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 […]
This VERY important question came from a letter to the editor of the New York Times. Well said, Anna! So tell us, why do YOU knit? Leave a comment below, or join our conversation on social media. View this post on Instagram Look what Albrecht cut out of this morning’s The New York Times for […]
As a Morehouse knitter, you’ll know Evi as the designer of the Pagoda Cap and Mittens, and the inspiration for the Sojourn variation. In the winter of 2003, Evi was a painter and was living in a small vacation house on the Hudson River, using the house as her painting studio when she was not working […]
There are many inspirations for blankets and throws, and even more for scarves – but what if you could record a whole year in one project? That’s the idea of a Temperature Blanket! By knitting one row per day with a color that corresponds to the high temperature where you live, you’ll have a brilliant […]
An easy way to embellish the edge of any project: add an i-cord! Essentially, it’s a 3/4-stitch tube you’ll knit onto the project as you go. This video outlines how to do just that when you’ve already completed your bind off, or you want to add it along a perpendicular edge of your project. (Ooh! […]
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