Tips & Tricks

TOOLS & OTHER HELP

• Ease (chart)
• Various knitting calculators
• Actual Size Graph Paper
• Chart generator (text pattern to chart)
• Glove pattern generator
• Waist shaping calculator
• Size charts for Children
• knitting glossary
• French to English Knitting Dictionary
• Stashbusting ideas!

TECHNIQUES:

• Embroidery videos
• Buttonholes: Loops
• Buttonholes: 5 Different Techniques
• Buttonholes: Afterthought Buttonholes
• Button loops (crocheted)
• Blocking: Acrylic
• Center-pull Ball Tutorial
• Decreasing Techniques
• Duplicate Stitch: Garter Stitch
• Duplicate Stitch: Ribbing
• Duplicate Stitch: Stockinette
• Bobbles/Tassels (crocheted)
• Dying Yarn with Food Colouring
• Estimating Yardage
• Felting the “old” way
• Folded Picot Hem
• I-Cord Button
• Unwrapped Short Row
• Heels By Number
• Increase: Invisible Increase
• Two on One Circular Needle Technique
• Russian Join
• Anatomically Correct Toes
• Stripes: Jogless stripes in the round
  
• Seaming Techniques
• Seaming: reversible grafting technique (alternative link)

LINING:

• Line your hat with fleece!
• Lining Tutorial (Bag)

BIND OFF & CAST ON

• Stretchy Bind Off Techniques
  
• Tubular Bind Off
• Tubular Bind Off 2
• Fake Tubular Bind Off
• Sewn cast off

• Tubular Cast On
• Tubular Cast On 2
• Twisted German Cast On
• Circular Cast On by Emiliy Ocker
• Invisible cast on techniques
• Another invisible cast on
• Turkish Cast On (for toe up socks)