In my quest to knit the perfect sock heel on a knitting machine, I stumbled on Cat Bordhi’s Sweet Tomato Heel. If you aren’t familiar with this type of heel or you’re simply interested in learning how to do this on your knitting machine, I’d suggest watching Cat’s video first. Even if you don’t know […]
I used to hate the Brother combs, but now that I’ve gotten used to it I wish they made one for the mid-gauge machines. Since they don’t — and probably never will — I decided to buy a new one for my Brother SK860 standard and hack the old one to fit the Silver Reed SK860 mid-gauge.[…]
One of the questions that comes up a lot on Ravelry is “I have a cone of yarn that weighs this much… is it enough to make a sweater?”[…]
First, you need to figure out where the increases go. Suppose you have 98 needles in work and the pattern says increase 13 stitches evenly across the row.
Compute the approximate placement of the decreases using the following formula:
(current # stitches – # to increase) / # to increase
(98 – 13) / 13
85 / 13
6.53 rounded down = 6
Perfection is not when nothing more can be added, but when nothing more can be taken away.
-- Antoine de St. Exupery
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