Resources
Our how-to videos
Checkout our youtube channel. How-to videos there include:
Applied I-Cord Bind Off – with Shannon Squire
Hooking Beads – with Shannon Squire
Long tail cast on – with Shannon Squire
Make one – with Star Athena
Picot cast on – with Star Athena
Thrumming – with Michele Bernstein
Other how-to videos we like:
Mattress Stitch – from Berroco. Use this satisfying technique to sew a vertical seam between two pieces of stockinette stitch. It’s simple, straightforward, and leaves you with a clean, practically invisible join. Perhaps the best part is that the mattress stitch is very easy to learn.
Crocheted Provisional Cast On: Here’s a link to a fantastic Lucy Neatby video about Crocheted Provisional Cast On. It’s worth it for her voice alone. This clip is an excerpt from her awesome DVD series, Knitting Essentials. Please note: this video is on youtube, but panic not friends: it was uploaded by Lucy Neatby herself so it’s legit.
Here’s another video by Lucy Neatby about removing your provisional cast on.
Kitchener Stitch: Also called grafting, the Kitchener Stitch is used to join two pieces of knitting, both of which have live sts on the needles, in such a way that it appears seamless. Kitchener is a vital skill to learn to make your knitting really look killer. Some people hate it, which Emily can’t comprehend as it’s one of her very favorite things to do! Once you get the hang of it, we think you’ll love it, too. Here’s a video that really nicely explains the big picture theory of grafting, again by Lucy Neatby. Here is a video of grafting stockinette stitch, by knttinghelp.com.
Other resources
knittinghelp.com – the name says it all!
Ravelry – yarn/knitting/crochet community with limitless info on patterns and yarn
Knitty – great periodical of free patterns
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