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Tips & Techniques tips & techniques 2 designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns Care and attention to detail can ensure that the hand-knit garment you make has a polished, professional look. The Tips & Techniques here will give you clear guidance to create a garment that you will be proud to wear and that will become a staple of your wardrobe. Video tutorials are available on the book's website, tempestknit.com. UNDERSTANDING EASE Ease is the difference between actual is considered negative and zero ease body measurements and the finished respectively and it’s what you find in measurements of the garment. For fitted sweaters. Socks, hats, gloves and example, oversized sweaters generally mitts also have negative ease. It’s what have 4" (10 cm) or more of positive helps them stay in place. ease, meaning the circumference at Regular ease is generally considered to the bust of the sweater is at least 4" be about 2" (5 cm) of positive ease. Of (10 cm) greater than the circumference course, what is considered “regular” of your body at the bust. changes with the fashions and times In knitting patterns, the bust and personal taste. measurement is taken around the fullest part of the breasts. This isn’t the How to use this information when same as a bra size, which is measured choosing the size to knit just underneath the breasts. Have All of the sweater patterns in someone help you to determine your this collection provide the “to fit” accurate bust measurement. The tape measurements which are actual bust measure should be parallel to the floor measurements not including ease. The all the way around and not digging in. “finished measurements” are exactly When selecting the size to knit, take that, the finished measurements of into account how you like your clothes the garment. We’ve also included to fit. Grab a couple of your favourite information on ease and suggested fit sweaters and measure the bust on to help you choose your desired size them as a point of comparison with and fit. your bust measurement. If you’re between sizes, choose the You might be surprised to find that smaller size if you like a form-fitted they are smaller or the same size as look or the larger size if you prefer a your physical measurements. This more generous fit. designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns 3 WORKING WITH HAND-DYED YARNS Working with hand-dyed and hand-painted yarns can be tremendously rewarding. It’s a joy to see the nuances of colour as the yarn passes through your fingers… However, the nature of hand-dyed yarns is such that when knitting with a multicoloured skein of yarn two areas of the same colour can come into contact with one another on subsequent rows causing pools of colour to form. This pooling effect can be desirable or it may just be distracting causing stripes and unattractive blobs of colour. COMPENSATING FOR Work with a double strand POOLING Holding two strands of a lighter weight There are many strategies for working yarn together to create a heavier with hand-dyed yarns to help avoid the weight fabric can also break up the distraction of uneven colour. pooling effect. Third Beach and Haven are both worked in this manner. If there’s a great discrepancy between Alternate Skeins the skeins in a multi-skein project, Working with more than one skein then working with strands from two at a time will break up the pooling separate skeins is a good way to blend effect. However when two skeins are the colour. used, although some pooling will be disturbed, there is still the potential for a striped effect caused by working GAUGE & STITCH COUNT two rows with skein A alternating AFFECT POOLING with two rows of skein B. Using three Sometimes pooling can appear as a skeins further breaks up the pooling spiral of colour in a piece that is knit Example of Alternating Skeins: by working a single row per skein. in the round. The appearance of the alternating between three skeins with a The example here shows a striped spiral will be affected by the number of single row per skein (upper half) minimizes effect at the bottom which was broken stitches (circumference) as well as the the pooling effect that can occur when up higher up using the three skeins gauge at which the stitches are worked. knitting with a single skein of hand-dyed strategy. So different-sized pieces (socks, mitts, yarn (lower half). Projects in this book that employed etc.) will pool differently. the three skein approach are Seaswell, The spiral effect happens when the Stormwatch and the sleeves on amount of yarn required to complete Eventide. the round is slightly more or less than the circumference of the original skein that was hand painted. Each strand 4 designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns in the skein is a single colour repeat. Haven also benefited from this As each subsequent round is knit, the strategy. One of the main colour colours in the repeat stack upon the skeins was lighter than the rest. Since previous rounds. A colourful stripe Haven was also worked by holding two that appears to spiral to the right strands of yarn together throughout happens when the knitted round takes the project, the lighter skein was less yarn than the colour repeat. It blended in by combining it with a will spiral to the left when the knitted second main colour skein. round takes more yarn than the colour Example of gauge affecting pooling: two right Procella mitts knit with slightly repeat. The closer the length of the JOINING A NEW SKEIN different tension result in two very different colour repeat is to the amount of yarn pooling patterns. in a round, the wider the spiral stripe. Blending If either the stitch count or the tension Hand-dyed skeins are one-of-a-kind changes it will affect the amount of even when they are part of the same yarn required to complete the round, dye lot. There can be slight variations subsequently changing the effect of between the skeins affecting the overall the spiral. The Procella hat and mitts appearance when knit up. To minimize worked in Amethyst illustrate this a distinct line between two skeins, principle. try alternating the two for several rows before working entirely with the second skein. There wasn’t much MULTIPLE SKEIN PROJECTS pooling with the Watermark design, Sweaters require several skeins in the but there were differences between same colourway. While all skeins might skeins, which were minimized by be dyed in the same pot, there will alternating. still be variation between and within each skein. For best results, open up Desired Pooling all the skeins and examine the colours. When you have a wonderful pooling Plan out where to use the skeins in the effect happening and it’s time to join project so you’re not left with a jarring a new skein, disaster can loom! The colour difference when joining a new key is to identify the colour repeat skein. We employed this strategy with and then find the same location in the Watermark. The brighter skeins were repeat in the second skein so you can chosen for the bottom of the front and join at the same place in the repeat. back. The deeper skeins were used for Make sure you haven’t reversed the the upper torso front and back. The repeat though! You want the colour sleeves employed a bit of juggling so sequence in the repeat to appear in the raglan shaping matched the deeper the same order in the new skein as in colour of the body. The skein that was the old one. We used these principles least like the others could be used in Example of a multiple skein project: when joining skeins for the Procella hat slight colour differences in hand-dyed the cowl because it is a stand alone and mitts and the Ebb & Flow blanket. skeins are minimized by strategically element in the design. arranging the skeins within the garment. designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns 5 JAPANESE SHORT ROWS There are several ways to work short rows. One of my favourites is the Japanese method. Unlike the more traditional “wrap and turn,” stitches at the turning point are not wrapped. This method uses a smaller loop of yarn to help close up the gap created by turning and working in the other direction. Short rows are a two-part operation. First you work a partial row, then turn and work in the opposite direction. Later the hole caused by turning is closed. MARKING THE TURNING POINT Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Slip 1 stitch purlwise. Work to the turning point; turn. Place a self-locking stitch marker around the working strand of yarn. Snug the marker up against your knitting and work the next stitch, trapping the marker in place. 6 designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns CLOSING THE GAPS Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 On a subsequent row, work up to the gap adjacent to the marked stitch. Grasp the stitch marker and gently pull it to create a small loop of yarn. Place the loop on the left hand needle. Work the next stitch together with the loop of yarn. Remove the marker and continue. designed by Holli Yeoh — TEMPEST — for SweetGeorgia Yarns 7 PICKING UP STITCHES My preferred method for the pick up and knit instruction is to insert the needle into the edge of the knitted fabric, wrap the yarn around the needle and draw a loop through in a knitwise manner.
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