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• How to Knit Garter Stitch

  

  When you start stepping into the world of hand knitting, garter stitch is perhaps the very first stitch you’ll ever encounter, and it’s the easiest one to learn as well. In flat knitting, when you knit every row, you get garter stitch. Garter stitch is a reversible stitch, meaning it looks exactly the same on the right side and wrong side of the fabric. A garter piece has those lined-up “garter ridges”, so it’s an ideal stitch for thick and warm knitting projects. GARTER STITCH (Flat knitting) R... Read More

• How to Knit in the Round with Four Needles

  

  There are basically two types of knitting, one is flat knitting, the other is circular knitting. When knitting flat, you work in one direction and flip the working piece on each and every row. When knitting in the round, you work in a spiral like way, from the bottom up, you can use a circular needle or several double-pointed needles to knit in the round. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to knit in the round with four double-pointed needles. This technique is great for small tube sha... Read More

• How to Join New Yarn in Knitting

  

  Some beginner knitters are not confident when it comes to changing yarn in knitting, so what’s the most reliable way to join in new yarn, and what should we do with those extra yarn tails? In this tutorial, I am going to show you two ways of joining in new yarn. The first method is to tie both yarn strands together, it’s really that simple, the second method is to start knitting with the new yarn in the first stitch of a row. Both methods need weaving in those extra yarn tails afterwards. Person... Read More

• How to Bind Off in Knitting

  

  Binding off, or casting off, is when you’re about to finish your knitting piece, you just use this technique to create a firm top edge of the fabric. There are many ways to bind off, in this tutorial, I am going to show you the basic method that decreases all the stitches to 1, you just keep doing (knit one then lift a stitch over), repeat that all the way across. The method above creates an edge that’s not elastic, so it’s not suitable for projects with stretchy edges such as necklines of sweat... Read More

• How to Change Between Knit and Purl

  

  After you’ve learned how to make a knit stitch and a purl stitch, now it’s time to learn how to change between knit and purl. The most important thing when making the change is to make sure your yarn is in the correct position, you should bring yarn to the back when knitting and to the front when purling. Please watch these two videos below to get an idea of how to change between knit and purl, the first video is for right-handed knitters, the second one for left-handers. Watch to Learn Left-Han... Read More