Topic
Patterns and techniques for needles and yarn, felted or not.
Knit an absurdly large wool bowl, shrink it by a third in a hot wash, and dry it over a form. The pattern, the arithmetic, and why the entrance is easier cut than knitted.
7 min read Intermediate
Long-tail for almost everything, knitted-on when you are learning, cable when the edge must be firm, backward loop when you need three stitches in the middle of a row.
4 min read Beginner
UK numbers run backwards, US numbers run forwards, and only the millimetre measurement means anything. A cheap needle gauge settles every argument in ten seconds.
3 min read
Speed comes from cutting motion, not from hurrying. The fastest knitters in the world move the yarn a few millimetres per stitch and never let go of the needle.
4 min read
Two complete patterns from one eleven-stitch leaf repeat — a straight scarf you can start tonight, and a top-down triangular shawl with a leaf border.
4 min read Intermediate
One eleven-stitch repeat, one right-side row to remember, and every wrong-side row purled. It makes columns of leaves — or, with four plain rows between, leaves scattered across the fabric.
4 min read Beginner
A knitted leaf is a triangle worked twice — increase to the widest point, decrease back to a tip. Twenty-one rows, three stitches to start, and it works in any yarn you have.
4 min read Beginner
