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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 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 […]

Tutorial 1 – how to cast on

The first step of knitting is casting on. Casting on means making the base row of loops that will allow us to make a knit fabric by connecting new loops in following rows. The number of loops that you need to cast on depends on the project you wanna work on and also on your yarn size. As you […]