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3 Reasons to Knit a Gauge Swatch
Swatching is a critical first step for most knitting projects.
Essential Knitting Skills
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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 Tips for Tight Knitters
Hints to help your stitches loosen up.
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3 Ways to Wear a Crescent Shawl
Make a statement with your style. From dramatic, to playful, to carefree.
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3 Ways to Weave in Loose Ends | Photo Tutorial
There's no single "right" way to weave yarn tails into every knitting project.
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6 Ways to Use a Food Scale in Knitting
One of the most useful knitting tools you may not find at a yarn shop.
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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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I always get gauge ;)
Sorry, I don't believe knitters who say this.
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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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Spool Knitting
Knitting an i-cord with a wooden spool knitter.
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Stretch, Shape and Sculpt
Two approaches to blocking the same knit lace shawl.
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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 Dreaded Curling Edge
Larger needles, aggressive blocking or a balanced stitch pattern?
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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 Magic of Blocking
Textiles magically transform into something new as soon as they hit the water and dry.
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The Truth About Left-Handed Knitting
Lefty or righty, handedness doesn't matter!