Lucy Neatby - Knitting Gems 1

Price: $31.90

Quantity:

Applied Edges
- Knitting-up stitches using a dpn
- Applying an I-cord edge
- Comparison of methods
- Going around an exterior bend
- Going around an interior bend
- Applying a Garter edge (A)
- Knitting from right needle to left
- Applying a Garter edge (B)

Buttonhole Essentials
- Regular v. one-row holes
- One-row self-reinforcing
- Eyelet
- Enlarged eyelet
- For a 2 x 2 rib (purl side)
- For a 2 x 2 rib (knit side)

I-Cord Basics
- Slipping or sliding?
- Why is I-cord circular?
- Range of sizes (2 - 5 stitch)
- Laddering-up larger tubes
- I-cord perfect graft

Cords, Braids and Bobbles Tube stitch
- Screw-thread I-cord
- Ribbed I-cord
- Purl I-cord (with beads)
- I-cord edged Garter stitch
- Twisted cord
- Bi-coloured I-cord
- Bi-coloured braid
- Balanced bobble: the increase
- Working right to left
- Bobble: balanced decrease
- Purl-faced bobble

Presenting the Picot Family
- Picot cast-on
- Varying picot lengths
- At the beginning of rows
- Mid-row (Lambstails)
- Bind-off

Twists, Kinks and Bias
- Winding a skein
- Reconditioning wool: Spritz
- Reconditioning wool: Washing
- Reconditioning wool: Steam
- Knitting kinky!
- Releasing twist
- Balanced / unbalanced yarns
- S and Z twists
- Testing for unbalanced yarn
- Biasing in a one-ply yarn
- Kinky needles
- Turbo needles
- Felting a bag