Knitting Blog

Guest blogger Alex Capshaw-Taylor attended world-famous sock-designer Cookie A.’s workshop, and, in a three-part guest blog series, shares with us her biggest takeaways. Here, what she learned about intuitively reading knitting charts.

Many people forget to increase on the left side of their knitting when doing the gusset for the Fleegle Heel. All of a sudden you’ve got 19 stitches on one toe-up Fleegle heel and 20 on the other.
It usually happens right when you start saying,”Yeah, I think I’ve got the hang of it!” You start getting in the groove, and you forget to increase. Here’s how to recognize it, and how to fix it.

Nice shoulders! Ha ha. The 3-needle bind-off makes a strong and secure seam for sweater shoulders and anywhere you need to seam up knitting. Handling 3 needles at once is the only thing that makes it a bit tricky. Here I show you how to do it easily.