I’m continuing a blog challenge to myself to demonstrate the process of developing realistic motifs in several different techniques. Let’s make some exuberant beauty! My
Are summers family reunion times for you? I learned several crochet stitches from relatives (and in-laws of my relatives) at family reunions. I have a
I work a tubular cast on for 4/4 ribbing the same way I work it for the 3/3 and 2/2 ribbing; start with a provisional cast
I work a tubular cast on for 3/3 ribbing the same way I work it for 2/2 ribbing; start with a provisional cast on, then
This is a bit of a trick: you aren’t going directly from a tubular cast on to a 2/2 rib; you are making a tubular
I haven’t found any tutorials for how to work a tubular cast on English style starting from a waste yarn provisional cast on, although there
Introduction to the Magic Formula There is a formula to place increases, decreases, increase rows, buttonholes, and motifs evenly across a row (What a time
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
Have you looked at the Nennir Cowl from Knitty yet? This is a fine piece of work – the pattern is worked in one direction,
It was the early ’80s. My Grandparents had just moved back to the States from Beirut. They were missing the congregation they had been pastoring,