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In my latest pattern, Midcoast Mitts, you will be working on DPNs (double pointed needles). Since the pattern is geared for beginner needles, I thought it would be helpful to have a…
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My mom recently sent me a baby sweater she had knit for my nephew (using my Little Coffee Bean pattern) because she wanted me to trouble shoot what went wrong. As you…
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One question that I’m often asked (as someone who does a lot of seamless knitting), is how to do a gauge swatch for knitting in the round. I’ll admit, many times in…
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After my first underarm divide blog post about how to do the underarm divide for top-down raglans, there were some additional questions about how to then pick up stitches for the sleeves…
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Because so many of my patterns are top-down raglans, I thought it would be beneficial to do a step-by-step tutorial for how to do the underarm divide. The underarm divide occurs when…