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The author of the pattern was kind enough to write me back and I learned two things: The cast-on had to be done as a cable cast-on I was making the mistake of casting on 3 stitches and then casting o …

I'm knitting a miniature mitten in the round (for a tea cosy). … (CO meaning cast on) The next line tells me to keep on knitting and do a two stitch decrease According to the picture this should give me a little bump of a thumb, but all I'm getting is 3 big holes and …

I’m following a pattern for an infinity scarf and it’s knit in the round. I can’t make sense of the cast-on portion of the pattern: Cast-on and Setup rounds: “CO 136 (4 repeats), CO 170 stitches (5 r …

I know how you're supposed to properly block knitting (get it wet, squeeze it out, stretch it/pin it and let it air dry). … I agree that knitted garments should be looked after more carefully than regular laundry, but I just know that's unrealistic for the person I'm knitting for. …

I often find myself changing directions by mistake and not noticing it until I find a hole, while knitting in the round using DPNs. … This especially happens when I’m just starting a project, when the work can easily flop to the other side of the needles, so that even if I’m always knitting counter-clockwise, I start going the wrong …

After swatching and blocking, is it common to unravel the swatch and use that yarn in your project? I'm assuming the blocking would change the yarn a bit but that once you blocked the whole finished p …

I used to do a terrible thing, I'd buy beautiful skeins of hand-dyed yarn and rush home and wind them into super tight balls by hand. I now have a ball winder and a lot more sense. I'm rewinding these …