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Knitting
How to Increase and Decrease Knitting Stitches (Video)
Increasing and decreasing stitches enables you to create knitted pieces with edges that taper and expand. This video shows you an increase technique called the bar increase and a decrease technique that knits two stitches together. [more…]
Knitting
How to Pick Up a Dropped Stitch in Knitting (Video)
Dropped stitches can cause knitting to unravel, so you must pick up (fix) that dropped stitch. This video shows you how to find dropped stitches and how to fix them as you knit. [more…]
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Stitches & Designs
Knitting Cables
The simple technique of cabling (crossing one group of stitches over another) lends itself to many interpretations in knitting. It's easy to do, you can make all kinds of interesting and imaginative cable [more…]
Projects
Doing a Double Crochet
The double crochet (abbreviated dc) is one of the most common crochet stitches and is about twice as tall as a single crochet. (You can read about single crochet in [more…]
How To Quilt
Machine Quilting Tips and Tricks
If you have chosen to machine quilt your project, you need to prepare your machine for the chore at hand. Each machine quilting technique requires a different type of presser foot and machine setting, [more…]
Crafts & Hobbies
Tending to Mortise-and-Tenon Joints
Mortise-and-tenon joints are among the strongest joints in woodworking, and are used for projects that have frame construction and need to be strong. Chairs and tables use them as does most Arts and Crafts [more…]
Stitches
Crocheting in Circles
To begin a design that you work in rounds, you first have to create a center ring. The center ring is the foundation for all crocheted designs that are worked in rounds — just like the foundation chain [more…]
