London.crafts wiki

Stitch patterns

• Flat and simply-textured fabrics
  • Stocking stitch (stockinette)
  • Double Knitting Technique (knitting both sides of double-sided stocking stitch at the same time)
  • Linen stitch - firm neat flat fabric.
  • Garter stitch
  • Rib
  • Broken rib - a simple, attractive ribbing variant.

• Cables
  • Cabling (with diagrams)
  • Cabling without a cable needle
  • Kim Salazar's Lily of the Valley cable panel
  • Braided cable panel
  • Reversible cables
  • Baby cable rib - cable effect with no cable needle.
  • Chalice cable

• Travelling stitch patterns
  • Baby cable rib
  • Knitted lattice
  • Travelling striped rib

• Other textured patterns
  • Butterfly block stitch
  • Peacock's tail pattern
  • Daisy stitch

• Stitch pattern collections
  • Original stitch patterns on the livejournal knitting community
  • Reversible stitch patterns
  • Free knitting stitch library

Casting on

• Italian-style tubular cast-on ... another explanation - invisible cast-on that leaves a very neat edge.
• Provisional cast-on
• Twisted German cast-on - stretchy and neat.
• Roundup of long-tail cast-ons on the livejournal advanced_knit community.

Casting off

• Three-needle bind-off - cast off and attach two pieces at the same time.
• Casting off in purl
• Needle Bind Off - a stretchy cast-off method using a (sewing) needle
• Italian Bind Off (PDF, 1 meg) - another stretchy cast-off method using a sewing needle.
• Icelandic Bind Off - another stretchy cast-off method using just knitting needles - very simple.

Not screwing up

• Counting rows
• Stitch markers
• Lifelines

Shaping

• Short rows
• Invisible increases
• Left-leaning decreases: SSK, SKPO, K2 tog tbl; P2 tog tbl (my knitting book also has "P1 slip1 psso", but I have no idea how you'd do this)
• Right-leaning decreases: K2 tog; P2 tog

Colour

• Slip-stitch (mosaic) knitting - two-color knitting using only one colour at a time.
• Corrugated Rib
• Illusion Knitting
• Variegated Yarns
• See also Modular Knitting.

Making up

• Mattress stitch (invisible join for stockinette)
• Three-needle bind-off (how to avoid sewing shoulder seams)
• Kitchener stitch (how to graft two pieces of knitting together to avoid a seam)
• I-Cord
• Adding zips
• A chain selvedge can make sewing-up easier.
• See also Modular Knitting.

Knitting styles

• Lever-action English-style knitting - with photos
• Knitting backwards

Hints and Tips pages

• Learn to knit
• http://www.creative-corner.net/tips/index.html
• Lucy Neatby's knitting tips
• http://www.woolworks.org/hints.html
• Wendy's knitting FAQ
• Sweaterscapes knitting tips
• Mending knitting
• Double Pointed Needles: an overview
• Double Pointed Needles: getting started
• Double Pointed Needles: buyers guide

See Also: Bead Knitting