Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Twelve Free Videos from 2013

In past years, I picked out the best blog posts of the year and ran a list on New Year's Eve.  This year, I challenged myself to do a technique video every month, and the videos are by far the most popular posts.  Here are the twelve videos of 2013:
  1. January:  Twisted Fringe Video.   I love this fringe, which hangs nicely and doesn't have yarn ends to fray.
  2. February:  Video on set in sleeve, knitted upside-down using short-rowing.
  3. March:  make a cute Machine Knitted Bunny!  Nope, not difficult; it's just a square of knitted fabric and a little sewing.
  4. April:  Learn knit-side grafted seams with this video.  You can Kitchener from the purl side or the knit side, and sometimes you need to do it from the knit side.
  5. May:  Figure-8 cast-on and graft video.  Here's a stretchy cast-on.
  6. June:  New video, Tam Take Two, showing how you can use sew-as-you-go to make these cute pinwheel hats much more easily.
  7. July:  Make vertical, ribbed buttonholes following this easy video lesson.  This is my favorite buttonhole because it looks so tidy and neat.
  8. August:  The August video was floatless, vertical fair isle.  You can have several colors and textures in work at once!
  9. September:  The September technique video, one of the most popular of the year, shows how to join afghan panels using a contrasting-colored cable. 
  10. October:  Lattice Lace on the Silver Reed machine video teaches a pretty, lacy stitch that "ripples" and knits up very quickly!
  11. November:  The Helix Cable looks quite fancy, but is fast and easy to knit. 
  12. December:  Fingerless Mitt Video, using English Rib to make a thick, quick and practical gift item. 
As of today, I have 160 free MK videos over at my YouTube channel, some great, some primitive (I left my original, clunky beginner lessons up, even though we redid them all in high-definition, using what we learned, for the DVD products we sell).  This is a body of MK work unlike anything anyone else has done, unless they were running a paid subscription site.  I currently have over 2 million views and over 5,000 subscribers, but I get the most excited about the people I have taught to machine knit. 

My husband John says I really must keep on doing the monthly video, and I'm planning to try in 2014. 

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5 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 31, 2013 at 1:08 PM

    Thank you, Diana!
    As a fairly new machine knitter, I am so grateful for your videos.

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  2. TamJanuary 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM

    Your work is much appreciated Diana, thank you!
    Though I haven't been able to successfully complete the twisted fringe (the outlier hook often won't hold the yarn to make the elongate loop - sometimes it would and sometimes it wouldn't). I assume it's either my technique that is at fault or I tried with too thick yarn, or both. I've put it aside out of frustration for now but will come back to it.

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    1. Diana L. Sullivan, CPAJanuary 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM

      Some machines will hold the loop, and some won't. On my machine that won't hold it, I just set the machine to not knit held needles, pull that needle into hold, and put the loop under it before I knit back. That will definitely hold the loop.

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    2. TamJanuary 9, 2014 at 7:12 PM

      hmmm, I will have to try that, thanks for the tip!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM

    I'm glad you're leaving the old tutorials on YouTube. Otherwise, we may have to search again where these lessons are for referrals to beginners.

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