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Knitting/Expert Profile
Expertise
Anything hand knitting related.Cannot answer machine knitting questions or frame knitting questions. Fiber /history related.
Experience in the area
Professional knitter, finisher for over 25 years. Worked as professional knitting editor, teacher , knitwear designer for over 10 years. I now own a yarn shop.I'll tell you what I'd do. If I don't know , I will tell you that.Background in fiber history/quilts/sewing/spinning as well.
Organizations
Handweavers guild of Boulder, Co.
Publications
Published designer: Knit Style, Cast on, Knitters, INKNITTERS. Edited for McCall's Needleworks Magazine.
Education/Credentials
Self-taught.
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Recent Answers from susan wills
2009-11-07 changing a pattern from knitting straight to knitting in the round:
Just use the 92 stitches and work in the round. Then you won't need to refigure the decreases. If the hat is worked in some stitch pattern, you'll need to refigure things: determine the pattern multiple
2009-11-04 V-Neck Sweater:
It looks like a few stitches at the center front, right below the v neck are either put unto a holder or bound off.Not clear to me what you mean by"when I did the decs. it made the panel solid" Sorry
2009-11-03 inherited yarn & pattern needs:
For determining yardage , measure out about 25 yards.Weigh the 25 yds. ,divide to determine how many yds per oz. Weigh the entire amount you have and divide by the number of yds. per oz. in order to find
2009-11-03 stockingnette stich:
Yes, that is the nature of stockinette stitch; it does not lay flat. If you knit a scarf in st.st. work a few rows first and last in garter stitch (knit every row) Also, for the length of the scarf work
2009-10-30 Checkerboard stitch:
If you work using the stranded technique , then the strands will show on the wrong side only. From your description I think that's what the pattern is having you do. When knitting the wrong side,after
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