Techniques & Tutorials

Techniques

• Provisional cast-ons
• Cabling without a Cable Needle
• Corrugated Ribbing
• Lifted Increases
• Sewn Hems
• Picot Hems without a Provisional CO
• Japanese Knitting Links
• Mattress Stitch
• Applied I cord (Google search)
• Grafting / Kitchener Stitch
• Ribbed Cable Cast On (Google search: I recommend the Brooklyn Tweed technique)

Tutorials

• Diagram for picking up the stitches along the saddle straps
• Diagram for picking up stitches around the armholes and subsequent short rows
• Calculating row gauge and using that for your toe (or mitten thumb or end of mitten)
• Liidia’s Two Color Cast On
• Single Color Vikkel Braids
• Two Color Vikkel Braids

Links for Designers

• Marnie’s fabulous Excel tutorials:  here, here, and here
• Kristen Tendyke’s calculating yarn req’ts
• More than you probably want to know about sleeves caps:  Jenna Wilson’s Knitty article
• And the calculator for sleeve caps
• Lucia the Knitting Fiend has a great selection of calculators.
• Handy top down heel flap types & numbers.
• Elizabeth Green Musselman of Dark Matter Knits discusses “what designers can learn from working in a yarn store” parts 1 & 2.
• Hand sizes from Fiber Dreams.
• Hat sizes from Tot Toppers.
• Want more?  visit the resources page for the Budding Designers group on Ravelry