Lucy Neatby A Knitter's Companion
by Lucy Neatby
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From the publisher.....
"The skills and techniques that no curious knitter should leave home without (fully indexed so that you can easily find the technique you need). The 'Essentials' series will eventually be further developed, delving into ever more exotic (nay, arcane even) areas, building on the previous material.
- Introduction
- Bind-Off Methods:
Temporary;
Regular;
Regular method using a crochet hook;
The last stitch conundrum!;
Regular for rib;
Three-needle;
Three-needle to match vertical columns;
Modified Conventional (knitwise)
- Cast-On Methods:
Loop;
Long-Tail / Continental with two hands;
Adusting the width of your cast-on edge;
Adjusting the tension of your cast-on stitches;
Looking after your tail yarn;
Long-Tail / Continental one-handed;
Long-Tail variation for an extra strong elastic edge;
Long-Tail used as a provisional edge;
Knitted;
Cable
- Decreases:
Right-slanting (k2t) - ref Reading the knitting;
Left-slanting (ssk);
Ssk versus s1-kw-psso;
Left-slanting (ssk) variations;
Fully-fashioned decreases for easy seaming;
Double decreases; three stitches become one (S2t kw-k1-psso), s1kw-k2t-psso;
Kindness to stitches outside the decreases;
A comparison of decreases both focussed and scattered;
Reading Decreases
- Finishing Basics:
Tidying up the junk;
Mattress Stitch basics;
Knitting (picking) up new stitches;
Three-needle Bind off for shoulders;
- Gauge Matters:
The three ways to change your stitch size:
Needle size;
Yarn size;
Number of stitches
- Increases:
Right slanting increase - a subtle right-leaning increase;
Left slanting increase - a subtle left-leaning increase;
Make 1, and make 1 with a twist;
Reading your increases
- Useful Miscellanea:
Coil-less pins;
Yarn butterflies;
Running Yarn marker / Knitting in the round on dpns;
Slip knot;
Setting up a swift;
Ball winder and centre-pull balls;
Threading a needle from the extracted section of ends at edges;
Comparison of right and left-hand yarn manipulation;
Purling manipulating the yarn with the left hand
- Odds and Knitting Ends:
Knitting in a tail;
Tail neatening whilst purling;
The balancing act!;
Ends in the round and darning needle skills;
Ends at the edges of a Mattress stitch seam;
Splicing and spit splicing;
Cheering up unhappy stitches by diagonal darning;
Diagram of unhappy stitches
- Rescue Remedies:
Laddering back knits and purls;
Ripping back wholesale;
Ripping back slowly
- The Secrets of Contented Stitches:
The Contented stitch;
Hills stitches and valley loops;
Balancing stitches;
The facts of life; how stitches are made;
Stitch mount and the significance of the direction of throwing the yarn around the needle;
Factors in controlling stitch size: tension and angle;
Stitch abuse and the unhappy edge stitches;
Slipping stitches and stitch mount;
Twisted stitches;
Reading the knitting
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