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October 13, 2004
PROGRESS EVERY DAY
This is my new goal. To make progress every day. Whether it be 6 loads of laundry and a pot of chili (yesterday) or a project off the needles and being blocked (today). I would even settle for 2 loads of laundry or a project started.
So I'm not the most experienced knitter in the world. But I know some stuff and I figured that some of you might be more interested in the stuff I know than me rambling about melted candy corn. So I'm going to try to share some stuff I know. Maybe you already know my stuff too or more stuff than I do, but maybe you don't and it'll improve your knitting life (I can hope, can't I?). Plus I have to admit this will help me - when people email with questions about how to do things that I put in my patterns, the answer will already be ready. Next week (or relatively soon) I'll tell you how I cheat when I'm too lazy to do an invisible cast on, but first on the list is something more basic: raised increases. When I first started knitting I used to knit in the front and back of stitches all the time. I still do that sometimes. Then I really got into lifted increases. They were my favorite, but lately, I really like M1L left slant raised increase and M1R right slant raised increase. Here's how you work them on the knit side:
Using your left needle, pick up the top strand that goes between the needles from back to front.
Knit the loop you picked up through the front.
There it is.
Using your left needle, pick up the top strand that goes between the needles from front to back.
Knit the loop you picked up through the back.
There it is.
Work both around a central stitch to have mirrored increases. Pretty, no?
Posted by kate at October 13, 2004 08:01 PM
