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Learning a few knitting decrease methods is important for being able to shape your knitting when you want to, or for working lace knitting stitches. Decreases are used, to name a few examples, at the tops of hats and the toes of socks and in other ways to make garments fit the way we want […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When you learn to knit, one of the first things you will learn is how to make the knit stitch. It’s the basis for everything else you learn in knitting, and you can actually make a lot of things just knowing how to knit. Mastering the knit stitch is actually pretty easy when you have […]
Long tail cast on is probably the most common cast on for knitters, but it’s not the easiest. It does have some advantages, and it’s fun to do once you understand it, but there is definitely a learning curve. What is Long Tail Cast On? The long tail cast on is also known as the […]