German Short Rows: easy and invisible!

My current project (a hooded cowl) ended up having a lot of shaping to get it to drape correctly and I ended up using German short rows to accomplish that. I thought I’d share this easy technique that eliminates the unsightly holes or odd stitches and invisibly blends into a stockinette fabric. Let’s get to … Continue reading German Short Rows: easy and invisible! →

Another Kind of Pick-up

I wrote previously about picking up stitches at the edges of a heel flap--a bugaboo for many knitters. The story there was to make a 1 stitch garter edge on both sides and then just pick up the purl "bumps". Easy-peasey! Problem solved! Well...for sock heel flaps, anyway. But what if you have some other … Continue reading Another Kind of Pick-up →