She-Knits Podcast: The Knitting Circle
Listen to Sharon talk about balancing her constant hunger to knit and design more while keeping things afloat in her BIG family life.
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Friday, Jan 11, 2008
#35 Teaching
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You can definitely finish a steek without a sewing machine. There are a couple of ways. You can hand sew the same thing you would sew on the sewing machine. OR, you can use Meg Swansen's technique of crocheting stitches together along the seam line and then your stitches are finished nicely as well. Kelly Petkun did a whole podcast on the subject. You should give it a try, it's well worth it it if you don't like seaming or purling.
You can knit reversible lace too- just choose a "garter-based" as opposed to a "stockinette-based" pattern (wrong side rows are knit rather than purled) Many of Evelyn Clarke's patterns are like this, and many patterns in the stitch dictionaries as well. Really, you could make this change to just about any lace pattern, I would think.
Also, congrats on your first experience with teaching beginners- I too find this to be very fulfilling. But watch out mixing up two very similar but different looking cast-ons; the knitted cast-on is done by inserting the needle IN the stitch, while the cable cast-on is done by inserting the needle BETWEEN the stitches. It's amazing how differently these two cast-ons appear in the finished piece.
Thanks for your great podcast; I never miss it!