The shizknit: Tutorial Tuesday: Adding a crochet border to your knits. Old British Knitting Abbreviations. Same color or changing color. Wrap and Turn, Short-row Knitting Tutorial « Cotton and Cloud. Do you have a favourite knitting technique that you use all the time? Mine is “wrap and turn”. The reason why I am blogging about wrap & turn is because many of my patterns include this technique. So, I thought it is about time for me to do a detailed tutorial about it. Recently one of my new patterns called Hollyberry Bonnet & Cape have been published in Interweave Holiday Gift 2011 (super hurray!).
This pattern is a typical example of wrap & turn technique.The horizontally shaping of the cape and the bonnet brim shaping are all worked using short-row technique. I was thrilled to read in the magazine that the design is expertly shaped and designed. Seeing such a wonderfully edited and stylised publication of my knitting pattern, it made me think even more that I want to make sure that my patterns are logically constructed, knitable and achievable with 100% satisfaction! So today I would like to write a detailed knitting tutorial about “wrap & turn”. by M. RIGHT-SIDE of the work 1. 2. 1. How to Read a Knitting Pattern | Getting Started | Instructions Asterisks, Parentheses, and Brackets | Knitting Garments Once you’ve learned the basics of knitting – how to cast on and bind off, how to work the knit stitch and the purl stitch –you’ll be ready to start your first pattern.
(If you need help with learning the basics, visit www.LearnToKnit.com.) In the beginning, looking at a knitting pattern can be very confusing — is that a foreign language it is written in? Well, no, but it is the special language of knitting, which uses many abbreviations and terms, which save space and make patterns easier to read. Some of them are easy to understand, like these: Basic Stitch Abbreviations K or k = knit stitch P or p = purl stitch A complete list of knitting abbreviations and terms and their meaning can be found at: www.YarnStandards.com. Getting Started With the abbreviations and terms at hand, let’s look at a typical knitting pattern. Let’s start by working a flat piece. There are many methods of casting on. Return to top. How-to: Mattress Stitch.
For a lot of knitters, seaming finished pieces together is their least favorite part of of a project—it’s time-consuming and can turn out so ugly. But for those who have joined the cult of mattress stitch, the technique of sewing pieces together on the right side for a virtually invisible seam, finishing is a relatively effortless and almost magical process. Mattress stitch is also a very handy skill for making great looking knitted toys. There are several good mattress stitch tutorials on the web, but since there are some specific issues with seaming toys that aren’t found so much in garment knitting, I thought it might be helpful to do a toy-specific tutorial on the techniques. In this post, I’ll cover the basic “flat” seaming: vertical, horizontal, and vertical-to-horizontal mattress stitch.
Then I’ll demonstrate how to use mattress stitch to sew on a 3-dimensional limb, such as an arm, and also how to sew on a limb at an angle. Vertical Mattress Stitch And they disappear entirely!