A.’s Reviews > Lily Chin's Knitting Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts and Techniques Every Knitter Should Know > Status Update

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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

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