Teach Yourself Visually Knitting

TWO-HANDED STRANDING: PURL SIDE 1 Hold yarn A in your right hand, English style, and yarn B in your left hand, Continental style ...

When you’re working with a color pattern in which there are more than 4 stitches between color changes or more than two colors p ...

You should hold yarn A, the weaving yarn, in your right hand, English style, and yarn B, the working yarn, in your left hand, Co ...

3 Before purling the next stitch, bring yarn B down and away from the needles as shown (a); wrap yarn A as usual and then purl t ...

You should hold yarn A, the weaving yarn, in your right hand, English style, and yarn B, the working yarn, in your left hand, Co ...

Here are a few simple color knitting patterns that you can try. Most of them employ only two colors so that you can get a feel f ...

COLOR PATTERN 3: TWO COLORS This 8-stitch border pattern works well at the hem or cuff of a Fair Isle sweater. Color Knitting ch ...

Intarsia,or bobbin knitting,is a form of color knitting. Unlike Fair Isle— where colors are worked and carried across rows in a ...

3 Drop the contrast color and begin knitting from a new bobbin of your main color. Work to the end of the right side row. Note:W ...

Here are a few simple intarsia motifs that you can practice on or incorporate into your knitting. Before you begin, be sure to w ...

INTARSIA DUCK This is a perfect motif for baby sweaters and blankets. Color Knitting chapter 10 INTARSIA BUTTERFLY This motif ca ...

Finishing Techniques When you complete the knitting stage of a project, it’s time to move on to finishing. Finishinginvolves wea ...

Weave In Ends......................................... 136 Block Your Knitting..................................... 138 Sew Seam ...

Weaving in ends is what you do to get rid of all the loose yarns dangling from your knitting. The instructions so far have said ...

1 With the wrong side facing, thread the tail of yarn through the tapestry needle. 2 Weave the tapestry needle in and out of the ...

Blocking is a wonderful fixer of imper- fections. It involves moistening knitted pieces, shaping them, and allowing them to dry ...

Steam blocking involves using a steam iron or hand steamer. You can get fast results with steam blocking because the drying time ...

There are numerous ways to sew seams. Some seams are best for shoulders, while others are preferable for vertical seams or certa ...

You can use this firm seam almost anywhere in constructing a project. You work it with the right sides of the pieces facing each ...

3 Find the horizontal bar of yarn between the first and second stitches. Insert the needle under that horizontal bar, between th ...