Tag: techniques
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Crochet Cast On
This is the first of two posts on the Aeolian top pattern highlighting techniques you may not have used before. Our Aeolian top is ideal when summer days are not as warm as they should be, it’s also easy to throw on in the evenings as the weather cools. Aeolian is knit in Ainsworth &
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Modified Three Needle Bind Off
Aeolian Top This is the second of two tutorials for the Aeolian top. To mirror the chain edge created by the Crochet Cast-On we used a Modified 3-Needle Bind-Off at the side seams. This eliminates the purl bumps and gives a very flat chain edge. It involves a cat’s cradle of yarn and a bit
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Closed-Loop Cables – Increasing and Decreasing
I’ve always enjoyed knitting cables, I find them more intuitive than lace where I can get horribly lost, but when I designed the Heart’s End Hat pattern and Miss Havisham Mittens closed-loop cables were new to me. With closed-loop you can use a stand alone motif rather than an all over pattern, just enough to
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Pink
There has been a bit of a pink theme this month. Having eaten my way through a lot of avocados lately I saved the stones and skins for dyeing. I froze the peel and stones separately, scrubbing them clean and chopping them up before they went into the freezer. In total I had 365g of
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Cornus Midwinter Fire
The Cornus needed pruning and a quick Google search says that Dogwoods give a blue dye.
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Natural dyeing with Eucalyptus bark
Before I played with wool I grew plants for a living, there were a lot of hardy exotics in my life and I still occasionally spend the odd morning at the nursery talking about plant production and happened to notice long strands of bark hanging from the eucalyptuses.
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Sewing Rompers
From our first show at Woolfest last year we realised there was a small problem with our kits. So many people said that they wanted to buy one but they had baby boys. Not wanting to scar child for life by having him turned out in a dress we now have Dipper, for both
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Ainsworth and Prin Dress Kits – Sewing the Skirt
You’ve knitted the bodice, blocked the pieces and sewn the seams and now it’s languishing in the ‘to do’ pile for want of a skirt. If you are more au fait with the knitting needles than the sewing machine we thought a photo tutorial would help the process along. Panic not – Liberty Tana Lawn is
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Provisional crochet cast on
When I taught myself to knit in the early 1980’s life was simple when a pattern said cast on you did just that, a simple cable cast on and off you went. There was only one way to cast on, wasn’t there? It appears there are nearly as many ways to cast on as there
