Teach Yourself Visually Knitting

SMALL BASKETWEAVE There are many forms of basketweave. This one is a small weave that you work on a multiple of 4 stitches plus ...

Try More Complicated Knit and Purl Stitch Patterns (continued) DIAMONDS IN COLUMNS You can repeat any motif in a series of panel ...

LINEN STITCH This is a marvelous stitch pattern that has a woven look on one side and a grid of bumps on the other. It lies flat ...

Shaping Now that you have learned some basic techniques, such as combining knitting and purling to create interesting patterns, ...

Increase 1 Stitch........................................ 48 Increase Multiple Stitches................................ 52 Decre ...

To make your knitting wider, you need to increase,or add, a stitch or stitches. There are many types of increases, each with a d ...

Yarn over is an increase that is often used for decorative increases and lacy pat- terns because it makes a hole. YARN OVER WITH ...

RIGHT-SLANTING MAKE ONE WITH PURL STITCH 1 Before a purl stitch, use the left needle to pick up the horizontal strand from back ...

A left-slanting make one is just like a right-slanting make one, except the horizontal strand is picked up from front to back. S ...

DOUBLE YARN OVER INCREASE The double yarn over increase is similar to the two previous double increases in that you work increas ...

Shaping chapter 4 INCREASING MULTIPLE STITCHES EVENLY ACROSS A ROW Some patterns ask you to increase a certain number of stitche ...

When you need to make your knitting narrower, you decreasestitches. There are several methods for decreas- ing, each with differ ...

These two decreases are similar to the regular knit 2 together and purl 2 together decreases, only in this case, the 2 stitches ...

3 Insert the left needle into the fronts of both slipped stitches and then knit them as 1 stitch. Decrease 1 Stitch (continued) ...

This decrease, also worked on the front side of a piece of knitting, slants quite visibly to the left. It is also sometimes refe ...

You may want to decrease more than 1 stitch at a time over one row. Your instructions may call for decreasing many stitches acro ...

DOUBLE VERTICAL DECREASE This double decrease results in symmetrical shaping with a raised vertical stitch in the center. It is ...

Short-rowingis a shaping technique that involves working a series of partial rows—instead of decreasing or increasing stitches—t ...

4 Bring the working yarn to the back of the work, thereby wrapping the slipped stitch. Shaping chapter 4 5 Turn your work so tha ...

2 Bring the working yarn between the needles to the back of the work. 3 Slip the same stitch you slipped in step 1 back to the l ...