Ever needed to add a few stitches—like to make up for thumb gusset stitches you just eliminated from the palm of your mitten. Well, here’s an easy and quick way to accomplish that. The standard half-hitch manoeuver always left me with saggy cast-on stitches. A friend showed me this ages ago and I’ve never looked...

Sometimes you just want a scarf that won’t roll—EVER. Or sometimes you need the back of an item to look just like the front. The easiest way to do that is to double knit—and mirror your pattern in reverse. On this sample, you’ll see the red side facing you with white “flea” stitches. The reverse side of the fabric is EXACTLY the same, but white with red “flea” stitches. How do you do that? Double...

Alasdair Post-Quinn over at the Twist Collective made a tutorial which–yes, is a little precious and slow but also—is rawther comprehensive regarding an elegant cast on for Double Knitting color work. Add to that the very clear tutorial at KnittingHelp.com (scroll down for the “Double Knitting” video link near the bottom of the page) and you’ll have learned a ton in under 20 minutes. (Plus Alasdair’s pattern...

Working on a design, I had to fiddle with weaving in ends as I knit. And here’s what I wound up doing in the middle of that (to keep my sanity...

And I love how she knits (link to her blog or watch below–but the blog is good too). Checkout how to make a braided edge to a hat! It’s such a lovely design. Knitwhits Tutorial – Siena Braided...

This is a very useful page of sizes. It’s not fancy, but it’s got a lot of good info!