Knitting Articles
Most Popular Articles
- The 5 Best Knitting Books Of All Time
- The Best Circular Needles For Magic Loop
- Short-Row Shaping: Learn to “Wrap and Turn”
- Top 5 Stretches For Knitting Pain and Stiffness
Being a Knitter
- How to Overcome Your Knitting Fears
- In 2011, There’s No Excuse
- Knit Hats for Breast Cancer Patients
- Top 5 Stretches For Knitting Pain and Stiffness
- The Ideal Number of Knitting Projects to Work On at One Time
Celebrity Spotlights
- Meet Stephanie Dosen, the Magic Behind Tiny Owl Knits
- Video Tour: The Malabrigo Factory in Uruguay
- Jared Flood Interview: Inside Brooklyn Tweed & Shelter
- Workshop With Cookie A Part I: Charts and Cables
- Workshop With Cookie A Part II: Stitch Patterns
- Workshop With Cookie A Part III: Top-Down Sock Design
Cast-Ons
- The Knitted Cast-On
- Italian (Tubular) Cast-On For 1×1 Rib
- Provisional Cast-On With A Crochet Hook
- Liat’s Limitless Cast-On… for Two-at-a-Time ANYTHING
Knitting Basics
- How To Bind Off In Pattern
- What “Work Even” Means And How To Do It
- How How To Hand-Wind Yarn From A Skein
- Why Size Doesn’t Matter – Needle Size, That Is
- How to Hand Wind A Center-Pull Ball or Bobbin
- How To Change Colors in Knitting: Making Stripes
- How To Count Stitches And Rows In Knitting
- The Trick To Counting Rows and Changing Colors Smoothly on Garter Stitch
- Three Reasons You’ve Got To Know How To Read A Knitting Pattern
- How To Read A Knitting Pattern: Substituting Yarn Fiber and Weight
- How To Read A Knitting Pattern: Size, Measurements, and Ease
- The Magic Of A Plain Garter-Stitch Scarf
- Mistake-Rib Stitch: An Easy, Masculine Scarf-Stitch
Knitting Techniques
- How To Knit Bobbles
- How To Knit Mock Cables
- How To Knit Reversible Cables
- Beading: How to Bead With a Crochet Hook
- Short-Row Shaping: Learn to “Wrap and Turn”
- Short-Row Shaping II: How To Invisibly Hide Purl Wraps
- Knit And Purl Yarnovers In Any Combination
- How To Slip a Stitch In Knitting and When to Do It
- How To Pick Up and Knit Stitches Two Ways
Knitting Tricks
- How To Knit a Swatch In a Hurry
- How To Get Away With Not Planning
- How to Knit (Purl) Backwards and When to Do It
- Garter Stitch In The Round Without Purling
- Manage Your Stitches Right For Faster Knitting
- How To Use Your Fingers To Help You Knit Faster
- How To Knit The Ultimate Mitten Thumb
- When You Run Out Of Tail — Tricks For Casting On And Weaving In Short Ends
Bind-Offs
- The Stretchy Yarnover Bind-Off
- The Invisible Ribbed Bind Off For 1×1 Rib
- Picot Hemmed Edge Bind-Off
- Russian Grafting: The Alternative to Kitchener Stitch
- Three-Needle Bind-Off: How To Seam Up Shoulders
Edge Treatments
- How to Knit a Hemmed Edge
- How to Knit a Picot Hemmed Edge
- How to Add a Single Crochet Border Onto Knitting
- How to Crochet a Scalloped Border Onto Knitting
Finishing
Troubleshooting
- How To Darn Socks: Knitwear Surgery 101
- How To Fix a Dropped Stitch on Garter Stitch
- How To Fix A Dropped Knit Stitch 10 Rows Down
- Recognizing When You’ve Accidentally Slipped a Stitch
- Stop Letting Stitches Lag On Your Left-Hand Needle
- Stop Scrunching The Stitches Up On Your Right-Hand Needle
- How To Undo Knitting And Get Stitches Back On Your Needles Correctly
- Are You Pushing Your Needle-Tips Far Enough Through Your Stitches?
Continental Knitting
Magic Loop
- How To Bind Off
- Traveling Loop Method
- How To Purl On Magic Loop
- Getting Turned Around
- Getting Turned Inside Out
- Adapting Patterns, Purling, and More
- How To Switch Needles
- How to Undo Knitting in the Round
- Knit Purl Gurl’s Review of Magic Loop E-Book
Two-at-a-Time
Socks
- Slip-Stitch Heel Pattern
- Short-Row Sock Heel Formula
- Toe-Up Socks with the Perfect Heel Flap – Fingering Weight
- Toe-Up Socks with the Perfect Heel Flap – Worsted Weight
- Everything You Need to Know About the Fleegle Heel
- How to Block Socks and Why
- Top Down Sock Design With Cookie A.
- When To Start Your Fleegle Heel Increases
- When You Forget Increases On Your Fleegle Heel
Product Recommendations and Tips
- The 5 Best Knitting Books Of All Time
- The Best Circular Needles For Magic Loop
- How To Make A Pompom Using a Pompom Maker
- Are You Buying The Right Needles For Your Project?
Interviews: Get to Know Me
- Video Interview with Fiberstory.tv
- Blog Interview With Knit 1 For The Road
- Knit Picks E-Book Author Podcast Interview
- Liat’s Interview on the Donna Seebo Radio Show
- Interview on KUTV2 News This Morning and Mary’s Easy Italian Scarf Pattern
- Interview with Bonnie D. Graham of Read My Lips (BlogTalk Radio)
My Personal Journey
- Bloopers!
- Here’s What’s Been Going On…
- Knitting While Horseback Riding
- KNITFreedom’s Second Birthday
- I’ll Be Traveling The World This Summer
- KNITFreedom’s Very First Birthday
- Live Your Dream — A Celebration of How Far We’ve Come
- A Shout-Out To Our Wonderful Knitting Forum
- Getting Turned Inside Out… In More Ways Than One
- How Knitting Rescued Me, and A Knitted Christmas Ornament
My Knitting Adventures in Argentina
- My First Adventures In Argentina
- How to Wind Yarn by Hand, and Mendoza, Argentina
- Bobbles and Handmade Felt from Mendoza, Argentina
- Mock Cables and the Copa America
- How to Knit a Hemmed Edge, and Spanish Knitting Magazines
- The Slipped Stitch Heel, and Winter in Mendoza
- Garter Stitch in the Round, and Mendoza Holiday
- Russian Grafting, and the Problem with the “To Go” Concept
- Reversible Cables, and Weekend in Chile
- Buenos Aires Yarn District and Goodbye, Argentina!
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