Here is the end of the MHB posts – unless of course I get curious about another aspect of the fabric. I was thrilled to
Miniature Herringbone Stitch, a super thick, cool, underused stitch, has some quirks when you are designing with it. It helps to choose your needles, and
Ah, Miniature Herringbone Stitch, the super dense knit fabric that looks woven. My Herringbone skirt was made in it. I played a lot with it
I became intrigued by the Miniature Herringbone Stitch during Christmas of 1990. I’d never seen it in a magazine pattern but I was sure that
I was 15. Mom and I had bought too much acrylic worsted yarn, it was tricky to substitute for the ribbon yarn the pattern called
The fun thing for me about ring cables (well, one of the fun things) is that you can create horizontally symmetrical designs without changing knitting
I wanted my leaf stems to look like they started somewhere on purpose. Just beginning a rib of knits on top of a field of
Ring cables look like they are joining up at top and bottom by combining increases and decreases with cables worked at a steep rate and
Yesterday’ s tutorial covered working the Christmas Tree Increase from the front of the work, my favourite method. Whenever possible, I work ring cables in
There are other tutorials for this technique up, I’ve even made some – the first one I posted on my homeschool blog, which goes into