Gosh. I love the TechKnitter.
In the fight to make your knitting look hand-made instead of home-made, the TechKnitting blog is a fabulous weapon of mass destruction on your bad knitting habits.
Two posts to study: Rowing out (uneven rows in stockinette stitch) and uneven columns (uneven columns in stockinette stitch).
Uneven rows make your knitting look like this:
And uneven columns make the knitting look like this:
Read it and weep no more. Well, you’ll be able to stop weeping over your knitting, anyway. (Though if you’re actually weeping over the state of your knitting, perhaps it’s time to get out a bit. Go on. It’ll make you feel lots better.)*
* And what I want to know? Is, did the TechKnitter sit down to make these swatches o’ pain, and did it hurt her to do it? Or give her massive amounts of grief trying to get the knitting to actually be uneven?
Good tips! Another blog to add to my list!
The TechKnitter really does rock!