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How To: Grafting | Brooklyn Tweed
Learn how to join live stitches with grafting! This technique sews two sets of live stitches together to mimic a row of knitting and is often used on sock toes, underarm stitches in bottom-up seamless sweaters, and anywhere else you want to join two pieces of knitting without a visible seam. In this tutorial, we show y
How to Join Cotton and Linen Tape Yarn
When joining a new skein of tape yarn like Habu n-100 Wide Cotton Gima, Julie avoids disrupting the texture of the fabric by overlapping the yarn ends as little as possible. But because cotton and linen aren’t as grippy as wool, there’s a chance the short tails might slip out and unravel. Julie has an unconventional y
How To Knit: Quadruple Ribbed Decrease | Brooklyn Tweed
HOW TO KNIT: Quadruple Decreases in 2x2 Ribbing The Quadruple Ribbed Decrease is a very neat fashioned decrease worked in 2x2 ribbing, which elegantly maintains the ribbing pattern while decreasing 4 stitches at a time. We show you how to work both left- and right-leaning quadruple decreases. Written Steps Quadruple De
Changing the length of a sleeve — Kathryn Folkerth Designs
Let’s talk sleeves. I recently conducted a survey about alterations that knitters regularly make to a knitting pattern for a better fit. One of the most frequent answers was either shortening or lengthening the sleeves. If this is an alteration you need to make but you’r