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                  • Knitting Swatchless Hats: mini-course
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                  • Brunstane Sweater Club
                  • Free Beginner Lace Shawl Workshop
                  • The Knitwork
                  • Free tutorials
                • Journal
                    Patterns

                    Our patterns feature inclusive sizing, clear directions, and lots of support so you can be confident of a beautiful new addition to your wardrobe

                    • By type
                    • Sweaters
                    • Shawls
                    • Cowls
                    • Hats
                    • Hands
                    • Socks & Slippers
                    • Baby
                    • Toys
                    • Home Textiles
                    • Free patterns
                    • By yarn
                    • Lace
                    • 4ply / fingering
                    • Sport
                    • Double knitting
                    • Worsted
                    • Aran
                    • Bulky
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                    • Knitworthy 8
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                    • Knitworthy 1
                    • Knitworthy 2
                    • Knitworthy 3
                    • Knitworthy 4
                    • Knitworthy 5
                    • Knitworthy 6
                    • Little Red in the City
                    • The Rhinebeck Sweater
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 3
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 2
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 1
                    • Wee ones
                  • Our patterns feature inclusive sizing, clear directions, and lots of support so you can be confident of a beautiful new addition to your wardrobe

                  • By type
                    • Sweaters
                    • Shawls
                    • Cowls
                    • Hats
                    • Hands
                    • Socks & Slippers
                    • Baby
                    • Toys
                    • Home Textiles
                    • Free patterns
                  • By yarn
                    • Lace
                    • 4ply / fingering
                    • Sport
                    • Double knitting
                    • Worsted
                    • Aran
                    • Bulky
                  • ebooks
                    • Knitworthy 8
                    • Knitworthy 7
                    • Knitworthy 1
                    • Knitworthy 2
                    • Knitworthy 3
                    • Knitworthy 4
                    • Knitworthy 5
                    • Knitworthy 6
                    • Little Red in the City
                    • The Rhinebeck Sweater
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 3
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 2
                    • Whimsical Little Knits 1
                    • Wee ones
                  • tutorial

                    Free step-by-step tutorials and inspiration for your projects

                    Knitting belts

                    August 21, 2014

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                    A magic formula for evenly distributing shaping

                    August 14, 2014

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                    wee Envelope yoke tutorial

                    July 29, 2014

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                    Keeping track of rows

                    June 19, 2014

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                    Tighter purls

                    June 12, 2014

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                    How to swatch in the round: the easy way

                    June 05, 2014

                    Learn how to knit a gauge swatch in the round, accurately and easily. Your seamless sweaters, hat...
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                    Wee Cria KAL — Finishing

                    June 03, 2014

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                    Colour Dominance

                    May 29, 2014

                    While focussing on playing with colours and practising knitting with ...
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                    Wee Cria KAL — Sleeves and Pockets

                    May 29, 2014

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                    Wee Cria KAL — Pocket openings

                    May 26, 2014

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                    tssk and tk2tog

                    May 22, 2014

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                    Wee Cria KAL — Separating Body and Sleeve sts

                    May 21, 2014

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                      Free resources

                      • KALS, step-by-step pattern guides and free patterns

                        Learn brioche with the free Daniel's Hat pattern 

                        Tombreck - a free chevron beanie pattern

                        Working the brioche neck detail on the Polwarth sweater

                        Inverleith t-shirt knitalong

                        Wee Envelope yoke tutorial

                        Installing a zipper and ribbon, finishing wee Carson

                        Yarn colour ideas for Threipmuir sweater

                        Additional colourways for the Joy mitts (choose your pride flag)

                        How to join the shoulders on Wardie

                        How to join the pockets on Granton and Wardie

                        Finishing Resources for Granton

                        Polwarth Triangle Tutorial

                        Broughton mittens tutorial part 1

                        Broughton mittens tutorial part 2

                        Broughton mittens tutorial part 3

                        Basics

                        Casting on

                        Long Tail Cast-on

                        Alternating Cable Cast-on

                        Crochet Provisional Cast-on

                        Garter Tab Cast-on for shawls

                        Tubular Cast-on for ribbing

                        Decorative Channel Island Cast-on

                        Disappearing Loop Cast-on

                         

                        Binding off

                        Tubular Bind-off for ribbing 

                        3 Easy Stretchy Bind-offs (p2tog bind-off; k2togtbl, k1 bind-off; Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind-off)

                        Tubular Bind-off for brioche stitch

                         

                        Increasing

                        Paired increase methods compared

                        Lifted increases 

                        Yarn overs 

                        How to continue in pattern while increasing and decreasing

                         

                        Decreasing

                        Cabled decreases

                        Brioche stitch double decreases

                        Twisted decreases

                         

                        Knitting in the round

                        How to Knit in the round

                        How to Knit in the round using Magic Loop

                        How to Knit in the round using DPNs

                         

                        Short rows

                        Wrapless short rows  

                         

                        Swatching and gauge

                        Gauge 101

                        How to knit a swatch 

                        Swatching in the round  

                        Swatching in pattern

                         

                        Tips and tricks

                        Avoiding ears when binding off

                        Tighter purl stitches for neater cables and ribbing

                        One row buttonholes

                        Cabling without a cable needle

                        How to knit more symmetrical yarn overs

                        Keeping track of rows

                        How to knit twisted rib

                        Bust darts in sweaters with all over stitch patterns

                        Default techniques

                        A magic formula for evenly distributing shaping

                        Superwash v Non-Superwash Wool

                        How to buy yarn online

                        Picking up sts from the middle of the fabric

                        Photographing your makes

                         

                        Reading knitting patterns

                        How to read a knitting chart

                        Understanding "continue in pattern"   

                        Understanding pattern repeats 

                        How to read your knitting

                        Help! Where am I in my knitting project?

                        Using charts, even if you hate them

                         

                        Finishing

                        Weaving in ends

                        How to block a shawl

                        How to block a hat

                        How to do kitchener stitch

                        How to do mattress stitch

                         

                        Garment knitting

                        How to swatch for a sweater 

                        Joining the body and sleeves on a seamless bottom up sweater

                         

                        Sizing

                        Choosing a size

                        Ysolda’s sizing chart for knitwear designers

                        Inclusive garment knitting

                        How to pick a garment without a model for you (specifically addresses finding garment patterns when your gender identity isn't represented and the styles you want to knit might not be sized to fit your body) 

                        How does ease affect inclusive size ranges? 

                         

                        Specific stitch patterns

                        Lace

                        Identifying and fixing mistakes in lace knitting

                         

                        Colourwork

                        Getting started with stranded colourwork 

                        Understanding colour dominance

                        Crochet steeks

                        Choosing colours

                        Working stranded colourwork over small circumferences

                        Decreases in stranded colourwork     

                        Holding the yarn for stranded colourwork

                        Ladderback Jacquard (a neat way to deal with long floats) 

                         

                        Cables

                        Cabling without a cable needle

                        Cabling without a cable needle on the wrong side

                        Twisted decreases

                        How to knit cabled decreases 

                        Closed ring cable increases and decreases

                         

                        Brioche

                        How to work brioche stitch in the round

                        Other crafts

                        Cross stitch

                        How to begin your first large cross stitch project

                        How to finish a cross stitch project with an embroidery hoop frame

                        Mending

                        How to darn with Arounna Khounnorag of Bookhou

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