Episode 247 Sans Serif

San Serif Sweater by Elizabeth Doherty in Quince & Co Chickadee in the Dogwood colorway. Check out Elizabeth’s blog post on correcting Rowing Out (if your knit stitches and purl stitches do not match in size.) See BlueBeeStudio.com. Direct link in show notes.

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Episode 247 Sans Serif

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Episode 246 Cumbria Hill Top Shawl and EYF2016

Curious Handmade Country House Retreat in Cumbria, Hill Top Shawl by Helen Stewart, and Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2016.

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Episode 246 Cumbria, Hill Top Shawl, and EYF2016

Knit a Picot Hem and Seam it as You Knit

If you were knitting a hem on a garment in a normal way, from here you would just continue on to the body of the garment and finish the hem at the end by folding along the fold line (or the row with the yarn overs in the case of a picot hem) and sewing the first three rows to the back of the work. 

Instead, we are going to "sew" the hem right now as we knit the next row. 

Fold the first three rows to the back of the work, either on the turning row or the picot edging row, depending on the type of hem you are knitting.

 

Put the right-hand needle into the first stitch as if to knit, then go through the first stitch of the cast on edge and knit these two "stitches" together. 

Repeat across the row, working the stitch with its corresponding stitch along the edge, until you have worked all the stitches. This results in a hem that is sewn down firmly, but rips out as easily as frogging your knitting should you need to. 

From there, continue to work the body of the garment as indicated in the pattern. 

Now that you know how to do this you can easily add a "sewn" hem or a picot edge to any knitting project you like, from sweaters to hats or even the edge of a dishcloth for extra cuteness. 

That one row will take a bit longer to work, and in the beginning it's a little fiddly to pick up the stitch on the edge in the right place, but it's a lot quicker and easier than sewing the hem down by hand and there are no extra ends to weave in. It doesn't really get any better than that. 

This method is used in the Picot Edge Fingerless Gloves pattern from Dawn Prickett.

The Royal Llama Silk Hat from Plymouth Yarns uses a picot edging where the seam is sewn after the knitting is done, but you can easily use this method instead so there's no finishing other than weaving in ends when you're done. Carole Julius has a great pair of picot-edged socks, too, which are otherwise Stockinette and really simple to knit. 

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Episode 245 Scotland and Custom Socks

A bit about my trip to Scotland (more on this in next episode) and Custom Socks: Knit to Fit Your Feet by Kate Atherly. Interweave 2015.

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Episode 245 Scotland and Custom Socks

Baby’s 1st Fair Isle Cardi

Baby’s First Fair Isle Cardigan, a new circularly-knit, stranded and steeked Fair Isle knitting design by Mary Ann Stephens. Available as a PDF from Ravelry or as a discounted kit from Mary Ann’s online yarn shop, Kidsknits.com.  Kits are available in your four favorite shades of Dale Baby Ull.

It’s been an awfully long time since we’ve had a baby in the family.  Right now, our “baby” is my youngest son, who’s 16 already!  (Although he’d probably tell you the “baby” in our family is Gracie, below:)

Gracie with her friend, Mr. Roosevelt.

One of my wonderful nephews, and his very sweet wife, recently announced that they’re expecting a girl in July.  We’re so excited for them!  The glowing Mom-to-be told me that she’d like “something different”.  I’ve heard that a lot lately – so many soon-to-be parents want “something different”.  But how different is their “different”?

Some of you might be surprised to hear that one of the most common threads among today’s “something different” seekers has been a preference for something grey for their babies.  That’s definitely different than the traditional pink or blue!  But,  I think it can also turn out to be be pretty cute, and often unisex, too.  So, I knit this little grey cardi with the latest wave of “different” in mind:

Baby’s First Fair Isle Cardigan, in the grey colorway, with classic straight-sided shaping, using Dale Baby Ull in: sand heather 0004, grey heather 0007, golden olive 2226 and retro red 3820.

At least I’ll be covered if it turns out that the sonogram technician missed something!😉

Asking my nephew’s wife a bit more about her color preferences, it turns out she wants something “Girly…but not too girly.  More purple than pink.”  So maybe not quite as “different”as the latest trend seekers’ “different”.  Maybe something more like this:

Baby’s First Fair Isle Cardigan in the mint colorway, with a bell-shaped, gathered body, using Dale Baby Ull in light green 8222, lupine 5226, powder pink 4202, light eggplant 4435.

Of course, there are countless Baby Ull combinations that would be suitable for a design like this.  Which colors would you use?

Baby’s 1st Fair Isle Cardi