KNITTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 8

KNITTING

USEFUL WRINKLES. In the Knitting Section of the Australian Journal these useful hints are given: Always get the wool the instructions recommend; if you don’t, you can’t expect your copy to be as successful as the original garment. And be sure and buy the amount specified. If you have any unbroken skeins left over, your supplier will usually take them back, whereas if you run short it is extremely unlikely that you will be able to match the shade exactly. Try out a little square of the pattern first, using the wool and needles recommended. Pat it out flat and measure your tension. If it isn’t exactly right, change your needles —try a size smaller' if you need to get more stitches to the inch, a size larger if you need fewer stitches. Careless pressing can spoil even good work; perfect pressing can achieve miracles for any piece of knitting, good or bad. Pin you pieces out to shape, cover with a damp cloth and press with a fairly hot iron. Don’t glide the iron, and don’t be too heavy-handed with it—there’s no point in knitting a pattern if you flatten it out completely after. Leave the work pinned out till it is perfectly dry. The best way of dealing with seams is to lay them together flat and sew on the wrong side, taking a stitch with a stitch, and, of course, using the same wool. Stretch the edges slightly as you sew, to get a seam as elastic as the knitting itself.