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Tech Square Afghan

Build your knitting skills one square at a time. This project will take place over the entire year of 2011 as a “Block of the Month” (BOM) program. Each month we will focus on a particular block following the schedule below. You can tackle the entire 12 block blanket, or pick and choose which squares [...]

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Technique Tuesday: Seams Pressing

You’re a quilter. You’re making a lovely quilt block, but when you’re finished, the blocks seems… well, lumpy. This sounds like a pressing issue, and that’s pressing as in using the iron. Let’s start with a simple four patch block. This block is made of two (2) squares of a light color fabric and two [...]

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Technique Tuesday: A Suggestion is Just That

Almost every knitting (and crochet, for that matter) pattern has the following line: US X needle or [and this is the important part] size to obtain gauge. See, the needle size in the pattern is a suggestion. It’s probably the needle size that the designer used to get gauge. The designer may be a tight [...]

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Tuesday Techniques: Gauging a Weighty Issue

At some point in your knitting, gauge becomes important. It might not have factored in at all when you were in the scarf stage (if it goes around your neck, then great!), but when you enter the world of garment knitting, gauge becomes crucial. Way back when, yarn came in just a few weights (which [...]

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