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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Knit Kitchen Towel Holder Waffle Style

Sugar & Cream Yarn
size 8 double pointed needles
tapestry needle

Cast on 10 stitches
Row 1: Knit all stitches
Row 2: knit all stitches
Row 3: knit 3 do **buttonhole on four stitches knit 3
Row 4 knit
Row 5 purl
Row 6 K1, P2 ,K1, P2, K1, P2, K1
Row 7 P1, K2, P1, K2, P1, K2, P1

Repeat…. 4-7 four more times.

Next row: bind off 6 stitches, k4

With your 4. remaining live stitches, knit an i-cord 4 inches long
Bind off the i-cord and attached to right side of towel holder by sewing with tapestry needle.

I have decided that no button is necessary if you just hang and pull the loop through the buttonhole. (might be because I’m lazy!)

**Buttonhole

Step 1 -- work to where you want buttonhole to begin. Bring yarn to front; slip 1 purl-wise, bring yarn to back.

Step 2 -- Slip 1 purl-wise, pass first slipped stitch over second. (repeat this part 2 more times--passing over 3 stitches total, for a 3-stitch buttonhole) Place last stitch back on left needle. Turn work.

Step 3 -- Cast on 4 stitches (for the 3 stitches you bound off, plus 1) using the cable cast-on method.

Step 4 -- Turn work (so RS is facing). Bring yarn to back; slip first st of left needle onto right needle and pass last CO st over it. …you're done! Work to end of the row, or to the next buttonhole!

Knitting Tutorial - One Row Buttonhole - YouTube

Goes well with

Grandmother's Waffle Washcloth

Saturday, February 14, 2015

General Finish Products.... Black Lamp Milk Paint & Java Stain

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Sleep Sack for Baby

Sleep Sack for Baby.... with Zipper

Cast on 76 stitch's with Judy's Magic Cast-On

Bottom of Sack

Monday, September 8, 2014

Knitting in A Zipper

Let's put a Zipper in a knitted Item...

You will need a Knit Picker! ( I got mine at Hobby Lobby.) and a zipper. (found mine in a stash in the basement). Also you need to check your gauge of your knitting so you will know where to mark your zipper for each stitch you will be knitting into. Mine came out to every 1/4". Lucky me.!! Now I have marked my zipper so I will know where to punch my Knit Picker to pick up a stitch. You will need to find some marker that will show on you zipper. (you can see a few different ones in the picture below.)

I learned after trail and error ( lots of errors) that a plastic darning needle matching your needle size ( mine is a 5) worked best and then I just pulled yarn threw and and leave it for spacer while I'm knitting.

Then I would knit the first stitch with the loop on the sipper... knit to the last stitch ... and knit the last stitch with the loop on the zipper. Turn you work and slip the first stitch as to purl .... purl to the last stitch.....and slip as to purl. Repeat these two rows.