Knitters 110 2013
NOVEL knits IN BLACKS WHITE Modern CLASSICS IN BOLD COLORS Pump up the VOLUME WITH shrugs & shawls NEWSWORTHY TRICKS with l-cord, short rows, & Navajo ply KnittingUniverse.com Internal I-cord by Susan Sarabasha Some of you may know of a sewing designing hats, mittens, shawls, I thought about this for a while technique/feature called a welt. You skirts, a sweater, cowls, socks, and and then placed the instructions for may have noticed it on Western- other miscellany. cast-on (adding stitches) and bind style shirts. Usually it is made by While working up Verve — a skirt off (removing stitches) side by side. inserting piping or a contrast fabric in the last issue of /Cn/ffer's— I imag- "Hmmm," I said to myself. "How can in a seam to create a delineation ined a welt would be a nice delin- I do both at once but still maintain between yoke and body. eation between the tiers. I wanted the same number of stitches?" My husband, Jim, has given me to do so without binding off and I worked each separately, not- quite a few knitting books over picking up stitches, but I couldn't ing how they are formed, then the years, and those by Elizabeth figure out exactly how to accom- tried putting them together. After Zimmermann are among my favor- plish the task. several false starts and ripped-out ites. Before her books came into And then... Boing! I-cord was the samples — all accompanied by my life I was a dependent knitter. I answer! So I searched through EZ's exacting notes which were crossed followed each and every instruction books and then on the Internet to out, erased, and replaced — I fig- as best I could — often using the find I-cord cast-on, bind-off, cord- ured out how to make my very own yarn called for, in the same color.
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