Everything you need to know about sock measurements and cast on requirements for the most common sizes – man or woman. Socks are one of the most popular knitting patterns. I certainly love making them. But there is one question you have to deal with whenever you start a new project: Just how many stitches …
How to tell the right side from the wrong side of a knitting project, the easy way for beginners! Did you just start knitting? Maybe you successfully finished an easy beginner’s coaster in Garter stitch, and now you want to begin a more complicated pattern. And suddenly there’s a distinction between knitting the right side …
A step-by-step tutorial on knitting fingerless gloves (thumbs included) – easy and free pattern suitable for absolute beginners Are you a knitting beginner and want to make yourself some gloves or mittens? But you are scared because they do look intimidating? Well, no worries! You came to the right place because in this tutorial, I …
A step-by-step tutorial on how to knit jogless stripes in the round, the easy way – 4 different methods. Stripes are the easiest colorwork technique in knitting. Unlike intarsia or Fair Isle, it doesn’t require any special joining techniques. But when you are knitting in the round, things get a bit problematic. Every time you …
Knitting colorwork techniques 101: Everything you need to know about the difference between Intarsia and Fair Isle. Chances are high one of your first ever knitting projects was a scarf or a little coaster in garter stitch. Soon after you finished that you probably realized that you can add stripes to your knitting by alternating …
A massive list of all important knitting abbreviations, techniques, and terms compiled into one big glossary with tons of helpful links to tutorials Is there an abbreviation in your knitting pattern you don’t understand? Or did someone on social media say something you didn’t understand? Well, then you came to the right place. This glossary …
A step by step tutorial on reading knitting patterns and follow instructions the right way for beginners. Knitting is an amazing hobby. It helps you to create your own garments based on a couple of basic stitches and knit them in the size and color your want. While it is fairly easy to knit a …
A helpful tutorial on reading knitting charts the easy way, so you can follow your pattern flawlessly. After your first couple of projects in garter stitch and other easy knitting stitch patterns, you finally decided to tackle a more complicated project. Congrats! Yet, now you realize the pattern has no written instructions, and you have …
A step-by-step tutorial on different ways to keep your stockinette stitch from curling in at the sides. You are currently working on a scarf or some other beautiful project and a few rows in you start to notice that it doesn’t keep its shape. And now you are wondering how to prevent that? Just how …
Learn how to estimate the yarn requirements for a bind-off the right way. You are in the last row of your project, but there is only a small amount of yarn left. And now you are wondering just how much yarn you need for a bind-off, right? Time to play yarn chicken? Well, in this …