The Knitting Fiend

A reader emailed me and wanted to know how to figure out how to increase evenly across a row. She knew she could use one of my calculators, but also wanted an explanation. So, for beginning knitters, I made a youtube video, explaining with …. toothpicks. Here it is:

The calculator

This calculator will calculate in case you don’t want to use toothpicks.
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Joanna dropped me a note saying she was having trouble with “the calculator for the round yoke sweater”. She didn’t specify the exact page so I assume that she meant “The Yokeulator.”

I checked…. and someone has noticed a bug in the program– from way back just before I stopped posting. Anyway…. I fixed the bug today. The bug was: If you used custome, the program over-wrote your head dimension. This meant users couldn’t make the neck tighter or looser for a given neck size.

I found the problem and fixed it. So, now those of you with big or small heads who want to knit yoke sweaters can calculate the shape. (Fitting in patterns is a challenge for more advanced knitters, and can’t be script-ti-fied easily. )

If you find bugs in other programs, let me know. I’ll try to fix them…. eventually.

Having neglected the blog for something like 15 months, I suspect I now have no readers. But, I did finish Jim’s sweater … a year late. I then picked up the crochet hook. I figured: I might as well start posting projects again! I plan to start posting– but probably once a week.

Anyway, during the superbowl, I made “Moose Towels”– more commonly knows as crocheted towel toppers. I finished the crocheting for 10 of these, but I don’t have buttons!

Figure 1: Moose towels. (Aka crocheted towel toppers.)

Next week, I plan to show my method for creating the first row which causes the towels to fold “just so” rather than rippling across the front. For many designs it doesn’t matter if the front ripples, but rippling would be a negative with these. The trick step to flat fronts that automatically fold at the sides involves masking tape, a ruler and a pen! Other than that, these are just normal crocheted towel toppers.