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This garter stitch cowl knitting pattern was originally published at About.com, which has long since disappeared, but it’s a fun little pattern so I wanted to revive it. This project adds a little twist to garter stitch by working it in the round. Instead of knitting every stitch you knit one round and purl the […]
One of the first knitting projects new knitters usually make is a garter stitch scarf. I used to always teach knitting with bulky yarn and a simple garter stitch scarf (though washcloths are also good because they can be finished faster). A garter stitch scarf teaches you a lot of the basic skills you need […]
This easy garter stitch hot pad knitting pattern would be a great first knitting project. It knits up quickly with bulky yarn and will be useful even if it doesn’t come out perfectly square. Supplies I used about 50 yards of an old ball of Peaches n Creme Double Worsted, a bulky weight cotton yarn […]
If you’re stash busting and trying to use all your yarn in a project, or you’re just a poor planner, there may come a time when you don’t have enough yarn to do a standard bind off so you need to use a no yarn bind off. This is actually really quick and easy to […]
Applied I-cord (sometimes called attached I-cord) is a method for adding a border to a knitting project that looks like a tube of knitting. It’s pretty easy to do, though it is also rather tedious. Why Knit Applied I-cord? Applied I-cord gives your projects a nice, clean, finished look. It’s a great way to add […]
The provisional cast on is a great way to start a knitting project when you are going to want to work from the cast on stitches again. For example you might work a scarf with a lace motif you want to make sure goes in the same direction down each side of the scarf, or […]
I recently wrote a post about what I think about when choosing yarn for a knitting project, which is about how to substitute yarn in a general way. (And all of this applies to crochet, too, of course, it was just at the time of this writing people were talking about it specific to knitting.) […]