If you follow my Facebook or Twitter, you may have deduced that I’ve been working on my knitting skillz lately. I tried learning a few years ago, but didn’t get past the basics. I’m determined to get further this time!
I just bought yarn for my first “real” project, this lovely cowl, which is a free pattern from madelinetosh.com:
Last night I knit up a gauge swatch, so today I’m ready to get started with the actual cowl. I just had one worry… how do I estimate the right tail length for casting on 220 stitches? Seems like I could easily mess that up and have to pull out 200 stitches when I run out of tail. So I did some googling and found this tutorial from cocoknits.com:
No more estimating tail length for a long tail CO
Knitters be geniuses!
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This winter I also started to learn knitting (again) and by now I have already finished two projects. Became quite addicting…^^
Thanks for sharing these hints š