it's all about knitting these days

At the moment I'm working on some own knit designs including instructions. It's a lot of work. Creating  a piece in a new design is definitly the fun part, but defining the sizes and measurments and scale it up and down it's a bit harder than expected.
Anyway, I nearly finish some pieces (including the instructions)  of the collection. Until now 2 cardigans, a ballerina-t-dress, a playsuit...
Started also a summer shorts and a baby romper......
I hope that I soon finish some of the patterns, including testknitting and than I will share them with you on ravelry.

bridal_bouquet_#12_jute_cream_white

bridal bouquet #11_ white_cream_brown

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Tutorial : sew endings as you go

What I usually don't like  is sewing in the endings. Especially when you often change colors and have so many loose threads ...For my new big granny love blanket I figured out how to sew endings as you go, the method is a mix between tutorials I found in the internet combined with my own experience.
Hope you can understand my explanation, otherwise I'm happy if you write me a message if anything is not clear!

start with new color, 2 sc (count as one dc) (1. + 2.), the loose thread lay in crochet direction

and you hide it with next 2 dc, at the 3rd dc, stop when you have 2 loops on your needle (3.) and put the loose thread above the crochet thread,

now make a sc ( make sure the loose thread lays above the crocheting thread as on pic 5 and 6)

repeat pic 3-6 for 2 or 3 times.Now you can just bind the thread off.

october 2014

august 2014