Annaplexis
@annaplexis.bsky.social
Author of Learn to Knit in 50 Squares Tutorials and Patterns 🧶🧶🧶
Free knitting course on www.annaplexis.eu
Free knitting course on www.annaplexis.eu
How do you get a stretchy and invisible folded hem on a top down sweater? 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
Recently, I saw this method of grafting the hem together, and I’m not going back! The result is invisible and as stretchy as the rest of your knitted fabric.
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Recently, I saw this method of grafting the hem together, and I’m not going back! The result is invisible and as stretchy as the rest of your knitted fabric.
#knitting
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How do you get a stretchy and invisible folded hem on a top down sweater? 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
Recently, I saw this method of grafting the hem together, and I’m not going back! The result is invisible and as stretchy as the rest of your knitted fabric.
#knitting
Recently, I saw this method of grafting the hem together, and I’m not going back! The result is invisible and as stretchy as the rest of your knitted fabric.
#knitting
Replying to a question I received: Here’s how to tink (i.e. un-knit) twisted stitches, i.e. stitches worked through the back loop (ktbl and ptbl) 🧶 🍂 #knitting
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Replying to a question I received: Here’s how to tink (i.e. un-knit) twisted stitches, i.e. stitches worked through the back loop (ktbl and ptbl) 🧶 🍂 #knitting
Get rid of the first yarn end in advance by sewing it into your working yarn.
Taper the yarn end first, e.g. by fraying it with a scissor blade.
Rub the join between your moist hands to make it even smoother 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
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Taper the yarn end first, e.g. by fraying it with a scissor blade.
Rub the join between your moist hands to make it even smoother 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
#knitting
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November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Get rid of the first yarn end in advance by sewing it into your working yarn.
Taper the yarn end first, e.g. by fraying it with a scissor blade.
Rub the join between your moist hands to make it even smoother 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
#knitting
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Taper the yarn end first, e.g. by fraying it with a scissor blade.
Rub the join between your moist hands to make it even smoother 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
#knitting
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How to join skeins 🧶 🧶 #knitting
🧶 Make sure to taper the yarn ends first, either by tearing the yarn apart or by fraying them with a scissor blade.
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🧶 Make sure to taper the yarn ends first, either by tearing the yarn apart or by fraying them with a scissor blade.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
How to join skeins 🧶 🧶 #knitting
🧶 Make sure to taper the yarn ends first, either by tearing the yarn apart or by fraying them with a scissor blade.
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🧶 Make sure to taper the yarn ends first, either by tearing the yarn apart or by fraying them with a scissor blade.
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My favourite method for small circumference knitting in the round is dpns 😇, but lately I’ve been practicing the magic loop and thanks to this tip it feels faster and easier:
💡🧶👉 At needle changes, twist the right hand needle to form a loop, then put your left thumb through the loop to the left.
💡🧶👉 At needle changes, twist the right hand needle to form a loop, then put your left thumb through the loop to the left.
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My favourite method for small circumference knitting in the round is dpns 😇, but lately I’ve been practicing the magic loop and thanks to this tip it feels faster and easier:
💡🧶👉 At needle changes, twist the right hand needle to form a loop, then put your left thumb through the loop to the left.
💡🧶👉 At needle changes, twist the right hand needle to form a loop, then put your left thumb through the loop to the left.
You’ll find any number of complicated patterns and fancy stitches out there (not least on my page 😇), but the truth is you can live a long and happy knitting life with only the simplest of stitches.
Enjoy every stitch and make things you like ✨ ✨ ✨
#Knitting can be your comfort zone 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
Enjoy every stitch and make things you like ✨ ✨ ✨
#Knitting can be your comfort zone 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You’ll find any number of complicated patterns and fancy stitches out there (not least on my page 😇), but the truth is you can live a long and happy knitting life with only the simplest of stitches.
Enjoy every stitch and make things you like ✨ ✨ ✨
#Knitting can be your comfort zone 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
Enjoy every stitch and make things you like ✨ ✨ ✨
#Knitting can be your comfort zone 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
🧶 🍂 Once you’ve learned how to purl, you’ll probably need to weave in your next ends in stocking stitch.
Here’s how to do it.
🧶 Weave in the ends on the wrong side
🧶 Follow the path of the stitches
🧶 Weave in approx 5-7 cm
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Here’s how to do it.
🧶 Weave in the ends on the wrong side
🧶 Follow the path of the stitches
🧶 Weave in approx 5-7 cm
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October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🧶 🍂 Once you’ve learned how to purl, you’ll probably need to weave in your next ends in stocking stitch.
Here’s how to do it.
🧶 Weave in the ends on the wrong side
🧶 Follow the path of the stitches
🧶 Weave in approx 5-7 cm
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Here’s how to do it.
🧶 Weave in the ends on the wrong side
🧶 Follow the path of the stitches
🧶 Weave in approx 5-7 cm
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Square 03. The Purly One of the Learn to knit blanket introduces the purl stitch. The knit and purl stitch are the two basic stitches in knitting and are the basis of more or less everything you will learn from now on.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Square 03. The Purly One of the Learn to knit blanket introduces the purl stitch. The knit and purl stitch are the two basic stitches in knitting and are the basis of more or less everything you will learn from now on.
#knitting
#knitting
Such a relief when you can pull out the lifelines without having needed them 😅
Still, I’d never knit cabled brioche without them 🧶🌺🍂
I like to use unwaxed dental floss: It’s thin, slippery and it won’t break 🧵 #knitting
Still, I’d never knit cabled brioche without them 🧶🌺🍂
I like to use unwaxed dental floss: It’s thin, slippery and it won’t break 🧵 #knitting
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Such a relief when you can pull out the lifelines without having needed them 😅
Still, I’d never knit cabled brioche without them 🧶🌺🍂
I like to use unwaxed dental floss: It’s thin, slippery and it won’t break 🧵 #knitting
Still, I’d never knit cabled brioche without them 🧶🌺🍂
I like to use unwaxed dental floss: It’s thin, slippery and it won’t break 🧵 #knitting
🧶 Most complicated decrease ever: The Brioche 4-stitch purl decrease
It is admittedly complicated, but that’s how you knit these pretty little leaves 🍂
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It is admittedly complicated, but that’s how you knit these pretty little leaves 🍂
#knitting
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🧶 Most complicated decrease ever: The Brioche 4-stitch purl decrease
It is admittedly complicated, but that’s how you knit these pretty little leaves 🍂
#knitting
It is admittedly complicated, but that’s how you knit these pretty little leaves 🍂
#knitting
Yay! Book release day! 📘
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares is now also available in Europe 🧶 🧶 🧶
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Learn to Knit in 50 Squares is now also available in Europe 🧶 🧶 🧶
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October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Yay! Book release day! 📘
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares is now also available in Europe 🧶 🧶 🧶
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/l...
#knitting
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares is now also available in Europe 🧶 🧶 🧶
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#knitting
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares
The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanced techniques. A million thanks to the amazing team at David and…
The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanced techniques. A million thanks to the amazing team at David and…
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares
The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanced techniques. A million thanks to the amazing team at David and Charles Publishing, whose support, dedication and expertise made this possible. Purchase your copy through one of the links below, or - even better - support your local yarn or book store.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Learn to Knit in 50 Squares
The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanced techniques. A million thanks to the amazing team at David and…
The Learn-to-Knit Blanket pattern is now available in book form. Learn to Knit in 50 Squares includes the squares you will find on this website along with some new ones introducing more exciting and advanced techniques. A million thanks to the amazing team at David and…
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Agreed, those underarm gaps on raglan/yoke sweaters can be VERY frustrating 🤨
Here’s the most effective method I have found so far to eliminate them 🧶🧶🧶 #knitting
Here’s the most effective method I have found so far to eliminate them 🧶🧶🧶 #knitting
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Agreed, those underarm gaps on raglan/yoke sweaters can be VERY frustrating 🤨
Here’s the most effective method I have found so far to eliminate them 🧶🧶🧶 #knitting
Here’s the most effective method I have found so far to eliminate them 🧶🧶🧶 #knitting
How to slip the first stitch purlwise and why 🤓🧶 #knitting
Slipping the first stitch purlwise creates a neat little chain along the selvedge, instead of the knotty edge you get if you knit the first stitch.
Slipping the first stitch purlwise creates a neat little chain along the selvedge, instead of the knotty edge you get if you knit the first stitch.
October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
How to slip the first stitch purlwise and why 🤓🧶 #knitting
Slipping the first stitch purlwise creates a neat little chain along the selvedge, instead of the knotty edge you get if you knit the first stitch.
Slipping the first stitch purlwise creates a neat little chain along the selvedge, instead of the knotty edge you get if you knit the first stitch.
Due to an unexpected delay in the delivery of the books, we’ve had to postpone the book launch. The event has been rescheduled to Saturday, 25 October 2025, same place, same time, i.e. Sip and Knit, Rue Blockmans 10, 1150 Woluwé Saint-Pierre from 10.30 to 13.30.
We hope you’ll be able to join us!
We hope you’ll be able to join us!
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Due to an unexpected delay in the delivery of the books, we’ve had to postpone the book launch. The event has been rescheduled to Saturday, 25 October 2025, same place, same time, i.e. Sip and Knit, Rue Blockmans 10, 1150 Woluwé Saint-Pierre from 10.30 to 13.30.
We hope you’ll be able to join us!
We hope you’ll be able to join us!
When I join a new colour, I like to weave in the end right away. I don’t mind weaving in ends, but on projects with lots of them, it helps to get a few out of the way early 😅
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#knitting
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When I join a new colour, I like to weave in the end right away. I don’t mind weaving in ends, but on projects with lots of them, it helps to get a few out of the way early 😅
#knitting
#knitting
Regular cast off
Back to basics: This is the most basic cast off. It turns out a little tight, so I like to use a larger needle for the cast off row.
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Back to basics: This is the most basic cast off. It turns out a little tight, so I like to use a larger needle for the cast off row.
#knitting
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October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Regular cast off
Back to basics: This is the most basic cast off. It turns out a little tight, so I like to use a larger needle for the cast off row.
#knitting
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Back to basics: This is the most basic cast off. It turns out a little tight, so I like to use a larger needle for the cast off row.
#knitting
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After my recent post showing the knit stitch (English vs. Continental), a lot of you asked how I purl.
I use the Norwegian purl — which, apparently, is quite controversial 😅
🧶 Some find it too labour-intensive — but it does save you from moving the yarn back and forth between knit and purl stitches
🧶 Some find it too labour-intensive — but it does save you from moving the yarn back and forth between knit and purl stitches
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
After my recent post showing the knit stitch (English vs. Continental), a lot of you asked how I purl.
I use the Norwegian purl — which, apparently, is quite controversial 😅
🧶 Some find it too labour-intensive — but it does save you from moving the yarn back and forth between knit and purl stitches
🧶 Some find it too labour-intensive — but it does save you from moving the yarn back and forth between knit and purl stitches
How do I hold the yarn when #knitting?
I got this question after yesterday’s post. This is how. My pinky controls the tension of the yarn.
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I got this question after yesterday’s post. This is how. My pinky controls the tension of the yarn.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How do I hold the yarn when #knitting?
I got this question after yesterday’s post. This is how. My pinky controls the tension of the yarn.
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/knit/
I got this question after yesterday’s post. This is how. My pinky controls the tension of the yarn.
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English vs. Continental Knitting: What's the Difference?🧶
Both methods create the same result—but the method varies:
🔹 English style: The working yarn is held in the right hand and "thrown" over the needle.
🔹 Continental style: The working yarn is held in the left hand and "picked" with the needle.
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
English vs. Continental Knitting: What's the Difference?🧶
Both methods create the same result—but the method varies:
🔹 English style: The working yarn is held in the right hand and "thrown" over the needle.
🔹 Continental style: The working yarn is held in the left hand and "picked" with the needle.
🧶 How to knit knots
This is how to make a small bobble - or knot
I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog.
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This is how to make a small bobble - or knot
I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🧶 How to knit knots
This is how to make a small bobble - or knot
I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog.
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#knitting
This is how to make a small bobble - or knot
I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog.
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/close-gaps-p...
#knitting
🧶 How to #knit rope cables
As I said, I prefer to cross cables without a cable needle 🫣, but here’s the “proper” way to do it 😇
The Ropey One of the Learn-to-knit blanket 🟦
Find the pattern on www.annaplexis.eu or in the book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares to be released in October. Link in bio 🔗
As I said, I prefer to cross cables without a cable needle 🫣, but here’s the “proper” way to do it 😇
The Ropey One of the Learn-to-knit blanket 🟦
Find the pattern on www.annaplexis.eu or in the book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares to be released in October. Link in bio 🔗
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🧶 How to #knit rope cables
As I said, I prefer to cross cables without a cable needle 🫣, but here’s the “proper” way to do it 😇
The Ropey One of the Learn-to-knit blanket 🟦
Find the pattern on www.annaplexis.eu or in the book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares to be released in October. Link in bio 🔗
As I said, I prefer to cross cables without a cable needle 🫣, but here’s the “proper” way to do it 😇
The Ropey One of the Learn-to-knit blanket 🟦
Find the pattern on www.annaplexis.eu or in the book Learn to Knit in 50 Squares to be released in October. Link in bio 🔗
🧶 How to knit rope cables
If you haven’t knitted cables before, it’s best you use a cable needle, but personally I prefer to live life dangerously and do it without 😎
This is how to do a left twist with 3 sts, also known as a C6F 🙌🎥🧶🔀
#knitting
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If you haven’t knitted cables before, it’s best you use a cable needle, but personally I prefer to live life dangerously and do it without 😎
This is how to do a left twist with 3 sts, also known as a C6F 🙌🎥🧶🔀
#knitting
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September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🧶 How to knit rope cables
If you haven’t knitted cables before, it’s best you use a cable needle, but personally I prefer to live life dangerously and do it without 😎
This is how to do a left twist with 3 sts, also known as a C6F 🙌🎥🧶🔀
#knitting
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/rope-cables/
If you haven’t knitted cables before, it’s best you use a cable needle, but personally I prefer to live life dangerously and do it without 😎
This is how to do a left twist with 3 sts, also known as a C6F 🙌🎥🧶🔀
#knitting
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/rope-cables/
🧶 Annoyed by the big gaps next to your bobbles?
You can close them on the next row (or round). When knitting flat, this will normally be a purl row.
Here’s how to do it 🧶🙌
#knitting
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Here’s how to do it 🧶🙌
#knitting
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September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🧶 Annoyed by the big gaps next to your bobbles?
You can close them on the next row (or round). When knitting flat, this will normally be a purl row.
Here’s how to do it 🧶🙌
#knitting
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Here’s how to do it 🧶🙌
#knitting
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