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Six Steps to Sock Success & Playful Pairs Pattern

Six Steps to Sock Success & Playful Pairs Pattern
from Knitter’s K90 Color Outside the Lines

Crochet 4 Lefties

Learn how to crochet left handed

Knitter's Magazine (K88) Fall 2007
Copyright 2007 XRX, Inc.

Designing in 45 degrees

Turning vertical or sideways garments into bias sweaters

Knitter's Magazine (K22) Spring '91 Lily Chin references Susanna's article in On Designing: Directional Knitting in the Spring 2000 (K58) issue of Knitter's. Read Susanna's advice on turning vertical or sideways garments into bias sweaters. It's easier than it looks!

Preparing Graphs From Photos With Adobe Photoshop

David Xenakis brings you an easy way to prepare charts from photos using Photoshop.

We've all tried making charts one time or another: a flower, a pet, a child may have been the object of your filling-in-the-squares exercise in, often, frustration. No more! Now XRX Inc. resident photoshop guru (and world class author/teacher/consultant) David Xenakis shares his photoshop secrets. His shareware PDF "Preparing Graphs from Photographs using Adobe Photoshop" demonstrates the sharing with our close-knit family by XRX Inc.

Grafting Illustrations

for Kathleen Carty and Betty Salpekar squares

Grafting illustrations for the Betty Salpeckar square from Knitter's Issue 63 and the Kathleen Carty square from Knitter's Issue 62.

Tubular Edge

The Tubular Edge Acrobat file gives complete directions for attaching a tubular edge to a piece of knitting as you work.

Clarification on this edging method
Although the drawing and the instructions seem to make this look as if it is a short-row technique, it really is not. If you'll look at the drawing you'll see that working the front and then the back of the tube on the first two passes is simply a continuation of the row across the center fabric. The third set of stitches (working across the front of the tube a second time) is actually the beginning of the next row. When you work across the back of the tube again you continue this row. Then when you work across the center fabric, you continue it further. This is confusing from the drawing, but with respect to the *complete* rows, the selvedge of the knitting is the inner edge of each double-knitted tube. I hope this is clear.