The final touch that transforms mere knitting into heirloom masterpieces
Finesse Your Knitting 1
Contents:
Tubular Bind-Off Methods
- Preparation of a 1 x 1 rib
- Sewing the 1 x 1 rib
- Preparation of a 2 x 2 rib
Grafting: Stitches Top to Top
- Joining Stocking stitch
- Neatening tails from grafting
- Grafting diagram showing joggle
- Joining vertical stripes
- Joining uneven numbers of stitches
- Uneven number join diagram
Perfect Grafting: Stitches Top to Bottom
- Perfect graft diagram
- Preparation for a perfect graft
- Joining Stocking stitch
- Preparation for joining a ribbed fabric
- Joining a ribbed fabric
- Joining stripes
- Sewing-in the second stripe colour
- Removing the waste yarn
- Emergency shortening (without waste yarn)
- Emergency adjustments (with waste yarn)
- I-cord graft
- Sideways sock cuff (explanation)
- Sideways sock cuff (preparation)
- Joining the cuff
The Afterthought Pocket
- Grafting the lining to the garment
- Opening the fabric
- Finishing the pocket
The Magic Buttonhole
- Setting in the waste yarn
- Setting in waste yarn for the second side
- Sewing the buttonhole
- Checking the exterior
- Sewing the second side
- Removing the waste yarn
- Finishing
The Secrets of Contented Stitches
- The Contented Stitch
- Hills stitches and valley loops
Finesse Your Knitting 2
Sublime finishing details for the connoisseur. Expert shoulder shapings and various joins, setting-in fitted sleeve heads with ease. Experience the exquisite joys of double bands: knitting up the stitches (right first time every time), equalizing the two sides, adding shaping to the corners of the bands, reversing for the inner layer and how these principles may be applied to neck and armband situations.
Contents:
Ship Shape Shoulders
- Short rows by Japanese and wrapped methods
- Grafting over a bound-off edge
- Three-needle bind-off for garter stitch
- Short rows within intarsia
- Afterthought shoulder shaping
- Examples of afterthought shoulders
Fitted Sleeve Heads
- Setting in a fitted sleeve head - example
- Phoney knitting
- Crossing the shoulder line
- Other uses of phoney knitting
Double Stocking Stitch Bands
- Why use double bands?
- Knit-up ratios
- Equalizing the numbers
- Knit-up ratios for garter stitch
- Sampling the bands
- Knitting-up the bands
- Equalizing the two sides
- What's special about the corner stitches
- Looking at the corner stitches
- Working a right-side row and RSI
- The second right-side row
- The third right-side row
- Turning rows
- Reversing the shaping and K2t
- Matching the second side
- Buttonhole placement
- Bind-off details
- Finishing the band - catch stitching
- Finishing the band - grafting
- Working a right-side row and LSI
- Reversing the shaping ans ssk
- Closing the lower band edge
- Reading your chart
Neck and Armbands
- Neckband Diagram and Sample
- Remedy for a missing stitch
- Neck with fully fashioned shapings
- Armhole modifications