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Using a Latch Hook (5*)

knitting on Buttons (5*)

spacing buttons evenly

Seam as you go cardigan

Ending with a french knot

create duplicate chain stitch to finish binding off on a circular needle

crochet Hook Bind-Off in knit

Decreases

Think of knit stitches as little porky pigs; they are short and wide...they're so fat that it takes four of them side by side to create an inch. Yet they are so short that you need six of them to achieve the same inch (knit gauge graph paper/Print A Grid)

I use old fashoined wooden clothespins and work on a large pillow placed on my lap. Every so many stitches, let's say twenty or thirty, I place a clothespin on the stitches to hold the bottom edge to the inside of the needle

I use old fashoined wooden clothespins and work on a large pillow placed on my lap. Every so many stitches, let's say twenty or thirty, I place a clothespin on the stitches to hold the bottom edge to the inside of the needle

Running short...purl into the first stitch without taking that stitch off the left-hand needle. Instead, place your new stitch that's on the right hand needle onto the left hand needle in order to gain a new stitch. tighten it slightly for tension. now purl into this new first stitch and place the next new stitch you create onto the left hand needle as well...repeat

Bread the Bobbin

The general rule to reel off three times the width of your piece and add 10 percent of the original width

If you knit with coned yarns as is, you will see remarkable transformation when you wash your swatch. The was washes away, the yarn springs back, and the swatch fluffs up to fill empty spaces. Some yarns that appear limp and lifeless are transformed into something wonderfully soft and springy. You can really see how much the yarn decompressed

If a wool yarn is rough and scratchy put some hair conditioner or creme rinse into the wash. This will soften the fabric considerably, after all what are woolens but animal hair, and animal hair will respond to conditioner just like your hair does

buy one skein of yarn before investing in all the yarn for a project

Making a swatch is like test driving your yarn