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Confident Knitting: Folded Hem Joy!
Confident Knitting features a new project paired with a new technique every month. Let’s get started with an elegant, tidy technique: the folded hem. (Bonus: it features some of our very favorite yarn, Zauberball and Zauberball Crazy.)
This elegant technique opens up a world of hem, cuff, and edge treatments beyond ribbing. Jen’s video at the top of the page shows you how to work it step by step, starting with a favorite provisional cast-on.
The Design of the Month?
Flux Handwarmers! Martina Behm’s charming design showcases the folded hem at the cuffs.
Folded hems can also add a bit of elegance to socks, hats, and sleeves, and to the hem of a sweater. As Jen notes, “You will find yourself looking at projects and wanting to experiment!”
With Jen’s tutorials, you can experiment with complete confidence.
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Jen and Jim Arnall-Culliford have assembled everything you need to join the fun right here. The conversation in the Arnall-Culliford Techniques Knitalong Hub is never ending and full of help.
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Brilliant, thank you.
I love the way a folded hem looks with a picot edging on cuff-down socks. I don’t do that nearly often enough.
Great tutorial. The video and the description was well done. Thank you. Love the fold down edge.
Do I see SEVEN double points? Thats enough to scare me back to bed.
Hehehe! I used double-pointed needles in the photo tutorial, but in the video you’ll see I’m working on circulars so there are fewer needles to juggle. I hope it helps to see the different options. 🙂 And yes, it is a little like wrestling a hedgehog with double-points, but I can’t help but love them nonetheless… 😀
I love a folded hem! Excellent instructions.
Love it – saved too!
Love it — can’t wait for the downloads and book!! Very excited for the hand dyed options — I pick out my wines based on their clever names 🙂 — therefore I think these hand dyed options will be great! ….Our four hand-dyers are Dusty Dimples, Fab Funky Fibres, Old Maiden Aunt and Third Vault Yarns 🙂
Oooh, I want to try these mitts! One of my favorite hats is Leni by Isabell Kraemer, mostly because of its folded him. I pulled her pattern out just last month to add the folded hem instructions on to another hat!
Great fun – turned out beautifully. Thanks to Jen Arnall-Culliford for the wonderful video tutorials and great support!
Fantastic, I worked baby sweaters from Dale Garn for years and continue to bring out my old copies, but I love this technique. Thx
Suz
I like to leave a spare needle in the live sts after the provisional cast on and knit up with new needle. That way when it’s time to join the hem to the body I just pull out the crocheted waste yarn and the live sts are already on a needle ready to work. No picking up required.
I happily followed along but was lost when the magic loop method showed up. Hard to follow along for me at that point. I think it was such a small project and since I donor we use magic loop, I just felt lost.