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How to do the Provisional Cast On

The provisional cast on leaves the stitches live at the beginning of your project, so they can be joined with the stitches at the end of the work using the three needle bind off. This creates a very tidy, almost invisible seam, as shown in the Weekend Scarf above, that is great is for infinityContinue reading “How to do the Provisional Cast On”

Lesson 4 – Saving Your Work

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to make do some common repairs so when you make a mistake, you can fix it without having to go all the way back to the beginning. A crochet hook makes almost all of these repairs easier. Through the course of the following three videos, you’ll learn how toContinue reading “Lesson 4 – Saving Your Work”

How to Rip Back, Pick up a Dropped Row, and Use Lifelines

This video covers how to get your work back on the needles if you lose a lot of stitches, how to tink, frog, and use lifelines to save your work if you have a problem in the middle. To tink (which is knit spelled backwards) is to unknit, one stitch at a time. To frogContinue reading “How to Rip Back, Pick up a Dropped Row, and Use Lifelines”

How to Repair Common Knitting Mistakes

The video below shows how to pick up a dropped stitch and go back and fix a mistake in a previous row without having to rip back your work. A crochet hook makes repairs like this a lot easier. Check out the video below, as well as the other recommended posts, to learn how toContinue reading “How to Repair Common Knitting Mistakes”

Lesson 3 – Knitting Easy Fingerless Gloves

In this lesson, you’ll knit a pair of easy fingerless gloves that introduce the purl stitch and ribbing. You can either work through the following in order to learn each of the steps required to knit the gloves, or you can jump straight to the pattern and tutorial video and come back to this pageContinue reading “Lesson 3 – Knitting Easy Fingerless Gloves”

How to Knit a Tidy Rib Stitch

Rib stitch is made by alternating knit and purl stitches, usually knit 1 purl 1 (K1P1 or one-by-one rib) or knit two purl two (K2P2 or two-by-two rib). It makes a very stretchy fabric such as at the end of a pair of gloves, top of a pair of socks, edge of a hat, orContinue reading “How to Knit a Tidy Rib Stitch”

Lesson 2 – Knitting a Garter Stitch Coaster

In this lesson, you’ll knit a Garter Stitch Coaster. You can either work through each of the following in order to learn each of the steps required to knit the coaster, or you can jump straight to the pattern and tutorial video for the coaster and come back to this page if you need moreContinue reading “Lesson 2 – Knitting a Garter Stitch Coaster”

Lesson 1 – Knitting Materials

This lesson starts by providing a list of the two to four items you need to get started with your knitting. After that, I’ll share everything I keep in my knitting bag, and the other knitting tools I keep close at hand. Getting Started with Knitting All you really need to get started knitting isContinue reading “Lesson 1 – Knitting Materials”

Garter Stitch Coaster Pattern and Video

A Garter Stitch Coaster is great for a would-be-knitter’s very first project. It’s relatively simple while still teaching several important skills that all knitters use. This one uses the continental cast on, knit stitches to make garter stitch fabric, and a simple bind off method. The pattern is available to download, and the video belowContinue reading “Garter Stitch Coaster Pattern and Video”