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All About Yarn

Happy Monday! Hello and welcome to Knitting with Liz! If this is your first article feel free to follow and join our little knitting community and comment below with any projects you are completing! Let's talk yarn. Whether you're at a craft shop or your local walmart, walking down the yarn aisle can be intimidating. There are all sorts of colors that draw the eye, brands to learn, and inevitable price tags. All yarn can be organized using the following categories: Weight, Fiber, and Hue. Weight is the thickness of the yarn and can be identified while looking at the yarn. The bulkier the yarn the faster the project. The lighter the yarn, the more intricate the project can be. Fiber is what the yarn is made of. For example, yarn could be made of wool, cashmere, cotton, acrylic, and silk as well as other fibers. Finally, hue is the color of the yarn itself. When shopping I tend to gravitate toward bright, attractive colors in my favorite weight of yarn. Weight Weight is the thic...

Making a Pattern: How to Work the Stockinette Stitch

Good evening! Welcome to Knitting with Liz! This week instead of a pattern, I'm sharing a basic method to make shapes and patterns. I chose to make a heart (as seen below!) with some smaller yarn used previously to make a baby blanket. I started with the image below: The image above was a perfect base to develop the pattern because it represented the heart in smaller squares. I could translate each square into a knit stitch or purl stitch as needed and get the shape I was looking for. The stockinette stitch is made of rows alternating between knit and purl. This stitch is perfect for this sort of pattern because it makes a right side and wrong side, but both sides have a finished look. You end up having one side with a knit background and the other with a purl background. Once I had an image to base my pattern on, I used makeshift graph paper to draw my pattern and write out what stitches were needed for each row. My chart here: As you can see I wrote the ...

How to Knit a Ribbed Corner

Today's topic is blanket corners. I have been working on a blanket for a close friend. When I started the project I tried using circular knitting needles and wanted to create a ribbed look on all edges with a classic stockinette stitch in the center. I wanted to create my own pattern and actually drew it out on a piece of paper. I'll recreate the image of the top left corner below... If an X is a knit stitch and an O is a purl stitch then I figured the ribbing at the bottom of the blanket would look like this: Bottom Rib X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O and the ribbing on the side would look like this: Side Rib X X X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O O O X X X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O O O X X X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O O O X X X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O O O X X X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O O O So, ...

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