Sanity saver trick of one designer’s trade
November 8, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under how to, quick tip, tutorial
I’ve been earning my living as a designer, fiber artist, writer, workshop presenter, and other wild and wonderful ways (professional puppeteer included) for more than 35 years. Over those decades, I have come up with some handy ways of organizing my work.
When I am working on a new book,
(like I am right now)
I have dozens of projects in the works all at once,
and each of the projects has heaps of iterations.
I make a project over
and over and over,
refining and honing it.
Lots of the versions will simply
get frogged as soon as I recognize
a problem and note what I
have to do to …read more
Quick tip: Keep your cables from flaring
December 17, 2008 by Del
Filed under how to, knitting, quick tip, yarn crafts
Here’s a quick tip to keep cabled projects from flaring out at your bound-off edge. It’s helpful for scarves, especially, because while your cast-on edge can be neat and square, sometimes the bind-off isn’t.
When you bind-off, decrease 1-2 stitches for every inch of width. So, if your project is 8 inches wide, decrease 8-16 stitches as you bind off. Try to do this at equal or close to equal intervals; just k2tog (knit 2 together) every now and then instead of just knitting one stitch, but perform the bind off the regular way. Instead of trying to bind off tightly to …read more
