Category: Beginners
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A Simplified Alternative to the Fisherman’s Stitch and Shaker Stitch
Hi everyone, and welcome back to WatchKnitting.com! I’m Fariba, and today I’m excited to guide you through two beautiful stitches that resemble the Fisherman’s Stitch and the Shaker Stitch. I’ll also share a handy trick to create reversible fabrics with just one small adjustment. Let’s dive in! Getting Started For both patterns, you’ll need to…
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How to Seamlessly Hide Knots in Your Knitted Patterns
Let’s see how we can fix the knots at the back of your knitted pattern, especially when adding another yarn. While knitting, I made a knot to continue my pattern, but now it’s time to address it. Here’s how you can remove the knot and hide it seamlessly: The result is a smooth, tidy back…
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I am a beginner, what are my steps?
Welcome to the world of knitting! Learning a new skill could be challenging sometime specially if there is not enough useful resources to rely on them. Many websites, tutorials and even books became useless as it comes to beginners tutorials since they mostly rely on intermediate and experienced lessons. Here I decided to tour you…
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The length of tail in long tail casting on?
Some people find it is challenging to figure out what would be the length of yarn in long tail casting on to cast on the very first stitch. Despite some traditional ways that give rough estimation for measured tail, which work in some situations but not in others, there is a precise way, for…
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How to measure required stitches for a project?
After you chose your yarn and your needle, cast on 20 stitches. Knit at least 3 or 4 rows of any stitch you plan to knit, and then pull out the needle and measure the length of your knitting by a measuring tape. Now divide that number by 20 and here you get the measure per one…
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Tutorial 6 – Yarn over
Yarn over is a technique that allows yo to create lace stitches. For doing yarn over you do increase and decrease at the same row and that keeps your piece measure at a fix length and fix number of stitches.
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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…
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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…
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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:
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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…