Linkety-Link, part 12

If you follow me on Pinterest, you’ll have seen these already.

Here’s some links to other people describing interesting and useful techniques. Enjoy!

Knitting

• Afterthought gussets for an afterthought heel (at the bottom of the page).
• Furniture feet – felted socks for furniture legs so they don’t scratch the floor.
• Making binding off in the middle of the row tidier.
• Buttonhole cast-on
• twice-knit knitting – dense fabric that doesn’t stretch and won’t ladder if it gets a hole. And yet, it’s knitting. I’ve seen this in a Montse Stanley book, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it online.
• How many stitches will fit on a circular needle – estimates based on gauge and needle length. Handy!

Miscellaneous fiber arts

• No-sew rag rugs – the strips are attached to each other while the braiding is happening. Intriguing!
• Making a long, narrow, striped pom-pom kind of thing – I used a technique like this to make a tail for my son’s Hallowe’en costume a few years back.
• Pom-pom hedgehogs
• An easy way to accurately pleat ribbon for trim.
• Unexpected sewing tools.

Skirt slit modification.

(I occasionally post about sewing and mending.)

I don’t like skirts with long slits. I liked this skirt at the thrift shop, but knew that if I were to sew up the slit, I wouldn’t be able to walk. But I had an idea. Why not put in some contrasting fabric as a reverse box pleat?

Linkety Link!

• How to Crochet Bobbles in a Knitting Project <- what it says on the box.
• Making a string of double crochet circles that are attached to each other without cutting the yarn. So much love!
• I want to try that with this technique for avoiding substituting chain-3 for a double crochet:
• A bag to hang a gadget from its recharging plug. The bag that’s shown is sewn, but it would be easy enough to improvise a knit or crocheted one.
• Fixing a too-big jeans waistband; good for those of us with a small waist compared to our hip sizes. Requires a sewing machine, though.

A few links

One way of using chain stitch to attach blocks to each other.

Sewing jeans that fit.

The Italian cast on. (Stretchy; good for ribbing. A variant of the tubular cast on, I think.)

Random fiber arts links, part 3

Random links. I’m going to be using my sewing machine again soon. Can you tell?

I’m afraid the extent of my interesting crochet links this week involves using a crochet hook to decorate knitting. I’m very much in favor of combining the two. 🙂

Make easy plaid (or vertical lines) on your knitting with a crochet hook and chain stitch.

Sew these ribbon holders, useful for headbands, or, you know, circular hooks or needles.

Sewing darts with a single thread in both sewing machine bobbin and needle. I must try this; human ingenuity is immense.

Popsicle stick rigid heddle looms for use with a simple backstrap loom setup.

Sewing narrow hems on the sewing machine.