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Casting on
- Tubular cast-on
- Provisonal cast-on, or provisional cast-on around a knitting needle - for when you're going to want to pick up and continue knitting from a cast-on edge. Also known as "invisible cast-on". (See kitchener stitch for one reason why you might want to do this.)
Casting off
- 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.
Not screwing up
Shaping
Stitch patterns
- Cabling (with diagrams)
- Cabling without a cable needle
- Double Knitting Technique (knitting both sides of double-sided stockinette at the same time)
- Butterfly block stitch
- Reversible stitch patterns
- Kim Salazar's Lily of the Valley cable panel
- Braided cable panel
- Linen stitch
- Reversible cables
- Baby cable rib
Colour
- Slip-stitch (mosaic) knitting - two-color knitting using only one colour at a time.
- Corrugated Rib
- 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)
- How to work an I-cord - move this to the wiki I-Cord page.
- Adding zips
- A chain selvedge can make sewing-up easier.
- See also Modular Knitting.
Knitting styles
- Lever-action English-style knitting - with photos
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
- Mending knitting
- Double Pointed Needles: an overview
- Double Pointed Needles: getting started
- Double Pointed Needles: buyers guide
See Also: Bead Knitting
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