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Thursday, 4 December 2014

Understanding pattern instructions FRONT and BACK of the knitted fabric

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There are lots of areas within a pattern where confusion can arise when describing how to do something. When knitting a garment you will oft...
Thursday, 23 October 2014

Knit 1 Purl 1 Rib Neckband for a V-neckline

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I have just uploaded a new demo to my YouTube channel showing you how to knit a mitred v-neckband in knit 1 purl 1 rib using a centre doubl...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Picking up stitches for the Neckband on a Round Neckline

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In my last post I explained how I knitted a round neckline to make it as easy as possible to pick up the stitches for the neckband and achie...
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Monday, 4 August 2014

Knitting a Round Neckline

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I've just come back from teaching a weekend course on Finishing Techniques at Farncombe Estate near Broadway and it came to my notice y...
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Monday, 12 May 2014

Decreasing on then purl side of the fabric to match the knit side

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I recently wrote about different methods of decreasing on the knit side of stocking stitch fabric and explained why you may want to use diff...
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Saturday, 29 March 2014

Decreases on the knit side of the fabric; which one to use

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Right Leaning Decreases In my experience the decrease that most people learn first is the Knit 2 together (k2tog) decrease. It is a fair...
Monday, 22 July 2013

Is it ever too hot to knit?

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I have to say that after the last few weeks of hot weather there have been times when I did think it was too hot to knit. It doesn't hel...
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I have be working in various aspects of knitting since the mid 1980s. I teach both hand and machine knitting and design and write feature articles for a number of UK knitting magazines. I sell patterns of my own designs, some of which can be seen on my website and some on Ravelry. I run a knitting surgery and sell my patterns at a number of hand knitting exhibitions and also sell patterns at a couple of machine knititng exhibitions. I also demonstrate knitting techniques for both hand and machine knititng on Knit1 TV
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