Swatching is a critical first step for most knitting projects.
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3 Tips for Successfully Following a Knitting Pattern
Laughing about the lies knitters tell themselves and others.
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3 Ways to Weave in Loose Ends
There's no single "right" way to weave yarn tails into every knitting project.
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Ask Anything | Help! Which size should I knit?
5 pieces of information to consider when choosing your size.
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Ask Anything | Why are pattern gauge and dimensions given for blocked fabric?
I never knew pattern gauge was the gauge after blocking. That’s confusing. Why don't patterns have two gauges, one during knitting and one after blocking?
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Binding Off Stitches at the Beginning of a Row
How to count as you bind off and how many stitches are left.
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Chain-Garter Selvedge
A decorative way to work the side edging of a knit fabric that will not be seamed.
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Hat Sizing and Shaping
Determining hat circumference and decrease round spacing at the top of a knit hat
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How to Insert a Lifeline
If you make a mistake in your knitting, it's easy to rip back to a lifeline.
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How to Knit an I-Cord
Knitting a narrow tube or rope around 3, 4 or 5 stitches.
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Is a gauge swatch included in the yarn requirements?
The short answer is yes... and no.
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It's Knot OK!
Using duplicate stitch before a yarn knot creates a hole in your fabric.
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Mending Your Knits with Duplicate Stitch
Fixing a thin spot on the heel of a sock.
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Pick Up and Knit
Picking up stitches along a side edge, like a heel flap
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Picking Up Stitches Along an Edge
6 options for where to pick up the stitch and how to knit it.
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Prolonged Sitting and Knitting: Reversing the Effects
6 exercises to counteract the tightness that happens when you're in a seated position.
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Secrets of the Slip Knot
Explaining the hows and whys of the first thing most knitters learn.
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Summer School 2021 | Week 03
Measuring Up: How our stitches and fabric measure up.
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Swatch Out
5 Reasons to swatch besides checking your gauge.
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The Importance of Swatching your Knits
Swatching involves more than knitting a square with a certain size needles to get a specific gauge.
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The Truth About Left-Handed Knitting
Lefty or righty, handedness doesn't matter!
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Tracking Your Progress in Complex Knitting Patterns
Simple office supplies can help you keep track of you place.
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Travel Knit Kit
Essential notions for knitting on the go.
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Twin and Triplet Stitch Knit and Purl
A short row turning stitch where two or three loops emerge from one lower stitch.