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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Why can't I make a Buttonhole in my Knitting?
I've been knitting and unraveling and knitting some more. I have two projects on the go. Actually I have the wool and needles for two projects but I've only cast on the stitches for the top down cardi. So far it has been easy, although it takes me so long what with all the unraveling and trying to understand knitting gobblygook, cryptic acronyms like yo and ssk had me stumped. I thought yo might mean yarnover but yarn over what? The pattern defined ssk as standing for slip slip knit. Ok slip what? a quick trip to google, ten billion hits and half an hour later I had my answer. It is a way to make a button hole but as far as I can see there is no hole? So I whined to Heather about not understanding how to make button holes. She admitted to not having much success either and told me about making simple button holes with a yarnover, exactly what I've been trying to do? Hmmnn guess I will have to try again.
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Okay - to ssk:
From left needle, slip one stitch to right, and then another stitch.
Then, put the tip of the left needle through the front of the two stitches on the right needle (front meaning the part of it facing you), and knit those two stitches together. This will give you a left-leaning decrease. The standard K2 tog (knit two together) will give you a right leaning decrease.
To make a buttonhole, I usually just do a K2tog decrease and then a yarnover right after it to make a small opening.
Vertical button holes that are more than one row high still elude me. :)
Oh, and yarn over -
If you're knitting a stitch, to yarn over, take the yarn from the back, lay it over the knitting (between the two needles) and then proceed to the next stitch. What you're doing is wrapping the yarn around the right hand needle once to create a new stitch. It leaves a hole, so YO's are useful for lace and for buttonholes.
I wish you lived nearby...it would be much easier to show you all of this!
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