Don't forget: You are beautiful, and you deserve beautiful knits that fit your beautiful self. NOTE: The photos demonstrate where the tape measure should be placed. When YOU measure yourself, don't...
Cast-On Place a loose slipknot on needle held in your right hand. Hold waste yarn next to slipknot and around left thumb; hold working yarn over left index finger. *Bring needle forward under waste yarn...
How to Block A Lace Shawl Using Blocking Wires You can always use pins to block any lace project. But for generations, women have used thin wires, or even strong lengths of cotton thread, in place of pins...
Picking Up Stitches: Cast-On or Bound-Off Edge Picking up stitches is a way to add new stitches to an already finished bit of knitting--along the sides for a buttonband, perhaps, or at the neckline for...
Picking Up Stitches: Slipped-Stitch Side (Row) Edge Picking up stitches is a way to add new stitches to an already finished bit of knitting--along the sides for a buttonband, perhaps, or at the neckline...
Cast-ons *Loop working yarn and place it on -needle backward so that it doesn’t unwind. Repeat from *.
How To Do Mattress Stitch: Vertical Seams Fear the mattress stitch no more! Here's a step-by-step tutorial to help you master this easy seaming stitch. For seams worked vertically (such as a side seam...
How To Do Mattress Stitch: Horizontal Seams Fear the mattress stitch no more! Here's a step-by-step tutorial to help you master this easy seaming stitch. This tutorial is for seams worked horizontally...
Bind Off Cut the yarn three times the width of the knitting to be bound off, and thread onto a tapestry needle. Working from right to left, *insert tapestry needle purlwise (from right to left) through...
Decrease Slip two stitches knitwise one at a time (Figure 1). Insert point of left needle into front of two slipped stitch-es and knit them together through back loops with right needle (Figure 2).
Cast-On Leaving a long tail, make a slipknot, and hold yarn as shown (Figure 1) . *Bring needle in front of thumb, under both yarns around thumb, down into center of thumb loop, back forward, and over...
Increase With left needle tip, lift strand between needles, from back to front (Figure 1). Purl lifted loop (Figure 2).
Don't forget: You are beautiful, and you deserve beautiful knits that fit your beautiful self. Check out Sandi's Measuring Tutorial With Photos for more info. Ease: Positive versus Negative What...
Embroidery 1) Draw a pair of parallel lines where the stitching will go. Pull the needle through from the back of the fabric to the front at the edge of the lower line. 2) Insert the needle into the fabric...
Increase With left needle tip, lift strand between needles from front to back (Figure 1). Knit lifted loop through the back (Figure 2).
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