Japanese Notation (Garment Notation) displays abbreviated knitting instructions on a visual diagram of your garment piece. It can be used for increases, decreases or short row shaping. An instruction of 1-2-9 means (decrease, increase or hold) 1 stitch every 2 rows 9 times. If the…
Have you ever had one of “those” days?Yesterday was one for me and I thought you might be amused. Plus it’s good to be reminded that you aren’t alone with your knitting! I was playing with an idea for our hat challenge, I was considering using…
New Classroom |Sleeves When choosing knitting patterns, the first thing to consider is the basic shape of the sweater, especially the sleeves. Consider: Ease of knitting:Drop shoulder, and square armholes are fast and easy to knit. Full- fashioned armholes involved a little bit of shaping…
Over the years, automatic patterning on knitting machines matured. Early machines had buttons to push to create stitch patterns. Later, punchcards mechanisms were introduced and finally, electronics were added. If you have an 8 stitch, 12 stitch, or 24 stitch punchcard machine … or even…
Do you use Cut ‘n Sew for shaping? Once you get over the fear, there are so many times this technique comes in handy for machine knitters. We recently explored using stabilizers to improve our cut ‘n sew skills … and we were pleasantly surprised!…
“I don’t want ribbing on my sweaters”
Have you heard that before? The hems on today’s fashions are straight and “unfinished”. If there is ribbing, it is loose and blocked out.
Here are 6 Alternatives to ribbing at the bottom of your sweaters
When knitting in ribbing, sometimes the edge stitches don’t knit correctly. Adding a little weight can help. 2 styles of weight hangers are specially designed for our machines.
You’ve run out of yarn, or you’ve ripped out some rows … your carriage is on the left and the working yarn is on the right …. how do you get your carriage back to the right – without dropping stitches or removing the carriage from the needlebed?
A fellow knitter recently commented that her set in sleeve pattern instructions looked “wonky”. There were 74 rows in the armhole opening and 62 rows in the sleeve cap. She thought the sleeve cap was “too short”.
Hand knitters often talk about “reading your knitting”. Once you’ve mastered the basic knit and purl stitches and are ready to branch out with your knitting, this skill is essential in keeping track of stitch patterns and for more enjoyable knitting without laboriously following a pattern row by row.
