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Heather Storta
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Добавлен 23 фев 2014
Hi! I'm Heather, a certified Master Knitter, Knitting Instructor, and Tech Editor. I also design knitwear, but my passion is teaching!
My focus here and in all of my classes is to give knitters the skills and confidence needed to perfect their knitting and to knit complex or intimidating techniques without fear!
You can learn more at my website: www.heatherstorta.com
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My focus here and in all of my classes is to give knitters the skills and confidence needed to perfect their knitting and to knit complex or intimidating techniques without fear!
You can learn more at my website: www.heatherstorta.com
New videos are posted every Friday (and sometimes more often!)
Monthly Livestream (Knit with me and Q&A) - view livestream tab to see when the next one is scheduled!
Subscribe to my newsletter to find out about my upcoming designs, teaching appearances, and more.
mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup
I'm happy to take suggestions for techniques you'd like to see me cover! Leave a comment on a video or in my community tab, or send me a message via my website!
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
HOW TO: Decorative Three Needle Bind Off
How to work a decorative three needle bind off -- this produces a nice visible seam on the right side of the fabric!
Have you used this seam before?
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Have you used this seam before?
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© Heather Storta
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HOW TO: Fold-over Picot Hem in Knitting
Просмотров 20614 дней назад
How to work a fold-over picot hem in knitting. It's pretty easy! The trickiest bit is joining at the fold. Have you worked this sort of hem before? Let me know! Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●I...
HOW TO: Counting Cable Rows
Просмотров 31121 день назад
Counting cable rows in knitting can be tricky. I show you how to count them in this video! Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe, and consider buying me a coff...
Demystifying Short Row Toes!: Start to Finish Tutorial for Toe-Up Socks
Просмотров 366Месяц назад
How to knit a short-row toe for a toe-up sock from start to finish! I also talk briefly about how to convert this for a cuff-down sock. Here's a blog post with step by step directions: wp.me/pd1ivl-4jY Have you used these toes before? Let me know what you think! Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! ...
HOW TO: Knitting Stitch Pattern -- Daisy Stitch
Просмотров 317Месяц назад
How to work the stitch pattern called Daisy Stitch. This is similar to the Trinity Stitch, but produces a completely different fabric. Four row repeat, multiple of four stitches plus one extra. See my blog post for more details! wp.me/pd1ivl-4iG Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! hea...
HOW TO: Cabled Decreases
Просмотров 1832 месяца назад
Cabled decreases are a way to decrease rapidly. They are used in "full-fashioned" shoulder shaping, but can be found elsewhere as well. Have you used these before? Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup...
HOW TO: Centered Picot Bind Off
Просмотров 1672 месяца назад
How to work the picot bind off with the picots centered above a stitch instead of in between stitches! Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe, and consider buyi...
Stitch Pattern: Moss Stitch
Просмотров 1822 месяца назад
How to work the knitted Moss Stitch (US term) or Double Moss Stitch (UK term). Two stitch multiple (same as seed stitch), 4 row repeat. Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, pl...
HOW TO: Star Stitches
Просмотров 2192 месяца назад
How to work the knitted star stitch. These are often seen in lace knitting. Often abbreviated as 3-into-3, or 3-into-5, or 5-into-7, or 3-into-9, etc. It's always a combination or odd numbers. (There is an exception with a 2-into-2, that is performed a bit differently...I'll have a video on that soon!) These are a stitch type, not a stitch pattern (there are a couple stitch patterns out there t...
HOW TO: Cluster Stitches
Просмотров 2142 месяца назад
Cluster stitches are a great way to add smocking or texture to your knitted fabric. Have you used these before? Let me know! Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, please subscr...
What is it?? | Cable Flare
Просмотров 2993 месяца назад
I cover the basics of cable flare in this video, and how to compensate for it in your fabric. Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe, and consider buying me a c...
HOW TO: KSP and SKP
Просмотров 3573 месяца назад
These are less commonly seen single decreases that are substitutes for ssk and k2tog. Have you seen these before? Let's Connect! ●Teaching, Tech Editing, Inquiries: heatherstorta.com/contact-me/ ●Website: heatherstorta.com ●Follow me on Instagram! heatherstorta ●Subscribe to my newsletter! mailchi.mp/700456050202/newsletter-signup ●If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe, and co...
HOW TO: Stitch Pattern -- Trinity Stitch
Просмотров 2273 месяца назад
HOW TO: Stitch Pattern Trinity Stitch
BOBBLES! | Four Ways to Work Bobbles
Просмотров 3734 месяца назад
BOBBLES! | Four Ways to Work Bobbles
HOW TO: Stitch Pattern -- Two-Color Thorn Stitch
Просмотров 5864 месяца назад
HOW TO: Stitch Pattern Two-Color Thorn Stitch
Let's Compare! | Intarsia vs Stranded Colorwork vs Mosaic Knitting
Просмотров 7255 месяцев назад
Let's Compare! | Intarsia vs Stranded Colorwork vs Mosaic Knitting
Book Review! The Sock Knitting Bible
Просмотров 6285 месяцев назад
Book Review! The Sock Knitting Bible
New Needles! | Chiaogoo Forte 2.0 Unboxing
Просмотров 4365 месяцев назад
New Needles! | Chiaogoo Forte 2.0 Unboxing
Knitting NO-NO! | Slipped stitch edges
Просмотров 8855 месяцев назад
Knitting NO-NO! | Slipped stitch edges
Three Minute Techniques: P2TOG and SSP
Просмотров 2406 месяцев назад
Three Minute Techniques: P2TOG and SSP
Time for some MATH! | Knitting's Magic Formula
Просмотров 6546 месяцев назад
Time for some MATH! | Knitting's Magic Formula
Did You Know?? | Five Things About Yarnovers
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Did You Know?? | Five Things About Yarnovers
Three Minute Techniques: K2tog and SSK
Просмотров 2897 месяцев назад
Three Minute Techniques: K2tog and SSK
Thankyou so much for this video - like many others, I have knitted my entire life without coming across this method of increasing @
You're welcome! It isn't seen often at all - only when you want that super twisted stitch on the next row (without having to manipulate the stitch a bunch to get it twisted.) I should refilm the video with a better sample so that you can actually see what the stitch looks like!
Thanks so much for this demonstration. It's much easier than the Kitchener stitch which was causing me major stress. You are a life saver! :)
You are so welcome! It is so much easier to work it from the wrong side!!
Is this knitting flat or circular? TY
Mosaic can be worked in either flat or in the round! This video applies to working it flat, though. If you were to work it in the round, you'd read *all* chart rows from right to left, reading each chart line twice (so you work 2 rounds of each color before switching). When working in garter, but in the round, you'd knit the stitches worked in the first round, then need to purl the worked stitches in the second round. (All slipped sts will be slipped with the yarn in the back.)
Great tutorial. Now I know why my attempts were problematic. A thought - this would look really good in a contrast colour - what would be the best way of going about that?
Great idea! I think if you just join your new color for the bind off and use it as you bind off, it'll be the visible chain along the seam!
Thanks for the tutorial. It looks like a nice finish. 😊
You’re welcome 😊
THANK YOU! This worked so fantastic to finish my 1st sweater neck!
Wonderful!
Thank you so much for this super video! This is the most helpful video about a colour dominance for me⭐⭐⭐
Glad it was helpful!
wow, how nifty. I am going to try this.
Have fun!
I think this method is much better for shoulder seams in particular. Clever way to avoid the bulky dip😀
Yes! It reduces the bulk quite a lot! Now, keep in mind, it seems to be a bit less firm/sturdy of a seam, so if you need structure, it might not fit the bill so well.
I like that! One question: would passing both stitches over work, or must they be passed one at a time?
Also my question.
I think you could pass them both at the same time, sure! -- I tend to do them one at a time to avoid them getting twisted and not lying nice and flat how they should. But whatever works best for you is perfectly fine - doing them together would probably be faster!
@@HeatherStortathank you
Oh I’ll have to give this a go! Thanks for the tutorial.
OMG…… I’ve never heard this “same off, opposite on” before!!!!!! SO simple now. Thank you ❤️
You're so welcome!
I’m learning to knit socks and I want to learn Mosaic.
Have fun! Socks are fun and mosaic knitting is fun too!
Thank you, I am starting my first toe up sock and this has helped so much.
Wonderful!
Very helpful. I love that you are a thrower.
Glad it was helpful! :-)
I hold both yarns in the right hand and use the drop method rather than winding the yarn around this finger or that. This means I simply pick up the next color in order while letting the other color drop, making sure I keep the dominant color beneath the background color as I'm knitting. This method should come naturally to English style knitters, because no stitches are knit continental style. The back of the work looks tidy, with the yarn moving in horizontal pairs with the dominant color below the background color.
Yes, as long as you keep the desired dominant color under (or to the left) of the other color, and they don't reverse positions mid-row, then it doesn't matter how you hold your yarns! I hold both in my right hand, usually, but depending on the colorwork pattern I may resort to the drop method.
Yes I have had cable flare and did not know there was anything to be done about it! Great!
Glad to help!!
Love the flat non-curling hem!
Isn't it nice? I really like it as a finished hem.
Can this CUTE method be used in the round?
Yes!! There will be a slight jog at the beginning/end of the round, but you can definitely do it in the round!
Do you have a Video of the pontoon toe?
No, I don't have one of that one yet, I have it my queue to film a bunch of the sock toe methods separately, I just haven't gotten them done yet!
If I'm at the bottom of a top down, how do I cast off without having that cast on edge?
You'll be joining your live stitches to the purl bumps on the WS at the proper row for the fold that you want, and then binding off as you go along (like a 3 needle bind off). It can be trickier to find the purl bumps to join to since you don't have that handy contrast yarn to spot them with - it's much easier to get off by a row here and there and not stay in the same row. You could try running a lifeline in the first row of the hem to try to help spot those. You could also cut your working yarn, leaving a long tail, and sew the live stitches down, by seaming to the purl bumps instead. Kind of like a graft, but to the body of the fabric on the WS instead of at the edge.
@@HeatherStorta thank you very much...great ideas
The color was a very helpful way to explain counting cables. Love it!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks. I used this for the top of my kilt hose. I wish I had had your video when I was doing those. Questions. 1. How does one sew down live stitches like if you for some reason had live stitches to sew. I have seen a few patterns wanting you to sew down live stitches. See below. 2. How would I do this I used this for toe up kilt hose so I would not have a cast on to sew down but probably live stitches? Thanks
Yes, you can do the same thing toe-up with live stitches. It's a slightly different procedure -- but you'd do the same knitting rows - the same number of plain before and after the picot, and then you'll be working the live stitches to the purl bumps in the proper row for the folded hem, then binding off as you go (so, very much like a 3 needle bind off). It can be trickier to find the purl bumps to join to since you don't have that handy contrast yarn to spot them with, however! You could also cut your working yarn (leaving a long tail) and sew the live stitches down, by seaming to the purl bumps, instead as well. Kind of like a graft, but to the body of the fabric on the WS instead of at the edge.
When I learned this one it was called a dog tooth. I used it for making fingers and toes on a knit toy. Very cute!
Ah, I didn't know that name for it -- that's a clever use of it!
Das habe ich so noch nicht gestrickt. Sieht sehr gut aus. Danke.
You're welcome!
This will really look beautiful on hem and cuff’s also. But if I’m doing top down will it show ? Can I stitch it? Did you ever tried?
Yes, you can do it top down! It can be harder to spot the stitches to join to, but you'd join your live stitches to the purl bumps in the fold, and then bind off as you go.
Wowza!!! Thank you! Never tried using a bobby pin before!
Happy to help!
Very helpful, thank you! I must mention that you are the only person I’ve seen who holds your yarn the same way I do. 😊
Oh, that's fun! It's so interesting seeing how knitters hold and tension their yarn, because everyone has a different method!
Thank you! I always get confused both on which row to start counting on and whether to count the stitches on my needle, i think i will remember now
You are so welcome!
Wow super helpful! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
The colour coding was really useful. Thank you
You're welcome!!
Thank you! It isnt as confusing now. Especially knowing Fair Isle is a subset or colorwork.
Glad it was helpful!
Genius! Thank you!
You're welcome!
I need more information than that . I'm making socks for family and they live in another state . No way to get sizes . Help please. ( Mens Sizes )
You kind of still need an idea of foot circumference. Or you could guess, based on the foot size charts here. Then you could figure out your stitch count based on your gauge, and make a sock long enough for the longest foot length plus desired leg/cuff height, plus maybe 2 extra inches to account for the sock stretching over the heel. www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/foot-size-charts
Which type is the most comfortable?
I think that likely depends on your foot anatomy and what you consider comfortable -- for folks that don't like the feel of seams or ridges, then one of the ones that has minimal ridges on the inside from decrease lines might be more comfortable (so, for example, one of the rounded versions with staggered decreases.) If you have a wide and flat toe box, then a wedge shape works well, but if you have a much longer big toe then that shape may not be as comfortable (an "anatomical" toe shape would be better in that case.) Every foot is different!
i love her so much
is your gauge smaller on mosiac than stockinnette?
It can tend to be, yes - since there are slipped stitches involved, and those can bring the stitch gauge tighter. It depends on the knitter, though!
Can you demonstrate increases and decreases with this pattern?
I can add that to my video queue, yes! -- in the meantime, it would be very similar to increasing and decreasing in trinity stitch -- if you're a member of TKGA, I have an article on Trinity stitch in the Summer 2024 issue of Cast On magazine-- and I go in depth on increasing and decreasing in that stitch pattern!
@@HeatherStorta thank you very much! I will join so that I can read your article. I’d really like to up my knitting game!
Oh, there is so much great information in Cast On and TKGA as a whole, you will love it!
Love your video! Do you find that trying on this sample heels helps you get a sense of what heel is best for your foot? I'm sure it's probably not as informative as walking around in a full sock, but I'm wondering if someone who is searching for the best heel for their foot could try making these little samples and get some guidance.
Yes, I think they would be helpful! You could at least see how it fits your heel and get a better idea if it will work for you.
Thanks for this. I have been dreading learning this but I need it for a project. Very clear and simple instruction!
You're welcome! Don't dread it -- it isn't too complicated once you understand what's happening! Biggest issue I have when working it is remembering that those stitches aren't "real" stitches and need to be *not* worked in the stitch pattern accidentally, lol.
Heather, Thanks very much for demystifying this. I have not tried this technique before. I appreciate that the demonstration used worsted weight yarn as it made it easier to follow. I will watch it again to create a sample. Thanks again. Great tutorial!
You are so welcome!
Certainly a different approach, however, those loose threads on the inside would bother me.
From the wrap and turn short rows? They'd be less loose in a more appropriate gauge (I was working loosely for the video) -- but you could also not pick up the wraps and that would help eliminate strands, or use a different short row method all together. It's not a toe for everyone, but it's nice to have options!
Excellent tutorial! I’ve used Judy’s magic cast on on two needles- because that gives me both sides ready. It’s great to have another approach. Thank you ! (As for cuff down, I like having the graft on top. I might be in the minority.)
I'm glad you liked it! Judy's Magic instead of (or as the) provisional is a great option with this toe, since you have those live stitches ready to go for when you work in the round! (I, too, like the graft at the top of the toe with the cuff-down variation. And if you use a different color yarn for the graft like in the thumbnail, then you have an easy spot to see to undo the toe if it gets holes!)
@@HeatherStorta oh I like the idea of different yarn for grafting. Thanks again
Great tutorial. Just what I was looking for. Thank you🤗
You're welcome!
Does the pattern usually tell you how many pick up stitches. I am not quite sure where you came up with the number 5.
Yes, it will usually tell you how many stitches. Typically it's an odd number of stitches --so it'd be 3, 5, or 7 etc. But not always.
Can this be done in the round by knitting instead of purling every other row? Thinking of making a sweater.
Yes, it can!
Can the sweet tomato heel be worked as an afterthought heel?
No, not really. Since you have to work rounds all the way around the circumference in between each wedge, that's not possible with the way the afterthought heel works. You *could* do a "plain" short row heel though, by working on only half the live stitches and then grafting the heel closed to the other half when done. But any heel method that adds in full rounds in between working back and forth won't work with an afterthought heel.
@@HeatherStorta thanks! I love afterthought heels and I am looking for different heel options just for fun.
Thanks for the guidance! Very helpful. I'm knitting my first cardigan - buttonholes are the last hurdle to jump
Happy to help! You can do it!
Thanks for teaching me something new.
My pleasure