Search craftmarks

BRIOCHE CROCHET TUTORIAL\012This crochet tutorial shows you how to do brioche-style crochet. Vertical stripes of colour by using front post double crochet alternating with SC in the back loop for each colour.

Knitting tutorial for making non-stranded vertical plaid. This is an alternative to using Duplicate Stitch for adding in vertical stripes.

Tutorial for clockwise and counterclockwise striped Zephyr Stitch. This gives vertical stripes which move as slow waves. Please watch the video for vertical striped stockinette first as it is the basis for this stitch.

Striping is really easy and uses two or three strands at the same time to form the loops. The trick is to count the pegs on the loom to determine the striping effect. You will wrap loom with select pegs with first colour... Secure last wrapped peg. Then wrap the loom with the second colour with the pegs that were skipped, secure last wrapped peg. Then knit the entire loom all at the same time.

This webapp enables one to inject randomosity into one's multicoloured projects; rather than doing, say, one row of Colour A, one row of Colour B, one row of Colour C, this helps one mix them up a bit. You choose from a palette of colours (not a lot, but a fair amount), put in the row-thickness one accepts, and it will generate a random pattern (e.g 4 rows of A, 2 rows of C, 1 row of B, 6 rows of C etc). If you don't like the pattern, refresh the result and it will give you a new one.

Pretty nifty.

Loom knitting vertical stripes in double-knit. This is an interesting method, because the stripes are between the knit stitches.