Posts Tagged ‘swatching’

October 19th, 2009
Yarntasting Guide: Multistranding
by
artfibers team

Multistranding combines two or more strands in each stitch, as you create a knit or crocheted fabric.  The technique is also called carrying along, since the multiple strands are held together and worked as one.  You can think of the resulting fabric as a kind of tweed, but much less regular in pattern than the [...]

September 30th, 2009
Happy Hour in Brooklyn
by
nyle

Of course there are many knitters in Brooklyn, some quite famous, but we have to admire one very special group — the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill knitters.  What we hear out on the West Coast is that they stormed Moe’s Bar last Sunday like pirates of the Caribbean, teaching friend and foe alike the true meaning [...]