Let's Knit Magazine - Your knitting, your style

alisonb - 30 June 2008 10:18 PM

I don’t know if this explanation will come out right but here goes!! You take the edge of the piece you want the stitches on and put you needle through near to the edge, then put the wool around the needle as if you are knitting an ordinary stitch, pull back through the edge and you should have a stitch on your needle.  Repeat right along until you have the required number of stitches.  You only use one needle.  Hope that helps!!  Perhaps some one has seen an explanation on You Tube. I always put my tongue out wheni am concentrating!!!

You can always do like Waggel said and put a crochet hook through the fabric at the point you want to start eg, edge of neck. Then bring the wool through and put the loop onto a needle and then knit the st off the needle as you would if it was an ordinary row. This is a bit of a long winded way of doing it but easy for beginners.

Knew you would come up trumps Gill!!! You’re just right! Byee

alisonb - 30 June 2008 10:33 PM

Knew you would come up trumps Gill!!! You’re just right! Byee

Gill must be an expert in knitting,so here goes,how hard/easy are bobbles and loops to do Gill?I would like to have a go one day in the near future.

EEEK Cheryl!  bobbles - you have just thrown me back about 25 years when I knitted myself a pink cardigan with bobbles all over it.  I loved it then, it makes me cringe now.

I can’t for the life of me remember how I did it, but if I managed it when I was about 15, then it can’t be that difficult lol!

Grant42 - 01 July 2008 12:35 PM

alisonb - 30 June 2008 10:33 PM

Knew you would come up trumps Gill!!! You’re just right! Byee

Gill must be an expert in knitting,so here goes,how hard/easy are bobbles and loops to do Gill?I would like to have a go one day in the near future.

Hi, just popped in for a quick peep and saw you needed a bit of advice. Bobbles are very easy but fiddly. You knit a st but before you take it off the needle you knit into it as many times as the pattern says and THEN take it off the needle. The patterns will always tell you how many times to knit into the sts because some bobbles are bigger than others. As for loops, you knit around your finger or a pencil or something like that and as you put the wool round your needle it makes the loops. I am not very good at explaining but I could show someone quite easily

Bobbles my pet hate but if you want to make a bobble knit into he front and back of the same stitch 5 times creating 5 stitches turn and purl turn k2tog k1 sl ss over k2tog then carry on with your row try it out on a square until you get the look and size you want as the more st you k into the 1st the bigger the bobble. Practice first it helps. Picking up st my trick is not to cast off the last sts as this means less st to pick up, every knitters pet hate I think.lol.

I used to love doing bobbles   The pattern should explain how to do them as some patterns call for bigger bobbles than others.