Category: Techniques

Today I have a video talking about mirroring increases and decreases. Basically, mirroring requires two things:  The increases or decreases are placed/located the same number of stitches from each edge. The increases or decreases are reflections, or mirror-images, of each other. So, a set of decreases would have an ssk on one side and a… Continue reading Mirroring Increases and Decreases

Today I have a video showing you some twisted decreases. These are used any time you want to maintain a line of twisted stitches - so in Bavarian twisted stitch work and similar. They can often be found in lace knitting as well.10 The key with these is that both stitches involved in the decrease… Continue reading Twisted Decreases

Today I have a video on several double decreases (worked on the RS). I cover the CDD (or S2KP) and the SK2P, as well as K3tog, and Sssk in the video below. CDD (or S2kp) - slip 2 sts as if to knit them together, knit the next st, then pass the slipped sts over.… Continue reading Double Decreases

Today, I have a tutorial on the German Twisted cast on, also known as the Old Norwegian cast on. This is a cast on in the long-tail cast on family - so you'll need a long tail and you'll have your yarn and hands in the "slingshot" position typical of the long-tail cast on. Here… Continue reading German Twisted Cast On

Today I want to show you Latvian Braids. These are very cool! They add a neat 3-D effect to your knitting and are usually worked in two (or more) colors. These are found in a lot of Scandinavian knitting - think Norwegian mittens.  They look complicated, but are really not that hard to work. They… Continue reading Latvian Braids

Today we'll be discussing make one increases! Make ones are often misunderstood. Many times, designers will use the term "make one" in their pattern and simply mean to "increase" and not any particular technique. OR, they'll use the term "make one" to mean a completely different increase method. (It helps to look at the abbreviations… Continue reading Make One Increases

Today we will talk about lifted increases! These are great when you want to mirror your increases, since there is a right-leaning and a left-leaning version of these. They are worked slightly differently depending on which way they lean - the premise is that you are using the stitch in the row below the one… Continue reading Lifted Increases

Last week I showed you right-leaning single decreases. This week I'll show you left-leaning single decreases! These are typically harder to look sized the same as the right-leaning decreases, since the stitches get manipulated a bit more and stretched. It helps to work these on the very tips of your needles, and to manipulate the… Continue reading Left-Leaning Decreases

This month I'm going to cover various decreases and increases in knitting! We'll start with the easiest of these, the right-leaning single decreases. These are the knit two together (k2tog) and the purl 2 together (p2tog). You simply knit (or purl) the next two stitches together as one - easy peasy! These tend to look… Continue reading Right-Leaning Decreases

Yarnovers are an essential stitch in knitting- in lace knitting especially. Yarnovers are made slightly differently depending on the surrounding stitches. And there are at least two ways to make each type of yarnover. Here is a video showing two methods for each combination of stitches - the "standard" method where the right leg of… Continue reading How to Work Yarnovers