Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Perfect seams

I am getting ready to finish my iPad mini cover this morning....so I went on line to look for some ideas of how to make the side seams look especially good.  Here are some of the links that I looked at:


This first one made a gorgeous finish for a sweater.  I'll give it a try before I look more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuTlNae-EtM

The pattern did not lend itself to the beautiful join that is illustrated in the above link.  I am going to think about the possibility of crocheting it together to get a pretty finish.

http://www.crochettoday.com/how-to/how-seam-together-crochet

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2Bp0wOeyo


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Joining when knitting in the round

I found the following for Diane Foreman last night and wanted to make it easy to find again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-b8hLdPiQU&noredirect=1

I thought that the lady did a good job of explaining how to join in the round.