In the Minamo pullover, I used Twisted Yarn Over increases, and not just the good old regular Yarn Over (YO) but the Backwards Yarn Over (BYO) too – but knit into the back leg and the front leg respectively to twist the holes shut. Increasing like this might seem needlessly different when the ...
left handed
Tubular cast-on
The tubular cast-on is great for hats, bottom-up sweaters and top-down socks. It's a neat and tidy cast-on that is extremely stretchy and flows almost invisibly into 1x1 ribbing, and with one extra row to rearrange the stitches it flows wonderfully into 2x2 ribbing too. This version casts ...
Knitting left-handed
Being a left-handed “mirror” knitter is a little more challenging than knitting the conventional, right-handed way, but I think most of us lefties don’t mind trading in a little confusion for the comfort of doing something that feels more natural. After all, we’re accustomed to dealing with lots of ...