Quick, easy, good-looking castoff for ribbing where the needle arrangement allows for transferring all stitches to the main bed.
This one's done on the machine. Next, I'll teach the same thing but done with waste yarn, so that the loop-thru-a-loop part is done later, away from the machine.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Ribber Lesson 11 - Circular Knitting
I filmed three more videos about getting the most from your ribber! Now I have to get them edited and uploaded. One down, two to go!
Lesson 11, how to knit a tube using the ribber:
Lesson 11, how to knit a tube using the ribber:
Friday, September 11, 2009
Commentary in Forbes on the Obama Speech
I read at least a dozen commentaries on the Obama speech this week, listened to excerpts (we weren’t home Wednesday night), read the fact-checker commentaries, including the one from Associated Press, and of course, glowing reports in the Austin American Statesman.
Of everything I have read, this is the one that resonated with me the most:
I don’t agree with her, though, about tort reform, since here in Texas, it helped a great deal. I doubt if any tort reform proposals will actually come from this administration or the congressional majority leadership who are pushing HR 3200. Despite what he said in his speech, his having Katherine Sebelius as the cabinet member looking into tort reform means to me it’s a non-starter - she used to be the chief lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association.
Ribber Lessons - What's Coming
I have wondered about what to cover in this ribber lesson series, and after giving it considerable thought, I keep returning to the concept that this is another beginner course. I started doing this in the first place because I met beginners who have no local teacher.
The purpose of the ribber lesson series is to cover the essentials to give beginners a working knowledge of the ribber, the ability to incorporate ribbed knitting in garments, and help them to follow ribber instructions in magazines and knitting books. I want them to reach the point where they are excited about what it will do and comfortable with using it. (By the way, according to YouTube, the ribber lessons have more male viewers than any of the other lessons. Guys must find the ribber interesting.)
After that, logically, I need to cover the charting device and some patterning. The charting devices are the simplest, cheapest way to get started with knitting garments to fit.
The lessons are designed so that by watching each lesson in order, then practicing that technique while it’s fresh, you can master the basics and start knitting the projects that inspired you to buy a machine!
I like to understand why I am doing each step of anything I do, not just follow a list of instructions. If I push a button, I want to know what that button is doing. It’s easier to remember that way. I give as much background explanation as possible in the lessons. Of course, as the lessons get more detailed, I have to assume people have watched prior lessons and omit some information, or else I couldn’t move forward. If you discover that I’m going too fast, check out the prior, similar lessons in that same series. Or send me questions or comments, and I’ll respond.
Another thing I mull over is how many projects to put up along with the basic courses. The lesson groups consist of sample after sample, but sometimes you just want to actually make something. Surely everyone wants to say, “I made this!” In that spirit, I think I’ll put some more projects up before the charting device lessons, particularly projects without complex fitting. Most of the knitters I know, even the most advanced, like to collect and make simple, practical projects. We knit them for charity, for quick gifts, or just because we’re in the mood for the tried-and-true project, not a big challenge. Speaking of gifts, it’s already September and the holidays will be upon us soon. We’ve gone from incredible heat and drought in Austin to shorter days and even rain.
I am careful about copyrights. I only put up my own designs or designs with permission, and you’re welcome to knit them, for non-commercial use.
It’s so exciting that I’m working my way through these essential lessons! After they’re online, it will be great fun putting up more unusual and advanced technique videos.
Diana
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Please Read and Consider - Health Care Bill HR 3200
Important questions we should all be asking about the health care proposal, with selected excerpts from the actual 1,017-page legislation:
http://www.classicalideals.com/HR3200.htm
http://www.classicalideals.com/HR3200.htm
Two English Rib Lessons
Well, actually, there are four different techniques in these two lessons. One's done on a knit 1, purl 1 layout and the other one is done on a full needle layout. For each layout, I show how to have the main bed do the tuck stitches as well as how to have the ribber do the tuck stitches.
English Rib looks great! I've used it in quite a few situations, and in particular, I have an easy sweater on http://www.knitnatters.com/ that uses English Rib to good advantage. Maybe I'll make a video about how to do that sweater. If you haven't tried it, please do. It might be listed in your manual as "half fisherman's rib." It has a different look and texture from ordinary fisherman's ribbing, though.
Lesson 8 - English Rib, 1x1 version
Do version 1 and then version 2. I went fast on the version 2 lesson, because it is incredibly similar to the first one, but I wanted to show it and show how different the stitch looks in the smaller gauge.
Ribber Lesson 9 - English Rib, Full Needle Rib Version
English Rib looks great! I've used it in quite a few situations, and in particular, I have an easy sweater on http://www.knitnatters.com/ that uses English Rib to good advantage. Maybe I'll make a video about how to do that sweater. If you haven't tried it, please do. It might be listed in your manual as "half fisherman's rib." It has a different look and texture from ordinary fisherman's ribbing, though.
Lesson 8 - English Rib, 1x1 version
Do version 1 and then version 2. I went fast on the version 2 lesson, because it is incredibly similar to the first one, but I wanted to show it and show how different the stitch looks in the smaller gauge.
Ribber Lesson 9 - English Rib, Full Needle Rib Version
Monday, September 7, 2009
Ribber Lesson 7 - Knit 5, Purl 5
Here's how to do different needle arrangements - cast on in FNR and then rearrange stitches. This video shows how to rearrange into K5 P5:
Ribber Lesson 6 - Broken Toe Cast-On
This cast-on is useful when you need a slightly tighter edge on k1, p1 ribbing or full-needle rib. It has an extra row of yarn at the beginning which holds the comb. That prevents the comb from stretching the knitting too widely.
It begins with a zigzag row, then carefully insert the comb so that the comb will be supported when all the ribber stitches are dropped. The comb will need to be inside the V formed by the yarn going from each knit (main bed) needle to the ribber needle below and back up to the next knit needle.
After you knit the zigzag row and drop the ribber stitches, you do another zigzag row and the rest of the circular cast-on, just like any other circular cast-on. Finally, when the piece of knitting is finished, you will need to remove that first row of yarn by pulling it out on the side opposite the loose end.
It begins with a zigzag row, then carefully insert the comb so that the comb will be supported when all the ribber stitches are dropped. The comb will need to be inside the V formed by the yarn going from each knit (main bed) needle to the ribber needle below and back up to the next knit needle.
After you knit the zigzag row and drop the ribber stitches, you do another zigzag row and the rest of the circular cast-on, just like any other circular cast-on. Finally, when the piece of knitting is finished, you will need to remove that first row of yarn by pulling it out on the side opposite the loose end.
Home at Last
Like most people, I enjoy both travelling and getting home again. This trip to California, primarily to visit family members, was both stressful and fun.
I hadn't been there in several years, so the changes in both places and people were profound and often upsetting. In just a week, we stayed in San Bernardino, Huntington Beach and Simi Valley. We visited both my sisters, my younger brother (the older one doesn't live in that area), John's brother, sister, and mother. The easiest way to get together was to take people to dinner, so it was something of a restaurant tour. (Fortunately, according to my bathroom scale, it wasn't a complete disaster, but we did eat a lot.) We also shopped a little for real estate in the beach communities.
We got home last night, according to our plan to have Labor Day off to recover.
I hadn't been there in several years, so the changes in both places and people were profound and often upsetting. In just a week, we stayed in San Bernardino, Huntington Beach and Simi Valley. We visited both my sisters, my younger brother (the older one doesn't live in that area), John's brother, sister, and mother. The easiest way to get together was to take people to dinner, so it was something of a restaurant tour. (Fortunately, according to my bathroom scale, it wasn't a complete disaster, but we did eat a lot.) We also shopped a little for real estate in the beach communities.
We got home last night, according to our plan to have Labor Day off to recover.
Friday, September 4, 2009
It's My Birthday!
I'm 57 today! John and I will celebrate tonight.
Say a little prayer for me - that I'll be a blessing to my friends, family, coworkers and anybody else I somehow touch, and that I'll behave with integrity and compassion.
Things are going very well for me - but for some of my oldest friends, they aren't going so well just now. We all have our times when a child is sick, or a job is lost, or health is damaged, or some other hardship comes along, but at present, I am grateful for good circumstances, and best of all, I am loved.
Say a little prayer for me - that I'll be a blessing to my friends, family, coworkers and anybody else I somehow touch, and that I'll behave with integrity and compassion.
Things are going very well for me - but for some of my oldest friends, they aren't going so well just now. We all have our times when a child is sick, or a job is lost, or health is damaged, or some other hardship comes along, but at present, I am grateful for good circumstances, and best of all, I am loved.
Tips for Learning Your Ribber
In you're starting with the ribber lessons, here are some ideas to make this whole learning process easier:
1. Use skinny yarn! It doesn't hurt a thing to use thinner yarn than necessary when working with your machine, especially when making practice swatches; however, if the yarn you use is too thick you will be terribly frustrated! It may jam, or it may not knit at all. You want a yarn that is smooth, too - no bumps, hairy stuff, or crimps. The easiest yarn to use as you are learning your ribber is thin, cheap, acrylic yarn. Set a cone on the floor for best flow of the yarn through the tension unit.
2. Consider making your swatches and keeping them rather than unravelling and reusing the yarn. You could staple them to pieces of paper with a label of what yarn you used, what technique, and what machine settings.
3. Use enough weight. You will gradually develop a good idea of how much weight to use. Most ribber manuals have a chart showing how many weights to use for different numbers of stitches. As you begin, refer to that chart.
4. Balance the ribber comb! What I am mean is that the ribber comb should stick out the same amount on each side of the stitches. Here's how to do that - if you want to knit 60 stitches of ribbing, center them by using needle 30 on the left to needle 30 on the right. Then, when you put the ribber comb in, hold it against the bed first and see how long it is, then put it in so the right edge and left edge are at about the same needle numbers. A shortcut I use is to have the center of the comb marked. I hold the comb with my thumb at the mark and put that at zero.
5. Take your time, and after each change in settings, compare them to the book so you don't forget to change a setting.
6. Have faith in your ability to gradually memorize all of this. Because you will do a bunch of short lessons, these things that are peculiar now will be habits later. It gets easy, I promise!
7. If you look in the book and think one of the ribber techniques isn't very interesting, or you look at my lesson and say, no, that's not for me, think again. These things are often much more interesting in your hands than they are in a photograph, so try them anyway and feel them. It will spark your imagination and you'll start having ideas as to how to use the different stitches. Don't be surprised if I act excited about a particular stitch and you think it's nothing special - that's the fun of it, that we're all different.
8. Go on over to http://www.knitnatters.com/ and look at the English Rib Child's Sweater in the free patterns. There's a photo of it on a cute little girl on the Free Patterns page. Here is an entire sweater, intended for beginners, made with the ribber! I think this is such a good teaching project for ribbing that I may do the whole thing on video, and rechart it for the bulky, besides. It's just rectangles. Honestly, this is a MUCH easier sweater than the V-neck raglan beginner sweater I put up on video with the beginner lessons! There is no shaping whatsoever. You can knit these sweater pieces at an amazing rate, and they really do fit and look cute on children. A favorite trick of mine is to use a fun, variegated yarn for the yoke and make the rest plain.
9. Do play around with using the techniques for full needle rib as well as 1 x 1 rib. The difference between the two is simply gauge. You'll be able to use more kinds of yarn, and you'll get more effects.
10. Look through your things and find your "fine knit bar." This is just a long, somewhat flexible piece of plastic that you slide between the main bed gate pegs and the main bed needles. It helps the stitches knit off, and is very helpful for some stitches and gauges. In fact, sometimes I like to use it when just doing main bed work.
11. Swatches are a wonderful way to learn. If you do swatches ahead of a project, you avoid all kinds of unpleasant surprises. I hope you'll do a swatch for every single lesson!
12. Make sure your ribber comb wires are in good condition. Insert the comb, then grab the bent end of the wire and pull the wire out just enough to get the comb in place, then push the wire back in. It certainly is much easier than removing the wire all the way, then trying to hold the comb with one hand and rethread the wire with the other.
13. After the cast-on is done, for the next 8-10 rows, watch and make sure that the comb drops as the ribbing lengthens. This was one of my biggest issues when I was learning my first ribber. Apparently, there wasn't much room for the comb to drop and it would just sit there, either not moving down or only moving down on one side. I was probably using yarn that was too thick, too, my biggest beginner mistake. You can give it a gentle tug downward after each of the first few rows and make sure it isn't sticking.
1. Use skinny yarn! It doesn't hurt a thing to use thinner yarn than necessary when working with your machine, especially when making practice swatches; however, if the yarn you use is too thick you will be terribly frustrated! It may jam, or it may not knit at all. You want a yarn that is smooth, too - no bumps, hairy stuff, or crimps. The easiest yarn to use as you are learning your ribber is thin, cheap, acrylic yarn. Set a cone on the floor for best flow of the yarn through the tension unit.
2. Consider making your swatches and keeping them rather than unravelling and reusing the yarn. You could staple them to pieces of paper with a label of what yarn you used, what technique, and what machine settings.
3. Use enough weight. You will gradually develop a good idea of how much weight to use. Most ribber manuals have a chart showing how many weights to use for different numbers of stitches. As you begin, refer to that chart.
4. Balance the ribber comb! What I am mean is that the ribber comb should stick out the same amount on each side of the stitches. Here's how to do that - if you want to knit 60 stitches of ribbing, center them by using needle 30 on the left to needle 30 on the right. Then, when you put the ribber comb in, hold it against the bed first and see how long it is, then put it in so the right edge and left edge are at about the same needle numbers. A shortcut I use is to have the center of the comb marked. I hold the comb with my thumb at the mark and put that at zero.
5. Take your time, and after each change in settings, compare them to the book so you don't forget to change a setting.
6. Have faith in your ability to gradually memorize all of this. Because you will do a bunch of short lessons, these things that are peculiar now will be habits later. It gets easy, I promise!
7. If you look in the book and think one of the ribber techniques isn't very interesting, or you look at my lesson and say, no, that's not for me, think again. These things are often much more interesting in your hands than they are in a photograph, so try them anyway and feel them. It will spark your imagination and you'll start having ideas as to how to use the different stitches. Don't be surprised if I act excited about a particular stitch and you think it's nothing special - that's the fun of it, that we're all different.
8. Go on over to http://www.knitnatters.com/ and look at the English Rib Child's Sweater in the free patterns. There's a photo of it on a cute little girl on the Free Patterns page. Here is an entire sweater, intended for beginners, made with the ribber! I think this is such a good teaching project for ribbing that I may do the whole thing on video, and rechart it for the bulky, besides. It's just rectangles. Honestly, this is a MUCH easier sweater than the V-neck raglan beginner sweater I put up on video with the beginner lessons! There is no shaping whatsoever. You can knit these sweater pieces at an amazing rate, and they really do fit and look cute on children. A favorite trick of mine is to use a fun, variegated yarn for the yoke and make the rest plain.
9. Do play around with using the techniques for full needle rib as well as 1 x 1 rib. The difference between the two is simply gauge. You'll be able to use more kinds of yarn, and you'll get more effects.
10. Look through your things and find your "fine knit bar." This is just a long, somewhat flexible piece of plastic that you slide between the main bed gate pegs and the main bed needles. It helps the stitches knit off, and is very helpful for some stitches and gauges. In fact, sometimes I like to use it when just doing main bed work.
11. Swatches are a wonderful way to learn. If you do swatches ahead of a project, you avoid all kinds of unpleasant surprises. I hope you'll do a swatch for every single lesson!
12. Make sure your ribber comb wires are in good condition. Insert the comb, then grab the bent end of the wire and pull the wire out just enough to get the comb in place, then push the wire back in. It certainly is much easier than removing the wire all the way, then trying to hold the comb with one hand and rethread the wire with the other.
13. After the cast-on is done, for the next 8-10 rows, watch and make sure that the comb drops as the ribbing lengthens. This was one of my biggest issues when I was learning my first ribber. Apparently, there wasn't much room for the comb to drop and it would just sit there, either not moving down or only moving down on one side. I was probably using yarn that was too thick, too, my biggest beginner mistake. You can give it a gentle tug downward after each of the first few rows and make sure it isn't sticking.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Posting a Video Ribber Course
As I put these links up, I hope that any beginners who are trying to learn to use a ribber will follow the sequence - watch a lesson, do a lesson, in order. You will probably need to modify them to fit your machine - have your manual open so you can find the settings for tuck, slip, etc. for your own brand of machine. I am trying to organize this so it builds knowledge in a logical way. By doing them in order, you shouldn't find them too difficult to do.
For the typical beginner, machine knitting is intimidating. There's a reasonable fear of breaking or bending something, and the general sense that you don't have enough hands! But please persevere...I just had the lovely experience of handing my niece two machine knitted blankets for her beautiful new baby, and I didn't tell her how quickly I whipped 'em out! After all, I work all day and can't sit for hours with knitting needles, as much as I would like to.
I still have the 10-minute limit on YouTube, which is okay with me, because I don't want them to be long and boring. But it does mean that I can't show the beginning steps over and over again or let the camera run for long while I am pushing the carriage back and forth.
The lessons are begining to get interesting. For instance, the e-wrap cast-on that I just put up is something that you won't find in your manual, yet is easy to do and makes a very nice edge. It is also practical when you have to cast-on additional ribber stitches in the middle of a project, for instance in the Almost Seamless Baby Sweater.
I keep changing the links on the left margin of this blog to make it easy to navigate to the different groups of lessons that I have put up. First of all (and down the list) is a complete beginner's machine knitting course for the person with any flatbed Japanese knitting machine. Above that is a link to the beginner's project, which is a V-neck raglan sweater. Above that is the complete garter bar course - quite fun, and I bet I've got something in there you've never seen before. Now I'm on the ribber, and the course so far can be reached by clicking on the "click here" in that top link description. Here's my rationale: if I were a beginner, what order would be good to acquire and learn equipment? I imagine I'd start with a main bed, then I'd try to get my hands on a garter bar (because it's relatively cheap and does so many useful things), and then I'd try to purchase a ribber. Or, maybe I'd have gotten the whole works from some knitting nut and I just wouldn't know where to start! So here's a plan of attack.
I think charting devices are the next useful thing, where you can trace on a pattern and then knit to fit, but that won't be for a little while because there are so many amazing ribber techniques. I've got plans for lots of ribber lessons.
I do love to hear from you, and this time, let me throw out this question - what kinds of patterns would you like to have? Do you knit gifts, or things to sell, or what? Let me know... For instance, I was thinking about putting up a garter bar watch cap with garter stitch around the ears for warmth and then garter bar decreases to make it fit the head. To design something and double-check, to proofread it carefully, takes a little work, so I'd like to know what people need.
For the typical beginner, machine knitting is intimidating. There's a reasonable fear of breaking or bending something, and the general sense that you don't have enough hands! But please persevere...I just had the lovely experience of handing my niece two machine knitted blankets for her beautiful new baby, and I didn't tell her how quickly I whipped 'em out! After all, I work all day and can't sit for hours with knitting needles, as much as I would like to.
I still have the 10-minute limit on YouTube, which is okay with me, because I don't want them to be long and boring. But it does mean that I can't show the beginning steps over and over again or let the camera run for long while I am pushing the carriage back and forth.
The lessons are begining to get interesting. For instance, the e-wrap cast-on that I just put up is something that you won't find in your manual, yet is easy to do and makes a very nice edge. It is also practical when you have to cast-on additional ribber stitches in the middle of a project, for instance in the Almost Seamless Baby Sweater.
I keep changing the links on the left margin of this blog to make it easy to navigate to the different groups of lessons that I have put up. First of all (and down the list) is a complete beginner's machine knitting course for the person with any flatbed Japanese knitting machine. Above that is a link to the beginner's project, which is a V-neck raglan sweater. Above that is the complete garter bar course - quite fun, and I bet I've got something in there you've never seen before. Now I'm on the ribber, and the course so far can be reached by clicking on the "click here" in that top link description. Here's my rationale: if I were a beginner, what order would be good to acquire and learn equipment? I imagine I'd start with a main bed, then I'd try to get my hands on a garter bar (because it's relatively cheap and does so many useful things), and then I'd try to purchase a ribber. Or, maybe I'd have gotten the whole works from some knitting nut and I just wouldn't know where to start! So here's a plan of attack.
I think charting devices are the next useful thing, where you can trace on a pattern and then knit to fit, but that won't be for a little while because there are so many amazing ribber techniques. I've got plans for lots of ribber lessons.
I do love to hear from you, and this time, let me throw out this question - what kinds of patterns would you like to have? Do you knit gifts, or things to sell, or what? Let me know... For instance, I was thinking about putting up a garter bar watch cap with garter stitch around the ears for warmth and then garter bar decreases to make it fit the head. To design something and double-check, to proofread it carefully, takes a little work, so I'd like to know what people need.
Ribber Lessons - So Far
Here's the list of ribber lessons for the flatbed knitting machine:
Ribber Lesson 1 - Circular Cast-On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQZ_V5a7JLA
Ribber Lesson 2 - Full Needle Rib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL9FvFP318
Ribber Lesson 3 - Knit 2, Purl 2 Ribbing, Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkK_jbBuiIw
Ribber Lesson 4 - Knit 2, Purl 2 Ribbing, Springy Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90_iobGu-0
Ribber Lesson 5 - E-Wrap Cast-On for Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0df6TU2Ro
Ribber Lesson 6 - Broken Toe Cast-On for Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzparWeh8M
Ribber Lesson 7 - Knit 5, Purl 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdJDleJacrk
Ribber Lesson 8 - English Rib, 1x1 Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxvfW1Yuxlk
Ribber Lesson 9 - English Rib, Full Needle Rib Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPxEQuQK574
Ribber Lesson 10 - Fisherman Rib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wTaY_nTI7Q
Ribber Lesson 11 - Circular Knitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePB7iezULno
Ribber Lesson 12 - U-Shaped Knitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16II1IJ6510
Ribber Lesson 13 - Loop Through loop Bind-Off for Ribbing, on Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSFEwMtrUZM
Ribber Lesson 14 - Loop Through Loop Bind-Off for Ribbing, Off Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DXVRnESLw
Ribber Lesson 15 - Smiles & Frowns Cast-Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV7njg7tKFE
Ribber Lesson 16 - Smiles and Frowns Cast-Off for Knit 2, Purl 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tp0fYxZm3M
Ribber Lesson 17 - Edge Decreases in Knit 1, Purl 1 Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFA_KCf_CI
Ribber Lesson 18 - Different increases in Knit 1, Purl 1 Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgcISXFRq6M
Ribber Lesson 19 - Casting Off Part of a Row of Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBxKrLqIuM
Ribber Lesson 20 - Racked Ribbing Pattern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbtXjQfh_o
Ribber Lesson 21 - Short Rowing Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=648mMUtb8co
Ribber Lesson 22 - Pintucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_da3h0Km_xI
Ribber Lesson 23 - Ribber Tuck Stitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhMLi_QUcU
Ribber Lesson 24 - Drop Stitch Lace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1QlDBnaAA
Ribber Lesson 25 - Slipped Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmmdH8Fo34c
Ribber Lesson 1 - Circular Cast-On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQZ_V5a7JLA
Ribber Lesson 2 - Full Needle Rib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL9FvFP318
Ribber Lesson 3 - Knit 2, Purl 2 Ribbing, Regular Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkK_jbBuiIw
Ribber Lesson 4 - Knit 2, Purl 2 Ribbing, Springy Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90_iobGu-0
Ribber Lesson 5 - E-Wrap Cast-On for Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP0df6TU2Ro
Ribber Lesson 6 - Broken Toe Cast-On for Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzparWeh8M
Ribber Lesson 7 - Knit 5, Purl 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdJDleJacrk
Ribber Lesson 8 - English Rib, 1x1 Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxvfW1Yuxlk
Ribber Lesson 9 - English Rib, Full Needle Rib Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPxEQuQK574
Ribber Lesson 10 - Fisherman Rib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wTaY_nTI7Q
Ribber Lesson 11 - Circular Knitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePB7iezULno
Ribber Lesson 12 - U-Shaped Knitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16II1IJ6510
Ribber Lesson 13 - Loop Through loop Bind-Off for Ribbing, on Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSFEwMtrUZM
Ribber Lesson 14 - Loop Through Loop Bind-Off for Ribbing, Off Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DXVRnESLw
Ribber Lesson 15 - Smiles & Frowns Cast-Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV7njg7tKFE
Ribber Lesson 16 - Smiles and Frowns Cast-Off for Knit 2, Purl 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tp0fYxZm3M
Ribber Lesson 17 - Edge Decreases in Knit 1, Purl 1 Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFA_KCf_CI
Ribber Lesson 18 - Different increases in Knit 1, Purl 1 Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgcISXFRq6M
Ribber Lesson 19 - Casting Off Part of a Row of Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBxKrLqIuM
Ribber Lesson 20 - Racked Ribbing Pattern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbtXjQfh_o
Ribber Lesson 21 - Short Rowing Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=648mMUtb8co
Ribber Lesson 22 - Pintucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_da3h0Km_xI
Ribber Lesson 23 - Ribber Tuck Stitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhMLi_QUcU
Ribber Lesson 24 - Drop Stitch Lace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1QlDBnaAA
Ribber Lesson 25 - Slipped Ribbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmmdH8Fo34c
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Ribber Lesson 4 - Springy Knit 2 Purl 2 Ribbing
Here's that next lesson, which uses a 2x1 needle arrangement on both the main bed and the ribber bed to create a much springier ribbing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90_iobGu-0
And, here's the embedded video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90_iobGu-0
And, here's the embedded video:
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
SoCal Wildfires / Visit to Simi Valley
On the drive to Simi Valley to visit my youngest sister Karen, I got a photo of the smoke early on in the Station Fire. This was Saturday afternoon before the fire was so horrible and spread. The black smoke travelled up in a plume, and then the weather conditions created by the fire created a cumulus-type white cloud above the fire.
Another! Ribber Video
Ah, so lovely to be at Sharon's house uploading on their high speed internet connection!
This next lesson is knit 2, purl 2 ribbing, also called 2 x 2 ribbing. I've put it up on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkK_jbBuiIw
And here it is, embedded: (My darling nephew Thomas showed me how to get the embedding feature to work again!)
This next lesson is knit 2, purl 2 ribbing, also called 2 x 2 ribbing. I've put it up on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkK_jbBuiIw
And here it is, embedded: (My darling nephew Thomas showed me how to get the embedding feature to work again!)
New Ribber Video
Before I left Austin, I filmed a video on casting on using full needle rib, and then I edited it on my trip. I strongly urge you, if you haven't used your ribber in a while, or if you're a beginner, to just work through these lessons in order. Watch a lesson each day and do whatever I did in that lesson. I'm trying to do them in building-block order so you'll develop a good, solid knowledge of how to use the ribbber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL9FvFP318
This one is pretty darn easy - do it with your ribber manual at hand, because the settings are different from one machine to another. It's absolutely an essential, basic lesson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL9FvFP318
This one is pretty darn easy - do it with your ribber manual at hand, because the settings are different from one machine to another. It's absolutely an essential, basic lesson.
Huntington Beach
Hanging out in Huntington Beach today, looking at properties and eating wonderful things. They're having a heat wave. It must be over 80 degrees outside!
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