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Color is tough, because it’s as much personal preference as anything else. For Harriet’s Hat, Harriet picked out the colors of the Gilbert Bain Hospital and interlaced them through this beautiful design, adding pops of color here and subtlety there. Here’s what the finished project looks like, courtesy of MRI Markers. Notice the snowflakes are […]
Now that you’re familiar with how to read a knitting chart, you may want to make some changes to the ones you run across. In this case, I’m knitting Harriet’s Headband and I want to use 2 colors instead of 6. As you can see, it comes out quite lovely! It’s just a question of […]
Knitting charts look much like something spit out by a spreadsheet program. They are a section of a pattern depicted graphically rather than in words, and can be very useful when you are showing color changes (like in fair isle) or texture changes (like the one pictured here). Following the number sequence, you’ll notice that […]
This is written to accompany the Harriet Hat Knitalong, but it will work any time you need to swatch for a project you’re knitting in the round! 1) Cast on 50 stitches* and join to work in the round – but make sure you leave a 4-5” gap in the yarn between the two edges. […]
Now that you’ve completed your swatch, and it’s been washed, blocked, and dried, it’s time to measure it to see what kind of fabric you’ve got. You’ll need a ruler that’s at least 6′ long and your swatch, a flat surface, and a pointed object like a knitting needle will be helpful too. (Use it […]
I think, on some level, we’re all afraid of swatching because we don’t want to get bad news – namely, that the fabric we’ve just knit isn’t going to give us the results we want for our project. I think also, personalities like mine just want to charge ahead and get started, and we’ll adjust […]
Join us in our July/August knitalong to learn (or practice) fair isle knitting for good cause! Harriet Middleton, a resident of Shetland, volunteered her knitting as a way to help raise funds for the Shetland MRI Scanner Appeal. (The quick version: the community hospital in Shetland doesn’t have an MRI scanner, so residents must make […]
My left hand is in a splint for the next few (2-6!!) weeks for tendinitis. Once I got over the ‘that means VERY LIMITED knitting!’ and the ‘why is it tendINitis’ when it’s a tendON that’s inflamed, I set out to figure out how one can continue our craft with this limitation, which is admittedly […]
Besides Merino wool, that is! This beauty is one of the earliest crops in our garden. And this ONE was enough for 3 dinners! (No, not a dog nose. That was just the inspection.) Comment below with your answer and we’ll pick a winner at random from the correct answers. What’s in it for […]