From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Make Sure You Swatch!

March 16, 2009

This might be news to some people, it certainly was to me:
Your project is more likely to turn out right if you make sure you’re getting the right gauge by swatching.
Getting the right gauge means you have the same number of stitches per inch and per row as called for in the pattern. Knitting [...]

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New Magazines and Insanity over Trains

March 14, 2009

I went to the bookstore yesterday and had to buy the latest issues of  Knit.1 and Interweave Knits. There are several projects I want to do in both magazines.
I’m still a bit mad about something that happened at the bookstore, so I’m going to write it down here and not think about it anymore.
There is [...]

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Three Pants From One Shirt!

March 13, 2009

This won’t work for long as Deja gets taller. But right now the pattern pieces fit perfectly three times on one of Chris’ XL long-sleeved shirts. The red stripe was across the chest of the shirt, and the purple waist bands were parts of a purple t-shirt of Chris’.
So I fit the leggings pattern fit [...]

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Shirt Pattern Design Progress

March 11, 2009

This is the second iteration of this pattern. The first time I made the sleeves both too short and too tight.
Good thing I have Deja to test all my patterns out on. I can grade them up or down once I get them exactly the way I want and the garments aren’t wasted because Deja [...]

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Stranded Knitting

March 10, 2009

I love the look of knitting with two colours. The way the patterns look and mixing the colours.
I never thought I could do it, but was inspired to try when I saw so many mitten patterns on ravelry.  They were so cute!
First I knit someone elses pattern, to make sure I know how to knit [...]

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