Lara Stone in Vogue UK January 2010, Gypsy Girl.

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Hey knitters,

First off, thank you all for your suggestions about making stockinette-looking earflaps lie flat! I've decided to try double knitting. I've been playing around with it for a few days and I like it, but I'd like to make the edges of it one color. I searched around a bit and the only thing I came up with was to start each row with "simple double knitting" (k1, s1) in the color I want the edge to be. Okay, using just the one color at the edge makes sense. But what about the ends of the rows - should I do the last two stitches in just the one color as well? And what's this s1 thing - I've just been knitting and purling, not slipping any stitches. Should I be?

So basically my question is: If you wanted to make a double knit project with the edges all one color, how would you do it?

Thanks so much!

Perhaps a stupidly simple question - I just found out that my dad wants a cowl like I made last year for him, only this time in brown. I don't have to have it done until New Year's, but I don't think that I'll have time to do what I did last year - buy "bare" superwash wool yarn from KnitPicks and dye it, then knit it up. I really like the way "Bare" holds up, though, and the fact that it is washable.

The nearest LYS I know about is about 40 minutes away, so that won't work right now. I do have a Joanns ETC nearby - does anyone know of any comparable washable wool brands at Joanns that will hold up? I'm worried I'll buy some brand I've never used and it will pill like crazy when washed.

I was weaving in ends and thought I would take some pictures of my favorite way to do it, and share.

Once I have woven through the backs of several stitches with a blunt needle, I like to separate the yarn into segments of 1-2 plies, and weave the remainder in with a sharp needle, splitting through stitches as I go. This really locks the tail down, and I usually can't figure out where the ends are.

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Hey knitting.

For Christmas (I know, I know) I'm knitting my dad a very basic top-down raglan sweater out of Malabrigo worsted. I wanted to add some elbow patches in a contrasting stitch to sort of dress it up a bit, 'cause it's so plain. If you were gonna do this, which stitch would you use for the patches? The rest of the sweater is stockinette.

Thanks!

Hey all, first time poster with a question!

What is the best increase method for making knit toys? The pattern I have just says "make 1," and when I use the standard M1 method it leaves this gaping hole that stuffing keeps coming out of! And I'm pulling it pretty tight! Is there a better way of doing this that I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

I've finished another Christmas present.  This time a cardigan, my first. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, although I'm not wild about the collar and how the buttons ended up being placed.  But I know the recipient will be happy with it. ( Cardigan )

Abbey Lee Kershaw in Muse #20.

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Do you think it's ok if I use cotton ease yarn instead of a wool/acrylic for this hat?

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rib-a-roni


I'm assuming it won't be as stretchy - should I increase the size a bit if I do use the cotton??
I'd use acrylic or wool but it's for a little boy going through chemo so I want something really soft for his bald head.

Thanks1

So it's taken me 4 months of knitting on and off between friend drama, a 16 unit semester and working weird hours, but I finished my overly colorful hat! ( Warning: Bright colors behind :D )

Isabeli Fontana in Vogue Homme Brazil December 2009, Flash Dance.

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It appears I am very out of date. Eldest daughter's boyfriend (late twenties) has requested a pair of gloves and/or hat for Christmas. In my Wisdom (not) I bought a small boatload of superwash wool for making gifts. Today I realized that it wouldn't matter, superwash or not with these here boyfriends, because laundry goes from the washer to the dryer and that's what the care instructions have to be. "Lay flat to dry" is a foreign concept.

So I have 2 colors of acrylic yarn: dark teal and off-white. I am told that the color is less important than any design on them: cables, snowflakes and skulls are right out of the picture, argyle might be okay, maybe anime could be fun.

I am at a total loss. If need be, I'll make plain old PLAIN gloves, but thought maybe y'all could suggest a pattern, or at least a design to spice it up a bit. I know he likes D&D and Avatar (The Last Airbender) but I don't know his interests beyond that.
Maybe a geometric design that is manly?

In my day "manly" was black. Or Steel gray. Period. Cables were okay if you were Irish. (teasing)

ETA: emmacrew to the rescue. I'm gone from here, hard at play...

I Was contentedly knitting away on my lunch when I realized I had dropped a stitch when I had completed the previous cable. I discovered this when I needed to complete the next cable and my stitches were off. One would think after 10 rows this would be discovered. FARGHHHHHHH!

I invoked the power of Lucy. I took a breath and dove in to fixing the cable......without ripping out the rest of the work! I then remembered I had my camera with me, so I started snapping photos of the fix. I dun doo'd it! I am so frikken pleased with myself right now. I trouble shot, I problem solved, I fixed and all is well in whoville. (If only life and/or people were this easy to fix) Go SEE my accomplishment - Eleventybajillion photos under the cut! (moments like these deserve to be recorded in detail)

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I made him myself.

I am a nerd. That is all.

Models' polaroids.

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Hi everyone! I have two FOs to share today, one a gift and one for me:

( Pembrokeshire Pathways ) ETA: sorry about the double LJ-cuts... somehow LJ screwed up the formatting on the cuts when I posted this. Just click one of the links and it will take you to the (nicely formatted) page with the pictures :-)

It just occurred to me that I have knit a LOT of projects that I have yet to share with all of you! I'll keep the comments brief, and won't waste space with ravelry links. You can search me on there as "shawnooke".
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I was asked for some advice recently and I wasn't sure what to tell the person, as I'm only an adventurous beginner, myself. Did any of you learn to crochet before learning to knit? Which knitting method do you currently use?

Do you think it'd be easier for a right-handed crocheter (hook in right, yarn in left) to learn continental, so that the yarn would be controlled with the left hand? I'm thinking it'd be less awkward than trying to learn to hold the yarn on the opposite side of what you'd be used to, but I don't know for certain. I'm hoping someone has some experience with this.

Thanks in advance!