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You can do a lot of things in knitting without shaping, but there will come a time when you’ll need to know how to work a knitting increase. There are lots of easy ways to add stitches to your knitting, so let’s get started. The Easiest Knitting Increase: Yarn Over You might have done this […]
Instead of doing a standard bind off technique to finish my knitting projects, most of the time I will do a stretchy bind off. Why Work a Stretchy Bind Off? A stretchy bind off is ideal for socks knit from the toe up, hats knit from the top down and other projects that need to […]
The figure 8 cast on is my preferred cast on for toe-up socks, though it could be used for other small tubes like body parts for knit amigurumi. Learn to make the figure 8 cast on with this tutorial. What is the Figure 8 Cast On? This cast on is worked over two double-pointed knitting […]
I know there are other uses for the Turkish cast on than toe-up socks, but that’s the only time I’ve used this cast on method. If you wanted to work other small tubes with a seamless beginning — such as a doll arm or leg, or gloves if for some reason you were working from […]
Many, many years ago, when I was just starting to write about knitting as part of my job, I picked up a copy of Knitting without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmermann. I don’t even know what led me to it. Probably I read somewhere that it was a knitting classic. Maybe I felt that it would […]
When you are ready to finish a knitting project, you have to get the stitches off the needles, so let’s learn how to bind off knitting! What is a Bind Off in Knitting? The bind off, sometimes also called casting off (to mirror casting on at the beginning of a project) is a way to […]
Learning how to purl is generally the second big step in learning how to knit after learning how to make the knit stitch. Purling is essentially knitting but backwards, which doesn’t make sense until you see it done, so let’s dive right in. Materials for Learning to Purl As with learning to knit, to learn […]