I’ve been trying to find a good way to add seamless cabled cuffs to sweater sleeves instead of just knitting ribbing but I wasn’t having much luck figuring it out until now. This is exactly the type of technique I’ve been searching for! Thank you so much for this video!
I think this is an important topic, specifically the set up for correct placement of the graft and ending up with the working yarn in the right place. I really wanted to use this technique to help adjust my (sticky woollen yarn) tension as I go and also take another step in my ability to read my knitting, especially within purl stitches and transitions from purl to knit or knit to purl. I've tussled with rs/ws for days now, on paper & swatching and I think you need a minimum of 4 quiet (without cable crosses) rows to make this particular graft work? I'd love to be wrong... the stitch pattern I'm working with has only 3 quiet rows, 2 ws & 1rs. I had started the first of 2 cabled ankle warmers before I found this video, I grafted off 2 needles but had several challenges: my yarn ended up on the left, so I had to work on the wrong side, this helped to get my set up steps jumbled- I think - anyhow I somehow ended up with a half stitch jog, even though I was joining top to bottom. Nobody will ever spot the join, but I'd like to have an easier time of it next time.
Was looking for a video on how to graft a lace cowl...I’m going to try this and hope I can see the path of YO, KTOG, and SSK’s--on a swatch first, of course. I have a feeling it’s not going to go well, but figuring it out is ALL (or most) of the fun. Thanks for another detailed tutorial for this old brain!! Rox Rocks!😂✌🏻💛
Grafting always looks so simple when some who knows what they are doing performs it. I can manage st-st but purl and garter throw me every time. Thank you for this I'll go and make a play swatch something which in honesty I've never done. I guess I'm a lazy knitter when it comes to that I just jump right into whatever it is I'm making and as my tension for the most part is pretty much on gauge give or take a st I just go with it. But swatching here I come
I have a question and I'm not even sure how to ask it. I have knitted a sweater for my son. The pattern didn't have pockets, but he wanted pockets. So I knitted a row where the pocket would go with waste yarn, and then continued knitting down the front, but with 2 x2 ribbing for an inch or so. Then I went back, took out the waste yarn, knitted the pocket lining. And I'm left with the top edge of 2x2 ribbing live stitches on a dpn. I would like to extend the ribbing a couple of rows up, but if I turn it upside down and knit from those live stitches, I get the half-stitch offset. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this, but I can't figure out what it's called. I guess I don't really understand "provisional" cast-ons, because I've never used one provisionally. If I cast on to another dpn and knit a couple of rows of 2x2 ribbing, how then do I attach that to the top of the ribbing on the front of the sweater, as they will each have been knitted in the opposite direction? Hmm, I think, if I were to cast on stitches on a dpn and do two or three rows of ribbing, leave that on a dpn, cut a long tail, then I could graft those live stitches onto the ones on the top of the pocket, which are sitting on a dpn? I'm sorry if this is just as clear as mud, but I've watched several RUclipss on provisional cast-ons and just can't figure out how to use one in this situation. And I guess I can't even figure out how to describe it to search for an answer. I think this is covered in the Big Book of Knitting, but my copy is misplaced! And I really want to finish this sweater. : (
Your idea to cast on and knit the ribbing, then join to the live sts should work perfectly. A provisional cast on is a way to start knitting without producing an edge, so that you can return to that starting point and recapture the live sts to work them in another way: graft them to another set of live sts, knit them in the opposite direction, or simply bind them off.
So interesting !!! Please, do you think it will work when seaming / grafting sleeves ? I knit a lot of baby jackets; one of the models I often do is like a "opened" t-shirt: start with a simples 2/2 rib for the body and until the underarm, then increase stitches for the sleeves, knit them in garter stitch, when completed decrease the same number of stiches and continue again in 2/2 ribbing till the end. When the jacket is finished and is time to sow it I usually start at the bottom a do a continuous seam, from the bottom all the way to the cuff. I have no difficulty when seaming the body, but when I reach the sleeves .... well, they're OK, but not perfect... and sometimes I end up with a somewhat bulky seam that is not good for newborn babies. I'm thinking for the sleeves, I could do a provisional cast on and a bind off both with scrape yarn, and then use this technique to graft them. Do you think it will work ? If not, do you have any suggestion on how to remedy my 'problem' ? Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.
You should be able to do the graft this way, but if you're comfortable grafting off the needles, it's fairly straightforward to do so in garter stitch. You can check the videos from the past couple of weeks to find the one on grafting garter stitch.
Roxanne Richardson Thank you, I have checked. I missed that one... Sorry to keep bothering you, but I am still in doubt, as in order to graft as you explained in the video I have to have livre stitches; when I finish kniting, and before sowing, the jacket looks like a cross with a hole on the middle, the neckline. Of course I can put the stitches in the bind of side in an auxiliary needle or a pin, but what about the cast on side ? Thank you again for your help.
I just tried this technique on a swatch and the end result is very nice! Thank you for demonstrating it!!
You are awesome, Ms. Roxanne. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us.
I’ve been trying to find a good way to add seamless cabled cuffs to sweater sleeves instead of just knitting ribbing but I wasn’t having much luck figuring it out until now. This is exactly the type of technique I’ve been searching for! Thank you so much for this video!
You are very welcome! Good luck using the technique in a future project!
Wow, my head is spinning. Great job
Thanks 😊.. I was using a lifeline which wasn't all that easy .. this is awesome from awesome you 🎶🎵
Another great tip, clearly shown and explained
I think this is an important topic, specifically the set up for correct placement of the graft and ending up with the working yarn in the right place. I really wanted to use this technique to help adjust my (sticky woollen yarn) tension as I go and also take another step in my ability to read my knitting, especially within purl stitches and transitions from purl to knit or knit to purl. I've tussled with rs/ws for days now, on paper & swatching and I think you need a minimum of 4 quiet (without cable crosses) rows to make this particular graft work? I'd love to be wrong... the stitch pattern I'm working with has only 3 quiet rows, 2 ws & 1rs.
I had started the first of 2 cabled ankle warmers before I found this video, I grafted off 2 needles but had several challenges: my yarn ended up on the left, so I had to work on the wrong side, this helped to get my set up steps jumbled- I think - anyhow I somehow ended up with a half stitch jog, even though I was joining top to bottom.
Nobody will ever spot the join, but I'd like to have an easier time of it next time.
Thank you Roxanne, you're the best! ❤️
Was looking for a video on how to graft a lace cowl...I’m going to try this and hope I can see the path of YO, KTOG, and SSK’s--on a swatch first, of course. I have a feeling it’s not going to go well, but figuring it out is ALL (or most) of the fun. Thanks for another detailed tutorial for this old brain!! Rox Rocks!😂✌🏻💛
Grafting always looks so simple when some who knows what they are doing performs it. I can manage st-st but purl and garter throw me every time. Thank you for this I'll go and make a play swatch something which in honesty I've never done.
I guess I'm a lazy knitter when it comes to that I just jump right into whatever it is I'm making and as my tension for the most part is pretty much on gauge give or take a st I just go with it. But swatching here I come
Very interesting technique! Thanks for sharing!
Such An Important Video. Thank You ❤️️
I have a question and I'm not even sure how to ask it. I have knitted a sweater for my son. The pattern didn't have pockets, but he wanted pockets. So I knitted a row where the pocket would go with waste yarn, and then continued knitting down the front, but with 2 x2 ribbing for an inch or so. Then I went back, took out the waste yarn, knitted the pocket lining. And I'm left with the top edge of 2x2 ribbing live stitches on a dpn. I would like to extend the ribbing a couple of rows up, but if I turn it upside down and knit from those live stitches, I get the half-stitch offset.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this, but I can't figure out what it's called. I guess I don't really understand "provisional" cast-ons, because I've never used one provisionally. If I cast on to another dpn and knit a couple of rows of 2x2 ribbing, how then do I attach that to the top of the ribbing on the front of the sweater, as they will each have been knitted in the opposite direction?
Hmm, I think, if I were to cast on stitches on a dpn and do two or three rows of ribbing, leave that on a dpn, cut a long tail, then I could graft those live stitches onto the ones on the top of the pocket, which are sitting on a dpn?
I'm sorry if this is just as clear as mud, but I've watched several RUclipss on provisional cast-ons and just can't figure out how to use one in this situation. And I guess I can't even figure out how to describe it to search for an answer. I think this is covered in the Big Book of Knitting, but my copy is misplaced! And I really want to finish this sweater. : (
Your idea to cast on and knit the ribbing, then join to the live sts should work perfectly. A provisional cast on is a way to start knitting without producing an edge, so that you can return to that starting point and recapture the live sts to work them in another way: graft them to another set of live sts, knit them in the opposite direction, or simply bind them off.
Is this what you use for the 1898 hat?
I wish I had watched this before I knit my 1896 hats.
Wow - this is expert level. You explained it very well. Should your waste yarn be exact size as your other yarn?
It's best to have a solid color, smooth contrast yarn for the waste yarn, in the same weight as the project yarn. Doesn't have to be the same fiber.
Good information, but this is going to take a couple of viewings and practice to get it down.
Thanks for sharing :)
Yes, it does take practice!
So interesting !!!
Please, do you think it will work when seaming / grafting sleeves ?
I knit a lot of baby jackets; one of the models I often do is like a "opened" t-shirt: start with a simples 2/2 rib for the body and until the underarm, then increase stitches for the sleeves, knit them in garter stitch, when completed decrease the same number of stiches and continue again in 2/2 ribbing till the end.
When the jacket is finished and is time to sow it I usually start at the bottom a do a continuous seam, from the bottom all the way to the cuff.
I have no difficulty when seaming the body, but when I reach the sleeves .... well, they're OK, but not perfect... and sometimes I end up with a somewhat bulky seam that is not good for newborn babies.
I'm thinking for the sleeves, I could do a provisional cast on and a bind off both with scrape yarn, and then use this technique to graft them.
Do you think it will work ? If not, do you have any suggestion on how to remedy my 'problem' ?
Thanks in advance for any help you might give me.
You should be able to do the graft this way, but if you're comfortable grafting off the needles, it's fairly straightforward to do so in garter stitch. You can check the videos from the past couple of weeks to find the one on grafting garter stitch.
Roxanne Richardson
Thank you, I have checked. I missed that one...
Sorry to keep bothering you, but I am still in doubt, as in order to graft as you explained in the video I have to have livre stitches; when I finish kniting, and before sowing, the jacket looks like a cross with a hole on the middle, the neckline.
Of course I can put the stitches in the bind of side in an auxiliary needle or a pin, but what about the cast on side ?
Thank you again for your help.
You would use a provisional cast on, so you would have live stitches available at the CO edge.
Thank you! What's that you are wearing?
Hmmm...I don't even remember...oh! That purple lace top? Let's see, a look at my projects notebook says it's Jordan by Wendy Bernard.
Thanks - it looks cool and comfortable. We are having 90+ degree highs and 70+ degree lows this time of year.
Hi Roxanne, This video seems to have some problems. Not with your content but the video speeds up and then finishes.