10 daily challenges to improve your lace knitting skills
As you might know, I'm a lace person. I love lace. I breathe lace. I'll knit anything in lace. And based on questions, comments, and letters I've…
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Knitting tension – how this simple trick can help you master your knitting
Let's talk about knitting tension today. As you may know there's a lot of talk about importance of tension and how you should be doing it. Well,…
Converting knitting charts into written instructions
It's very grey day today here on this small island. You know - the sleepy and bland one. Or as I love to say - "looking at…
5 lace knitting mistakes and how to avoid them
When I first started learning knitting lace I made all mistakes imaginable. I wanted to learn by myself you see. And there were no instruction books or…
Eyelet lace knitting – how and why
Yesterday, I realized that not everybody is familiar with the knitting pattern for eyelet lace. Yet, it's so simple and easy to do. So, today we're gonna…
Knitted box pleats tutorial
We have knitted pleats sideways before, but today we're going to knit boxed pleats. This is a more advanced thing, but not hard, once you get the…
Wrap and turn instructions
I used the wrap and turn knitting technique lately in my cabled baby hat pattern and I thought that maybe you would like to dig into it…
How to fold your knitting without sewing
Let's make a swatch (do not crumble, you know you'll need it) - cast on 13 stitches, knit 4 rows and 20 rows of stockinette stitch. This is…
Yarn over twice tutorial
This is a "yarn over twice" tutorial. I'll show you how to make two yarn over's in a row. It's easy :) "What is a yarn over…
Is it wrong to knit “nupps” together on next row?
Click here for UPDATED nupp post "Nupps" is an old Estonian lace knitting technique which is used to give texture to your lacework. Lately, I'm big on…