Knitting Tips and Tricks from Dayana Knits

Here are links to posts that contain special techniques:

GENERAL

• Beading with a crochet hook
• Blocking without wires
• Blocking with flexible blocking wires
• Blocking acrylic
• Converting a bottom up sleeve construction to top down
• Intarsia tips
• Kitchener stitch
• Picking up stitches evenly
• Sewing a pillow together
• Top-down sleeves using picked up stitches and short rows
• Using short rows to turn corners on borders
• Zippers on knits
• Convert a bottom-up yoke sweater body to top-down from the yoke

STITCHES

• M1 increase in two rows (to keep even tension)
• Nupps vs. Bobbles
• Tubular cast-off using Kitchener stitch
• Tuck stitches
• Faux cable made with slipped stitches

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IN-THE-ROUND

• Tidying up that annoying purl short row wrap when you return to kntting in-the-round
• Un-jogging in the round for 1 row of color
• Un-jogging in-the-round with false seams

CUTTING // PASTING // FIXING

• Cutting knitted seams to fit
• Gathering a knit hem
• Knitting calculations to use with shrinking Denim yarn
• Replacing an earflap
• Steeking
• Weaving in easily unraveled chainette yarn
• Avoiding flared corners in a cushion cover
• Using photo editing software to change a colorwork design
• Stabilizing a toy so it can stand up

MACHINE KNITTING

• What to do when you first get a machine
• Combining hand knitting and machine knitting: Yoke sweaters

WHIMSICAL

• Homemade fur pom-pom
• Planned Pooling