N the Know: What is ikat weaving?
UNL textiles professor Wendy Weiss discusses her research into Indian weaving techniques.
fiber spinning Knitting With Dog Hair: Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know and Love Than From A Sheep You’ll Never Meet
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-How to make Afghan or a beret from your Beagle: you pet can yield yarn
-How to collect, clean, and store your pooch’s fur
-How to modify your patterns to accommodate pet-spun yarn
-How to find experienced pet hair spinners, a guide to resources and suppliers
From mittens from a Malamute to caps from a Collie, this illustrated guide is the creative answer to that vexing shedding problem. This fetching book is certain to be this year’s best in show!
Unusual Knitting
Some unusual knitting, kid’s fiber book, scrap mobius and knit a hat!
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Unusual Knitting
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The following video really caught my eye this week… it’s a demonstration of the “Unusual Knitting Technique.” This video comes complete with knitting charts and written instructions, and it is also very easy to follow. It is being demonstrated in a class setting, so you get both the demonstration and lots of questions from the people learning the technique.
It’s very…. well, what can I say but: unusual
- Click here for the Unusual Knitting Technique
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Scrap Infinity Scarf
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This is actually a crochet video; which will be perfect for those who enjoy knitting and crocheting. If you don’t crochet, it’s still great to watch because the most important things about it (I think) are the colors and joining of yarns.
This video gave me some great ideas:
- Why not join lots of scrap yarn when knitting mobius scarf and ignore those ends! Just tie a secure knot, keep knitting and let the ends float around, making it look like designer yarn. It would look cool if there were lots of joins, and the ends were trimmed evenly.
- Even better, do the idea above, but be knitting with two strands. Randomly do the tie-join on the strands. You could end up with amazing colors… and not only that, use up lots of scrap yarn.
- Or… why not take an old t-shirt (that has some crazy colorful design on it) start at the bottom and cut it into a long strand spiraling up the body. And then use that to knit a mobius scarf. It’ll be the best variegated yarn ever.
You may very well come up with your own ideas watching this video. And, oh yea. It has a cute kitty who wants to attack the yarn!
- Click here for: Scrap Infinity Scarf Collars
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How to Knit a Hat
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This next video is a bit more normal and boring, but extremely useful. Hats are one of the top knitted items, and it’s great to learn how to whip them out in all their variety of shapes and colors. This is a nice video from our friends at KnitPicks. They will show you the basics and even experienced knitters are sure to pick up a few tips.
- Click here for: How to Knit a Hat
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Kids Fiber Book
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And look here! A children’s book that features fiber!! “Charlie Needs a Cloak” follows a shepherd as he shears his sheep, spins, weaves and dyes his fabric, and turns it into a cloak.
Finally we can get our kids (and grandkids) starting on their love of fiber early. Then they will understand what it is that Mama is sitting there doing!
- Click here for: Charlie Needs a Cloak
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Enough for today
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In keeping with my promise of short newsletters as spring captures us into the outside world… that’s enough for today.
Happy knitting everyone, and a wonderful spring week to you.
Sincerely,
Connie Delaney
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knitting pattern Demonstration of the Unusual Knitting Technique, Part 2
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I found this patter in my old Russian knitting book and I love it. It is very unusual technically and visually. The mistake on the chart was fixed before I put it on Flickr. The chart you can see here: farm4.static.flickr.com
How To Crochet Scrap Infinity Scarf Collars
For the free pattern you can get it here. thecrochetcrowd.com There is a video link there to show you how to start the scarves. That tutorial shows you the basics, follow the written directions to make this identical one. You can use this Bernat Jessie Yarn or even make your own from your scrap bin.
How to Knit a Hat
In this video, we’ll show you how to knit a hat using a fixed circular needle and bulky weight yarn.
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Look! a kids book on spinning and weaving!
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A shepherd shears his sheep, cards and spins the wool, weaves and dyes the cloth, and sews a beautiful new red cloak.
Time to get stuff done!
Exploring binding off and finishing.
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Binding Off
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We are starting up with binding off!
One of the most important things (if you want to be a prolific creator) is to actually get to the end of projects and finish them off. That sounds so very simple, but sometimes it is very difficult to do. I always seem to get interrupted by something or other. And I find that once I put a project down it is very difficult to pick up again. It’s a memory problem, for sure. I usually can’t remember exactly what I was doing, and have to rethink the whole project again.
So the big secret to knitting is to find a way to get to the end. To that “end” we are featuring two videos on binding off. It’s not the complete end to a project, but you gotta get the knitting off those needles!
Oh yea, and it’s nice to do that bind-off correctly. It is very critical, for a nice finished edge that the bind-off not be too tight.
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Navajo Weaving
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Not for everyone, but here is a sweet book on Navajo weaving. Not gonna push it, but I always like to honor, respect and learn from fiber artists who have come before us. They always deserve a look and a link.
- Click here for Navajo Weaving Way
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Welcome Spring!
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Enough for now! You are probably busy anyway finishing up all those projects so you can get out in the great spring weather… or maybe finishing up all those projects on a rainy day waiting for the sun to come back!
Happy knitting,
Connie Delaney
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How to Knit – Binding Off
This video will show you how to bind off your knitting project. Follow along and see how easy it is to actually do! Anyone can learn to knit and it’s a great craft to know if you want to give handmade gifts! Question: What if you were doing a rib knit? or a seed stitch? Or a stockinette stitch? How would you bind that off? Answer: I continue to knit the stitches just as I would have if I were knitting another row. I simply bind them off (slip one over the other, as described in this video) rather than keep them on the needle. To view the full article on how to bind off, click here: cyberseams.com To learn more, visit us at Cyberseams.com!
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The Bind Off — How to Finish your Knitting
Finishing your knitting is one of the most important details, and can really help make the look of your project. This video shows one of the most important finishing details, how to bind off your stitches. For free knitting patterns and knitting commentary, visit www.chemknits.com
Cables and Lace!
How to knit cables, Hearts Lace stitch, and joining a ball of yarn.
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Spring Knitting
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It’s been my experience that many knitters are also gardners and love the outdoors (hence the need for lots of hats and scarves). So it would not surprise me if you are finding less time for knitting these days, and are being captured by those occasional perfect sunny days.
As knitting season winds down, and summer opens up, this news letter will, likely, become a bit sporadic in schedule. In fact, that has already happened as I missed last Tuesday! As the Christmas and fall knitting bug starts to hit later in the season we’ll gear up again to be faithfully sent on Tuesday mornings.
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Joining Yarn
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Of course I’ve joined a million balls of yarn in my time. But I always enjoy watching how someone else does it. The questions is: Is there really a right way?
Most of the time I leave a long end, so that I have something to work in so that the ends can never ravel out. Sometimes, though, I’m knitting along with some store-bought yarn and find that they just joined it with a little knot with the ends clipped short. Heck… if they do that, why can’t I?
Most of the time I tie a knot with my old ball and new, because it gives extra security. But sometimes I an knitting something that is fine, and the knot will be in a visible place. Then I knit the two yarns together for a few stitches, leaving a smooth join.
In this issue we are featuring a video from Knitpicks using the “knitting in” method . She shows how to join by knitting the strands together. The nice thing about this method is that you don’t have to work the ends in later, just clip them off when convenient.
- Click here for: Joining a new ball of Yarn – Knitting In
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Heart Lace
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Nadelspiel.com brings us a video on how to knit “Hearts Lace Stitch.” It looks very complicated and makes a nice lace with little hearts, but it is really quite simple.
- Click here for: Hearts Lace Stitch
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Knitting Cables
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We have a very simple video by Fayme Harper demonstrating how to make a cable stitch. She shows a basic 6 stitch cable… with some beautiful tan yarn!
- Click here for: How to knit Cables
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Back to Work
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And it’s back to work for me! So much to get done.
By the way… did I mention that one of my many jobs is doing tech support for a guy who puts out a computer “How to” newsletter and website: Ask Leo! You can ask Leo questions about your computer and tech problems, and he gives great answers. He also has a newsletter that is published weekly: get it here: Ask Leo Newsletter.
As always, happy spring and happy knitting!
Connie Delaney
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