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Ready, Set, CAST ON!

[Translate] All right then, hopefully by now you’ve decided on your yarn of choice for the knit along. Hopefully you’ve also done a swatch and have the gauge and know what needles you’re going to be using. Now it’s just a matter of knitting yourself a beautiful new fitted top. So before we get started, let’s do a very quick checklist … Spring/Summer 2011 Issue of Vogue Knitting International Appropriate yarn for the Fitted Top (pattern # 17 shown on page 60 with pattern on page 90) Needles required to attain gauge (20 stitches x 28 rows over 4″ […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

[Translate] Guess what day of the week it is? Yup, it’s Tuesday, which means tips! This week I have 6 bonafide knitting tips that will help you with your knitting, and 1 that will help you with people asking that stupid question we all hate. Wait for it, it will come. Jumping right into it, here are the tips. When knitting sleeves (or any two parts of a garment that are similar), you can knit them at the same time with two separate balls of yarn. Aside from finishing both sleeves literally one row after the other, you will […]

Braided Edgings …

[Translate] Any good piece of knitted fabric has to have a good edge. Whether it be knitted or crocheted, it the edge of the piece doesn’t look good, it doesn’t matter how good the main work is. Now that you know how to make a cabled braid any size you want (if you got the ebook that is), you might want to take a look at what to do on the outside  of one of the larger braids. Actually, it doesn’t even have to be one of the larger ones. If you are only making a scarf, say, you […]

A library at hand …

[Translate] With the internet what it is today, most people don’t see the need for a library at home. I’m not one of those people. I have a collection of favorite books that I’ve read over the years and I like to keep a copy of a few of them close at hand. While I’m not much of a fan of watching movies over and over (usually), I do like to re-read a good book from time to time. When it comes to knitting, I find it essential to have your books and magazines close at hand. Not only […]

Jamaican Pride at the Winter Olympics!

I have recently found out that Jamaica – my birth country – has a freestyle skier competing in the games. So I intend to design and knit a Jamaican Pride sweater for the Knitting Olympics to commemorate this fact.