By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 06 May 2004 04:01:00 +0000

Perfect cast offs every time!
This a something I learned on the sock knitter’s list. It sounds unorthodox but it works and it’s easy. Casting off loosely enough is almost impossible in many cases and often looks terrible. Instead of try ing bigger needles or pretending you’ve taken valium, chain one (or make a loop as if you were chaining one) every so often. For me it works to chain one every four stitches but I don’t think you’d want to do it much more often. The extra yarn is absorbed into the stitches below. I learned this origianlly to make a stretchy bind off for toe up socks and now I just do it routinely.

By: sue

sue — Wed, 05 May 2004 02:45:40 +0000

Mary maxims sell’s these needles that are supposed to be good for arthritis.I’ve never used them but they say their good.Maybe you can try the mary maxims in the states,if not maybe I could get them for you ;0)

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