Knitting Essentials 2 DVD
Lucy Neatby A Knitter's Companion

by Lucy Neatby
$28.95 CDN
$28.95 US
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From the publisher..... "Knitting Essentials 2 : 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
  
  
• More Bind-Off Methods: Modified conventional, knitwise; Modified conventional, purlwise and in rib ; Three needle in brief
  
  
• More Cast-On Methods: Provisional Crochet; Removing the provisional edge; Knitting down flat; Knitting into a crochet chain; Cast-off cast-on; The first row after a PCCO edge; Working in the round down from a provisional edge
  
  
• Circular Needles: Advantages and options; Casting on, joining the round and checking for twists; Starting the second round; Right or left hand yarn manipulation?; Two-hand training; Stranded knitting and working inverted; Simulation of circular knitting for gauge swatches
  
  
• Cutting Your Knitting: Unplanned cutting; Pre-planned cutting: Setting up a steek; Sewing the steek; Preparing to cut, blocking details; Cutting and joyously eliminating ends; Finishing the cut edge: knitting up stitches and neatening the raw edge
  
  
• More Finishing Basics: Shoulder seams and a finishing strategy including Three-needle bind-off in brief; Mattress stitch for side seams; Refinements; Adding more sewing yarn; Adjusting mis-matched edges; Preplanning for finishing; Darning in ends to seam and avoiding premature finishing; Why not slip your selvage stitches?; Mattress stitching stranded fabrics; Knitting up new stitches; Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops using waste yarn; Sleeve tops - setting stitches to rows using waste yarn at the top of the sleeve; Sleeve tops - setting stitches to rows with a bound-off sleeve edge
  
  
• Grafting: Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops using waste yarn; Grafting diagram to explain the ½ stitch joggle; Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops with a vertical stripe; Comparison of Grafting and three needle; Grafting toes (Kitchener stitch): Make the sock toe chimney; Grafting toes (Kitchener stitch): using the sock toe chimney; Neatening tails in a sock Toe Chimney
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Coil-less pins; Yarn butterflies; Wraps per inch W.P.I.; Running Yarn Markers / Knitting in the round on dpns; Slip knot; Threading a darning needle; The Contented stitch; Hill stitches and valley loops
  
  
• Garment Gallery

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