just knitting a handy guide for all hand knitters!
Knit pix
Here’s a photo I wanted to share! It’s of the ‘knitted bike’ often seen around my home town of Whitstable.
If you have any Knit Pix, please email them to:
jollyfineknits@hotmail.com
Here’s a photo I wanted to share! It’s of the ‘knitted bike’ often seen around my home town of Whitstable.
If you have any Knit Pix, please email them to:
jollyfineknits@hotmail.com
Knitting accessories
As well as needles and yarn you’ll soon find that you need a few more bits and bobs for your knitting:
Stitch holder:
Like a giant safety pin, it’s for safely holding some of your stitches while you work on only one section of your knitting - for example, when you are knitting one shoulder piece of a ‘front’ at a time. If you have only have a few stitches to ‘hold’ - like for a border - you can use an ordinary safety pin.
Cable needle:
A short, double-pointed needle. Cabling is really easy (see stitches). To cable four back (CB4), just slide the next couple of stitches on to your cable needle and hold that behind your work while you knit the next 2 stitches in the normal way. Then knit the 2 from the cable needle et voila! You may need a few, in varying thicknesses like ordinary needles.
Row counter (sometimes called row tally):
NOTHING more annoying than losing count if your pattern says something like ‘knit 24 rows’. You are bound to be interrupted and unsure of where you had got to!
Best invest in a small plastic counter which slides on to the end of a needle - push it right up near the ‘knob’. They come in a couple of sizes - to fit on thin and thick needles.
As well as needles and yarn you’ll soon find that you need a few more bits and bobs for your knitting:
Stitch holder:
Like a giant safety pin, it’s for safely holding some of your stitches while you work on only one section of your knitting - for example, when you are knitting one shoulder piece of a ‘front’ at a time. If you have only have a few stitches to ‘hold’ - like for a border - you can use an ordinary safety pin.
Cable needle:
A short, double-pointed needle. Cabling is really easy (see stitches). To cable four back (CB4), just slide the next couple of stitches on to your cable needle and hold that behind your work while you knit the next 2 stitches in the normal way. Then knit the 2 from the cable needle et voila! You may need a few, in varying thicknesses like ordinary needles.
Row counter (sometimes called row tally):
NOTHING more annoying than losing count if your pattern says something like ‘knit 24 rows’. You are bound to be interrupted and unsure of where you had got to!
Best invest in a small plastic counter which slides on to the end of a needle - push it right up near the ‘knob’. They come in a couple of sizes - to fit on thin and thick needles.