The next stage in our Professional Finishing series is all about the three needle cast off and it’s my favourite stage. It creates a beautifully smooth even seam and it’s so easy to do. If you fancied seeing what I am writing about I’ve done a short  three needle cast off close-up video as well […]

In this Professional Finishing series of blog posts we have looked at sizing, that T word, and decreasing.  In the decreasing we mentioned the amazing difference of how one stitch makes picking up stitches nice and easy. In this blog post I shall chat about how picking up stitches can be enjoyable and how making […]

Decreasing – something that seems so unimportant yet one small change makes all the difference. Hopefully you’ve read the previous three blog posts I’ve done in this Professional Finishing series. There is one on Sizing and then the another one on that T word that we all love so much,( sarcasm doesn’t read well does […]

It’s been a while, I’ve been on holiday which has meant a pause in the Professional Finishing blogging, but I’m back and we shall start again with another blog on something tricky….how many will read this blog?? Ok, let’s get back to it…so we want to knit our own garment. The first thing I suggest […]

So, you want to knit your own garment?  The first thing that we need to determine is your size, then it is what size do you want to knit? So let’s start with looking at the measurements on the pattern. In the Purl &Jane patterns you’ll find all the measurements you need. I included suggested […]

I thought I would do an introduction to the next series of blog posts that I’m going to do – these will be on Professional Finishing.  Firstly let me start with a small introduction about me and my background, I am a hand knit designer and I have a studio – Purl &Jane studio in […]

So you’re ready to cast off? Exciting! So we’ve done slipknot, cast on, knit stitch, I’ve talked about the T word, and also about mistakes.  If you’re reading this in sequence, the last blog post I did was on mistakes (a bit of a rambling one!) and I’ve also done a couple of short videos […]

I wanted to do a blog post about mistakes but it’s proving to be a difficult blog post for me to do for you and I’m trying to figure out why. I guess it’s because I help people in my studio shop, people will come in if they’ve made a mistake or have a problem […]

I thought I’d do a blog post on the ‘T word’.  Now if I say this word to some experienced knitters the response from them make me feel like I’ve just swore at them or I’ve asked about their personal hygiene.  Like I’ve said, “How often do you shower?” Some knitters get a little bit […]

Welcome to part two of the learn to knit course. In this blog post I’m going to write about the knit stitch.  In part one, I wrote about the slipknot and how to cast on, but this time it’s all about the knit stitch. I was thinking about how to do this because I want […]