Introducing: Ask Patty
Questions? Our new columnist, Patty Lyons, brings advice and counsel for the knitterly problems that plague us.
Questions? Our new columnist, Patty Lyons, brings advice and counsel for the knitterly problems that plague us.
A sampler of light bulb moments from recent Ask Patty columns.
You asked, Patty pondered: The Single Row Stripe.
Flip the script on the usual method for the smoothest transitions.
Understand twist and you won’t feel like shouting.
Call it the Totally Possible Burger of knitting tricks.
Do you know where your stitches are going to? Do you like the things that grafts are showing you?
Nine yarn shops and one very happy knitter.
Patty shares rules of thumb for combining yarns, and tackles two puzzlers about picking up stitches in a contrasting color.
Solving pesky problems when changing colors.
Debugging something that has bugged knitters forever: that giant stitch at the end of your bind-off.