Month: December 2017

Here it is, the 24th door, with a long, somewhat complicated video that you can watch at your leisure during the holidays: There are several variations of casting on stitches for doubleface. A particularly nice variant is the Italian cast-on, which creates a completely invisible edge. However, this is also very tedious for very, very long cast-on edges. A practical variant is the provisional cast-on.

If this is worked conventionally, it is not easy to continue, so I will show you a way to work two temporary stops, one per side.

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This is the last door of the Maschenfeinen video advent calendar and I would like to thank you very, very much for your insanely positive feedback and the many lovely messages to the videos daily! Have a wonderful Christmas today and a few nice quiet days with a little (a lot :)) Knitting time!

The Italian stitch stop in rounds was one of the most expressed wishes from you! And today it comes, of course, too. And in case you don't have time to watch it now: All videos will of course remain online in my Youtube channel. So you can watch them sometime if you want.

If you want to work this cast on in rounds, I recommend starting with a needle set. Because working the beginning loops on the circular needle is a bit tedious. With many stitches even terribly tedious (I think). So start with the double pointed needles and then switch to a circular needle.

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A very common question when knitting color stripes is: Do I need to cut the yarn at the end of each color?

The answer is: NO! In no case, even if you knit wider color stripes, you can simply bring up the unused thread at the edge. You just have to take care of anchoring the thread, so that later large loops do not get stuck.

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One of the challenges of knitting in doubleface technique is "nice edge stitches", because the edge stitches also serve to hold the front and back together.

A variation is a kind of warp edge, where the stitches are lifted off at the end of each row, taking care to cross the threads. The result is a loose edge that blends beautifully into the knitted pattern.

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There are different methods to work short rows. Behind the 16th door I had shown you the method of "German Short Rows", where the shortening is knitted by working a double stitch.

The method of winding stitch is at least as simple. This avoids the "hole" that would normally occur when turning by wrapping the working yarn around the nearest stitch before knitting back the row.

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Now and then it happens that we notice a flaw in the knit a few rows down. Of course, this is difficult to ignore, because once noticed, it permanently stings the eye. However, the correction is also very easy. This is because long rounds and rows do not have to be unraveled at all.

Instead, we simply drop the stitch above the mistake down the appropriate distance and crochet it back up step by step.

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On Instagram I have shown a few days ago a very simple three-knitted shawl for the little miss, which I have knitted predominantly garter stitch. Some places I have knitted smooth in the form of hearts and these then later embroidered with a contrasting thread.

With the help of the stitch, you can easily incorporate different colored motifs into a knitted piece without having to work in multiple threads or use the intarsia technique. Small errors in the knitted piece or even holes (!) can also be easily repaired in this way.

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If you knit for a while, sooner or later you will also come across projects where it can be useful to knit in an auxiliary thread, which you then unravel again in order to continue working at the corresponding point.

Here, a different colored thread is knitted in so that the stitches from the work can be easily detached later.

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Short rows are a great thing for shaping knits. They are not only very popular in sweater pattern to optimize the shoulder fit, for example. They are also used in other pieces as well as in some of my shawls.

Short rows can be worked in different ways. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages, I mainly use the "German Short Rows", i.e. the method with the turn stitch as a double stitch.

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The stitch is called "stitch stitch" because it imitates the knitting pattern of a right-hand stitch. This makes it ideal for joining edges that should not be recognizable as such later.

The stitch can be performed on both open and closed edges.

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