Master Your Craft from the Ground Up.
It always amazes me how one simple, unassuming little stitch can bend, stretch, combine, and extend to create such an endless variation of beautifully woven fabrics. Every single stitch you’ll ever see in the world of knitting stems from this one simple stitch – the knit stitch. Even a purl…
Every knitting project begins with a cast on. Now, what exactly is a cast on, you ask? Well, to put it quite simply – a cast on is the very first set of stitches from which a knitting project grows. There are SO many cast on methods you can choose…
Picking up stitches is a finishing technique used in both seamless and seamed knitting, although you’ll see it significantly more in the former than in the latter. For example, when knitting a sweater up in pieces (for later seaming), picking up stitches generally occurs primarily around the neckband, after you’ve…
So, you’ve come to the end of your knitting project, bound off the last of your stitches, and are now wondering what on earth to do with all those loose, dangling strands that are keeping your project from looking ‘complete’. Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend! In…
Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could just buy a ball of yarn that magically came with unlimited yardage and just grew and grew and grew as to our heart’s content? Sadly, this just isn’t so – sigh. The truth of the matter is, if you’re knitting up a large-ish…
