Knitting hints and tips

Hints and tips and other useful bits about knitting, gathered over many years.

Every time I need to look up how to do something, or stumble across a new (to me) technique, I try to remember to record it here.

This list started as a ravelry project page, and I've now copied the links here and imposed a bit more structure. Going forward I will add new discoveries to this version.

Beginning and ending

Casting on

Woolly Wormhead's wonderful cast on resource.

Åsa Tricosa's winding (provisional) cast on.

Åsa Tricosa's crochet cast on (for necklines, underarms, etc).

Loop cast on for the middle or end of a row (e.g. underarm or front neck).

Italian cast on aka tubular cast on or kitchener cast on - great for ribbing (non-provisional cast on version).

Yarn Geek's Intarsia cast on.

Super stretchy double needle cast on.

German twisted cast on: a video, or photos & PDF.

Binding off

Woolly Wormhead's wonderful cast off resource.

Lucy Neatby's Modified Conventional Bind Off.

Åsa Tricosa's stretchy cast off.

Jeny’s surprisingly stretchy bind off.

Icelandic bind off (stretchy, good for garter st).

Two stitch i-cord bind off.

Improved picot bind off.

TECHknitting Cast off stitches in the middle of a row.

Tubular bind off: kitchener rib bind-off, using three needles, or for double rib.

Useful stitches

Knitting styles

Combination knitting for ribbing

Short rows

German short-rows videos Part I - Purl to knit and Part II - Knit to purl.

Åsa Tricosa's German Short Rows photo tutorial.

Shadow Wraps.

Other

yarnover's subtle increase (youtube) and subtle decrease (ravelry).

Fleegle's Garter stitch in the round without purling.

Colour knitting

Stripes

TECHknitting Jogless one-row stripes.

Stranded

Two-handed colourwork: Philosophers wool and Cotton & Cloud: Episode 6.1, Episode 6.2, and Episode 6.3.

TECHknitting Another way to handle long floats.

Ysolda's Colour Dominance in colourwork.

Helene Magnusson's Jogless joins in colourwork.

Intarsia in the round

Completely seamless technique (see paragraph starting 'The other method...')

Anne Berk's 'Annetarsia' (videos 1 to 6).

Garments and accessories

Sweaters and cardis

Top down set in sleeves - includes useful hints on short rows and how to tighten up the picked up stitches.

The shape of a set-in sleeve.

Cocoknits Bias bind-off for shaping shoulders.

TECHknitting Tulips buttonhole - a neat symmetrical buttonhole.

A great way to add a zip to a cardi (ravelry).

Socks

Socks Without Ears (includes no-graft toes).

The Finchley Graft - a more intuitive way to graft (from the back).

Round toe.

Star toe.

Great general resources

Woolly Wormhead - knitting & crochet techniques.

Roxanne Richardson videos.

TECHknitter index.

Knitting Fool Knitting Abbreviations.

My original list on ravelry

This also includes links to other people's lists on ravelry.

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