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Tutorial 5 – Increasing/Decreasing

While knitting sometime we need to increase stitches or even decrease stitches in order to give a specific shape or to work on a specific pattern. Like other techniques in knitting there are different ways to do increase and decrease. One of the easiest ways to do decrease is through knitting two stitches together. The other way […]

Tutorial 4 – Bind off

To end up a knitting project, we need to bind it off at the end. One easy way is to knit two stitches together. The new stitch witch is created by last two stitches, will be added to the rest of stitches in the left needle and will be knitted with the […]

Tutorial 3 – Purl stitch

A stitch which is made by inserting needle in the right hand into the stitches in the left hand , while the head of the right needle stands in front of the needle in the left. Watch the video:

Tutorial 2 – Knit Stitch

After cast on desired number of stitches, the second step is to connect new loos/stitches to the previous loops/stitches. Basically this is called knitting. If you cast on double needles you need to remove one of the needles to let stitches become a little loos and easy to work. Having needle with stitches in your left […]

Pattern 16 – Basic Cable Stitch

Take 2 stitches from left needle to the right needle without knitting them, knit the next 2 stitches, Drop these 4 knits from right needle , Take stitch number 3 & 4 with right needle , Take number 1 & 2 with left needle , knit number 1 & 2 which are in the left needle […]