Category: Knitting With Needles
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How-To’s Day: How to Steek Fearlessly!
Steeking is when you knit the body of a sweater in a tube, and then reinforce and cut open where the armholes (and quite often the neck). I just finished a test knit that involved steeking and really it is not as scary as it sounds! In fact I think the steeking was the easy part!…
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Random events in the last 72 hours..
-Nellie Olson flew over my house.* -Caleb tried to burn the house down make his own popcorn. -The internet went out again. -I had to open up Jaxom’s computer and do minor surgery to get it running. -The dog ran off on me in the rain.. -The dog was really only hiding somewhere dry while…
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What have you Knit?
I love this little meme! I found it via Eve. Mark with bold the things you have knit (or are knitting), with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest. Afghan I-cord Garter stitch Knitting with metal wire Shawl Stockinette stitch Socks: top-down Socks: toe-up Knitting with camel yarn Mittens: Cuff-up Mittens:…