How to Knit Your First Sock is aimed at someone who would love to knit socks but has never tried them before. However, I assumed that you are not knitting a sock as your very first knitting project and know how to increase, decrease, slip a stitch, knit and purl. There isn’t much ...
The first brioche round is worked as (sl1yo, brp). Bring the yarn to the front and slip a stitch, then bring the working yarn over the right needle and back to the front between the needles. Work a brioche purl (brp) by purling into both the yarn over and stitch as one....
Now that your work is all set up, you can continue with your decreases according to the pattern(remembering that you will have to switch to double pointed needles when you have too few stitches to comfortably go around your circular needle, described in detail below). Round 1:purl to second...
Welcome to the club Jessica! This pattern will always make a square shape as a finished product, so as long as you are okay with a square dish towel, this will absolutely work – simply increase it until you reach your desired size. There are many other beautiful patterns for towels out...
1 Begin the first row by purling one stitch. 2 Create a slip stitch for the second stitch in row one. Place the yarn in front, insert the right needle into the next stitch from back to front and slip the stitch off. Repeat until the end of the row. ...
Why so dreaded? Because knitting a gauge swatch prolongs the moment when you get to cast on for the project you’re so excited about. But once you realize that knitting a gauge swatch is just doing more of the thing you love (knitting!), you may actually start to enjoy this step!
So I will knit 3 sts, thenmake 1 stitch24 times (this will bring me to the end of the round) and I will have 96 sts. It gets a little more complicated when the numbers don’t work so perfectly. Example:For the size XS: you have 80 sts, and you need to increase 24 sts, 80...
purling or raging in ways we can hardly anticipate except that they find their way and take form through writers. And us too, not with the same intensity, but it’s when we meet words (phrases, etc., language at large), as much as people, that we know ourselves. It’s these words...
As fair-isle colourwork is typically stockinette stitch (knitting all sts on the RS, purling all sts on the WS), the chart key will typically describe whichcoloursto work each stitch with, rather than thekindof stitch to work. So when you see a square that corresponds to CC1, you will...