Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized, tagged attached I-cord, cable, cotton yarn, pullover, set-in sleeve, tubular cast-off, turn hem on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Gathered Pullover from Interweave Knits is not a difficult pattern. It took me 3 months because I decided to embark on some modifications to the pattern that required learning and trying out new techniques so I could do as little sewing as possible. At the end, I only needed to sew the shoulder seams.
First it [...]
Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe it’s been 5 months since I last blogged. I had hoped to keep up even though I took on a temporary job in June last year. As my job assignment is coming to an end soon, I am finally able to think about other things again besides keeping up with the daily [...]
Posted in Knitting, Tidbits, Uncategorized, tagged increase stitches, yarn over on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Increase stitches, sometimes written as inc in short in patterns, were harder to learn for me than decrease stitches. I didn’t quite understand how to knit all of them by just reading different instructions; I needed either videos or still pictures taken at the appropriate moments, especially for yarn over (YO). Here are again my own pictures [...]
