Northtipton's Tips and Techniques
We hope this page will be a place we can all share that discovery or experiment or learning experience. Below are some of the ideas we've found, and we'll keep adding to them. If you have others you'd share, please send them to us! Share the ones here, but please inform others where you got it.
Includes tips on shoulder seams, putting afghan panels together on the machine, making a single scalloped rib, buying cotton yarn, and counteracting biasing in cotton yarn
Includes tips on keeping skirts from seating out, steaming or seaming first, working with mercerized cotton, machine embroidery and the garter carriage, a duplicate stitch idea and dyeing with koolaid.
Includes how to do blister jacquard, binding off on a single-thickness rib neck, more about using point cams on the garter carriage, a spring sweater idea continued from Tips Set 2, and Faux Cables.
Some great ideas for summer: a shawl pattern, appliqued flowers, a fairisle pattern with several possibilities, and some ways to make those shoulder seams sturdy.
A collection of favorite tips and techniques
A collection of lace-making tips
A collection of tips about using Cast-On or Shortrowing Rags
A collection of tips about Ravel Cord
A collection of tips about Lace and Chenille
Working with and Designing with Lace, Kathleen Kinder
Working with the Magic Formula, Kathleen Kinder
Working with Double Jacquard, Kathleen Kinder
Garter Carriage Tips, Lona Wilson
Replacing the Sponge on the 350, 390, and LK 150, Doris Dotterer
Using the Garter Bar
Knitted Edgings, Nancy Russell of Snug Harbor Artisans
Garter Carriage Buttonholes and Double Jacquard Ideas, shared ~ Carol LeBlanc