Teach Yourself Visually Knitting

chapter 8 Here are a few cables that integrate bobbles, knots, or textured stitches into their structure. Most of these combinat ...

Combine Cables with Bobbles, Knots, and Textured Stitches (continued) RIBBED CABLE (15-STITCH PANEL) Here’s a cable that is work ...

More Complicated Stitch Patterns: Bobbles, Knots, and Cables chapter 8 WISHBONE AND SEED STITCH CABLE (12-STITCH PANEL) This is ...

Openwork Remember the yarn over stitch from Chapter 3? That simple act of bringing the yarn over the needle to create a new stit ...

Learn Drop Stitch and Yarn Over Patterns.................. 108 Experiment with Eyelet Patterns.......................... 110 Wor ...

Most drop stitch patterns involve performing a yarn over two or more times in the same place across the row. When you work the n ...

YARN OVER STRIPE PATTERN This is an easy openwork pattern that repeats as a horizontal stripe. You work it on an even number of ...

Eyelets are the little holes that are created by combining a yarn over with a knit 2 together. Eyelet patterns usu- ally have mo ...

FALLING RAIN PATTERN This eyelet pattern is worked on a background of reverse stockinette stitch. You work it on a multiple of 6 ...

Lace patterns, like eyelet patterns, are generally somewhat dainty and elegant. Lace appears in all kinds of designs—fancy sweat ...

DIAGONAL LACE This is a simple lace that is lovely for baby clothes and summer cardigans. This pattern uses the decrease slip, s ...

Color Knitting So far you have learned a lot about how to use knit and purl stitches to create patterns. In this chapter, it’s t ...

A Look at Color........................................ 116 Make Horizontal Stripes................................. 118 Learn F ...

A Look at Color. One of the many joys of knitting is the planning stage: choosing colors that work well together—whether they be ...

Color Knitting chapter 10 Experimenting with Color When you’re shopping for a knitting project, you will often find that you lik ...

If you know how to knit and purl and how to change to a new ball of yarn (see page 28), you can knit horizontal stripes. Stripe ...

1 Using the desired ribbing pattern, work as many rows as you want the first stripe to be, ending with a wrong side row. 2 At th ...

Fair Isle knittingis a method of knitting that probably originated in Fair Isle, one of the smallest of the Shetland Islands, of ...

ONE-HANDED STRANDING: PURL SIDE 1 Work to the point in the row where you need to change colors. Let go of yarn A, pick up yarn B ...

Learn Fair Isle Knitting (continued) TWO-HANDED STRANDING: KNIT SIDE Two-handed stranding is an excellent way to work Fair Isle ...