In real life, the yarn resulting from unraveling the 3 stitches will be much longer, proportionately. In a very bushy pom-pom, this will not be a problem, because the yarn weight 2 has not the room to unravel, but in a sparse pom-pom, you may face this issue. I may set a new record for having the Hitchhiker on the needles longer than anyone else in history. It is Noro Silk Garden, k1, p1 rib, US size 7 needles. I also want to try this out in kid size to see what I think. You can see that I picked up stitches on the front bands as well as the body of the cardigan. Command hooks up the least room of any system, and they the most adaptable—there is always some surface you can stick these to! Lacking extra hands, pressing the works against the tabletop while cutting helps prevent the cut yarns from springing about and showering the room with stray ends.
You might have found that quite a few neckties available in the market today are usually personalized like an art while some just seem similar to it absolutely was drawn by a child. Laura contacted me awhile ago and asked if I would be interested in hosting a giveaway for a few sets of her buttons. However, basic tassels look swell too, and make a very fine hat topper in just a few moments. When you get there (just past the color change for last color) wait for me—the next post will incorporate 3 more tricks to make a truly flat hat top. A couple of days ago, a knitter on a community board asked how to make pom-poms. When I was 10, I had to make dozens of pom-poms for a project. If you find in your own work, that the double loop at stitch 5 does show a little bit, dig around on the back of the fabric with a small knitting needle, and once you locate the «back» of the two loops, tug on it to make it disappear. We’ll use a kfb increase and force the teal stitch to do double duty by turning it into the last fabric stitch AND the first bind off stitch.
You see, due to the kfb increase, the two teal stitches are not merely connected by one single tail like ordinary stitches—no! Illustration 3, below: As you can see, using the traditional method, the last fabric stitch (teal) and the first bind off stitch (purple) are connected by nothing other than a single strand—the tail yarn which connects the teal stitch to the purple stitch. Rather, you are instructed to simply begin with an ordinary chain bind off as illustrated below: the last stitch of the fabric will be the teal stitch, while the first stitch bound off will be the purple stitch, which is being drawn over the green stitch. Bind off using a needle a couple sizes larger or I used Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off (click here for a tutorial). Shown here are basic tassels, but you can really jazz these up quite a bit—you can put a bead or a bit of stuffing in the top part, you can wrap two or more «top parts,» the variety is endless, and tassel-making is actually a fine and ancient fabric art in its own right.
As you can see, stitches should be replaced RIGHT arm forward. As you can also see, the extra loop of stitch 5 does not show. As you can see, the purple stitch is connected to the teal stitch by the little red tail, and we’ll talk more about that little tail in illustrations 3 and 4, below. The kf part of the foundation stitch lays under the first teal stitch, and this part of the foundation stitch is brown, whereas the kb part of the foundation stitch lies under the second teal stitch, and this part of the foundation stitch is orange.Illustration 5, above, shows the very real benefit of using the kfb increase. As the teal stitch and the purple stitch stretch ever further apart they will stretch and expose that single red tail. Row «Sh» (red) a fully short row—starts at the bright blue turn-point, is worked towards the right edge but is stopped short when the work is again turned at the pink turn-point.