Teach Yourself Visually Knitting

This seam is excellent for joining a bound-off edge to a side edge, as in joining a sleeve cap to an armhole. 1 Thread a tapestr ...

Grafting—which is a good choice for unshaped shoulders, toes of socks, and mitten tips—involves joining an open row of stitches ...

6 Insert the tapestry needle into the next stitch on the lower needle as if to purl. Leave the stitch on the needle. Finishing T ...

2 Insert a third knitting needle into the first stitch on the front needle as if to knit and then into the first stitch on the b ...

4 Slip both old stitches off the parallel needles, just as you would to knit them. You should now have 1 stitch on the third nee ...

Now that you are familiar with several different ways to attach knit pieces to each other, you can assemble a simple sweater. Ho ...

ATTACHING SLEEVES There are many different ways to shape armholes and sleeve caps. The type of armhole shaping always determines ...

Finishing Details Sometimes the finishing phase of a hand-knit sweater can take almost as long as the knitting phase. Besides bl ...

Pick Up Stitches........................................ 152 Button Bands, Neckbands, Plackets, and Collars............ 156 Make ...

Picking up stitchesis what you do to add button bands, neckbands, collars, or decorative borders to the already finished edges o ...

Picking up stitches along a vertical edge is very similar to picking them up along a bound-off edge, except that instead of inse ...

3 Pick up all the stitches on the horizontal section of the shaping until you get to the vertical section. Pick Up Stitches (con ...

Often, knitting instructions call for you to pick up a certain number of stitches evenly along an edge. If you don’t think you c ...

Some sweater patterns call for bands and collars that are knit as separate pieces and sewn on at the end. Others indicate that y ...

COLLARS There are numerous collarstyles to choose from. You work some collars by picking up the stitches around the neck and kni ...

Different styles of sweaters call for different types of buttonholes. The size and type of button you’re using also influences y ...

This eyelet buttonhole is also easy, and it makes a larger hole than a 1-stitch eyelet buttonhole. 1 Work to the point where you ...

2 Slip the last bound-off stitch back to the left needle. Make Buttonholes (continued) 3 Turn your work so that the wrong side i ...

5 Bring the loop through to the front as if to knit, but instead of slipping the old stitch off the left needle, use the right n ...

3 K1 and bring the stitch before it over and off the right needle. 4 Repeat step 3 two more times. You have bound off 4 stitches ...