Tips 'n Tricks

Do you have a helpful hint or handy trick that will make any aspect of knitting easier? Share it! Post ideas on scrap yarn usages, stitch markers, color changing, maintaining your sanity while following a difficult pattern, etc. There is most probably someone out there that will benefit from your help. Need ideas yourself? Read others' comments--we all live and learn!

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Name: Sue
Subject: Allison's comment
Comment: I tried that (holding the left hand needle straight) but i kept dropping stitches and it looked weird.

Name: Alison Hiscock
Subject: Re: Sue's Comment
Comment: Regarding Sue's suggestion to hold the left needle vertically in your lap, I do this with the right needle. I usually sit cross-legged on the sofa or floor when I knit, and I wedge the right needle against my leg and hold it there while I knit. Does anyone else do this? I knit quite fast, and at normal tension, but my mother says it looks weird.

Name: Sue
Subject: holding needles
Comment: hold the left needle in your lap vertically. This takes some of the strain off your wrists and you can knit faster.

Name: jayne
Subject: speed knitting
Comment: When knitting on straight needles, tuck the end of the right hand needle under your arm, it facilitates a much faster pace.

Name: Mary mc connell
Subject: Having a nice edge.
Comment: Always slip the first stitch on your knitting, when it is time to put your garment together, pick up those loops, it makes a neat seam

Name: Sue
Subject: Storing Yarn
Comment: to store yarn, put it in plastic baggies and then put it in a pillowcase. You'll never see it, and it will decorate your house too.

Name: Elyssa
Subject: For all you free-formers
Comment: If you are free-forming, always try to sketch out what you want to make on paper, and as you knit, refer to it.

Name: Elyssa
Subject: Felting
Comment: Always try to put your felting in a sock or cover so it doesn't ruin your washing machine.

Name: Amy
Subject: Counting rows
Comment: I bought one of these for counting my rows and I dont know how I managed without it.

http://play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/1022794/Totty_Counter/Product.html

Name: becca
Subject: circular needle
Comment: if your knitting with a circular needle and the wire is too long pull some of the wire through one of the stiches and do this throughout the project

Name: J
Subject: Tips
Comment: 1. My hair falls out easily, and so to protect my yarn from getting any hair in it while I knit, I enclose the yarn ball in a plastic ziplock bag and poke a hole in it with my knitting needle and string the yarn through that.
2. To keep my patterns looking nice I enclose them in sheet protectors, and then the patterns I am working on I take out of my 3-ring binder and place in a cheap folder that has the three-hole prongs in it.

Name: Tina
Subject: Yarn
Comment: To stop your knitting from slipping off the needles when work is put away I just roll a small quantity of 'blue tac' into a tiny ball and press onto the end of the needle.

Happy knitting

Name: Natalie
Subject: i use scrap pieces of yarn and put one next to me everytime i finish a row. after i am finished i count the scraps of yarn.
Comment: i use scrap pieces of yarn and put one next to me everytime i finish a row. after i am finished i count the scraps of yarn.

Name: Mary
Subject: Keeping track of pattern rows
Comment: When knitting a complicated pattern, I write each row on a 3 x 5 card, punch holes in the top, one at each end, and put round key chains through the holes. As I do each row, I flip the row over and keep track of the pattern that way.

Name: Lindsay
Subject: Scissors
Comment: I have a pair of small scissors for my yarn crafts. They are always opening and I am scared that they will accidentally cut my work. I discovered that if you put a knitting needle point protecter on the end of the scissors, it prevents such things from happening. It also prevents the sharp ends from poking holes in my bag!

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