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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Lace knitting can seem pretty daunting to the new knitter, but all lace knits, from the simplest eyelet pattern to the complex designs of Herbert Niebling, from simple mesh dishcloths to the gossamer shawls of Eastern Europe, are all made up of the same basic stitches. Today, we’ll learn the basics of lace knitting, and [...]  Hi everyone! First an apology that there’s no tutorial today. Not only do I have a rotten cold, but it’s been an exceptionally hot week, and my air conditioner is broken. The air temperature in my apartment is currently about 40C (meep!!) so I’ve taken refuge in the local net cafe – but though I [...] 
I have so many pairs of disposable chopsticks lying around – no matter how many times I say I don’t need them, the convenience store clerks will still almost automatically put a pair in. Instead of throwing them away, I decided to make knitting needles from them instead. For this project you’ll need: Disposable chopsticks [...] Fairisle or stranded knitting is one method of knitting with more than one colour at once to form a pattern. The colour you are not knitting with is carried along the back of the work, which is why it is called stranded colourwork. Usually only two colours are used in any one row of knitting [...] Magic loop is a useful technique for knitting in the round, enabling you to knit any size piece, even down to glove fingers, on one long circular needle. Today we’ll learn how to knit with the magic loop method, and how to do a forward cable, while making this simple shawl-collared shrug with cable details, [...] This video shows you two ways of joining yarn – a Russian join and a felted join (spit splice). Russian join is more complicated but can be used to join pretty much any yarn. A felted join is very quick and easy, which makes it good for crafts like nalbinding where you have to [...] Nalbinding was around 2000 years before knitting. Examples of this ancient technique have been found by archaeologists in Egypt and across Northern Europe. Some call it ‘Viking Knitting’ as it was most widespread amongst Scandinavian peoples. But what is it, and how is it done? Nalebinding (also spelled nalebindling, naalbinding or nalbindning) means ‘needle tying’ [...] Knit charts aren’t always rectangular – in fact some lace charts, for example shawls or doilies, can be very odd shapes indeed. The reason for that is that the chart is meant to show you only the stitches you actually need to knit. Because charts are a visual representation of the knitting pattern, it makes [...] A few weeks ago, we learned how to cast on, knit, increase and decrease, and bind off. Today, we’ll add to that by learning to purl, and a rather nifty technique called illusion knitting, to make what at first glance looks like a simple striped handbag. Seen from the right angle, however, a row of [...] On Wednesday we began our first knitting lesson with casting on, how to knit, how to make an increase, and some pattern abbreviations. Today let’s finish off our project with two types of decrease stitch, and how to bind off. First let’s recap our pattern: co 5 and knit 3 rows Increase section row 1: [...] |
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