattern. As I’ve branched out and tried patterns from more designers I’ve noticed that a lot of patterns are written for magic loop. I have never tried socks on magic loop, but I have tried sleeves and I HATE…
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Fixing Knitting Mistakes by Laddering Down
You know that moment when you look down at your knitting and realize it doesn’t look right? It sucks. It’s terrifying. It’s frustrating. It makes you question what kind of knitter you are – will you rip the whole thing back? Will you accept the mistake and keep moving on? Or – how could you have been so stupid as to make that mistake? This usually happens when I’m talking too much and not paying enough attention to my knitting. Case in point: when I made this error in my Hot and Bothered Cable Dress I was at knit night. Often when I find a mistake, especially far down in…
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Mini Tutorial – Twisted Knit Stitches
I wasn’t intending to do many tutorials at all, but today I did something I frequently do when attempting to fix my mistakes – twist the stitches I am putting back on my needles after ripping out (frogging) a section. I realized I could do a really quick video with something my friend Nicole taught me a few weeks ago. You’ll see that all the stitches on my left needle are twisted. So here’s a really quick video on what it looks like to fix this twist in 1 step instead of 2!
