Hints & Tips :: Upside Down Kntting

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Every garment starts by casting on stitches but with Upside Down Knitting the cast-on edge is usually the actual start of the garment, in traditional knitting it is in fact the end of the garment. The popular method of casting, the Cable cast-on, where the right hand needle is pushed between the stitch on the left hand needle and the resulting cast on has a cable effect along the edge is only suitable if there is to be stitches picked up and further knitting done, eve... Full Article

Modern knitting needle come in a variety of lengths, types and materials. Wood, Metal and a range of plastics have all been used. Needles can have a point at one end, a point at both ends and two points joined by a flexible material. It is possible to knit a small baby coat with a pair of straight needles with one point, the traditional knitting needle. Anything can be knitted with the sets of double pointed needles, often called sock needles. These come in sets of four ... Full Article

In Upside Down Knitting there is often a need for stitches to be held for later use. Two options for this need are the traditional method of threading a length of contrasting yarn through the stitches and tying the ends of the yarn loosely. An alternative method is to actually knit the stitches with a length of contrasting yarn, knit one row in a smooth contrasting yarn along the number of stitches that you want to put on hold, then turn and cast of the stitches, tie o... Full Article

Just about any smooth yarn that contrasts with the main yarn can be used to do the invisible cast-on. A recommended material is the material sold for threading beads, this is a thin fabric based material that can be used repeatedly for any of the cast on methods using waste yarn and in most cases can be reused, it is not recommended for the knitted waste yarn cast on. Full Article

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