So How DO You Work an SSK?- A Tutorial
I am constantly amazed at how many ways people describe and work the left leaning decrease known as ssk. I am beginning to think every knitter has her own variation of it. Being the curious sort, I...
View ArticleDrop Spindle Spinning – Adventures in learning to spin
In which I prove that stubbornness is sometimes a useful trait I have been trying to learn to spin for years. Every year at Tour de Fleece time, I get the itch to learn drop spindle spinning. This...
View ArticleRound and Round – Unit Conversion and Its Impact on Knitting Gauge
Not long ago, I stumbled upon a discussion of unit conversion in knitting patterns. There was some concern that converting units from imperial to metric units introduced error in a pattern so it was...
View ArticleSeamless Garter Tab Cast-on (Without Tears)
One of the things I do regularly is scroll through knitting groups on social media to see what techniques or pattern wording knitters are struggling with. I then use this information to make my own...
View ArticleAnnotating your Stitchmastery Charts
Sometimes when designing, you want to separate design elements by a large block of repeated stitches. Unfortunately, that means that you need to count boxes in the grid to know where the next design...
View ArticleSouthern Exposure
This design began with Countess Ablaze’s lemons to lemonade story about the distorted idea some businesses have about the value of unpaid “exposure,” bless their hearts. When I saw that she was...
View ArticlePan-dimensional Surfboard
Everyone imagines being able to time travel but since we don’t have a clever blue box, what can we do? We can build our own pan-dimensional surfboard and ride the waves of the time vortex! Don’t have a...
View ArticleRibbon Candy
Those brightly colored, little twists of sugar appear every year around the holidays as if by magic. Part decoration and part sweet treat, it just doesn’t seem like Christmas without them. These socks...
View ArticleDanse des Dragée
Sugar Plum Dance Hat and Cowl Every year at holiday time, I make it a point to watch The Nutcracker. The parade of sweets is my favorite part, culminating in La Danse de la Fée- Dragée (the Dance of...
View ArticleSancho Proudfoot
Sancho is a mischievous little hobbit who refers to himself as Dread Highwayman Sancho Proudfoot. He was caught searching for Bilbo’s treasure and Frodo spends a lot of time getting him out of trouble....
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