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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

Other textured patterns
- Butterfly block stitch

Stitch pattern collections
- Reversible stitch patterns
- Free knitting stitch library

Casting on

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

Shaping

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

See Also: Bead Knitting

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