Skills: Knitting

General Tutorials

If you are looking for general help on the internet I always recommend the following two resources to new knitters:

Knittinghelp.com: All the basics with great videos and photos!

Very Pink Knits: I usually just google whatever I’m searching for (ex. “knit 2 together”) and “very pink knits” and the right video pops up!

Chickadee Knitting Club (for KIDS): Season 1 covers casting on, knitting & binding off. Season 2 starts with purling and moves into stitches combining knit & purl.

Project Tutorials

You can find a list of video tutorials that take you through an entire knitting project HERE. 

Abbreviations

• knitting abbreviations

Basic Stitches

• knit stitch
• purl stitch
• seed stitch
• twisted knit stitches

Beginner Knitting

• Beginner Knitting
• Kids: Beginner Knitting

Bind-Off (Cast-Off)

• bind-off
• bind-off: in the middle of a row
• bind off: in pattern
• bind off: last stitch neatly
• icelandic bind-off
• i-cord bind off (2 methods: classic & Meg Swansen)
• jenny's surprisingly stretchy bind-off (3 ways)
• simple stretchy bind-off
• sloped bind-off
• three needle bind-off
• tubular bind-off

Blocking

• blocking blankets
• blocking hats
• blocking wires
• garment fitting & blocking
• general blocking techniques & overview
• steam blocking
• wet blocking 

Brioche

• Basic Brioche 

Cables

• cables
• cables: without a cable needle
• cable symbols
• bobbles

Cast-On

• backwards loop cast-on
• cable cast-on
• cast-on: at start of row
• cast-on: in the middle of a row
• crochet cast-on (great for provisional)
• garter tab cast-on (for shawls)
• german twisted cast-on
• i-cord cast-on
• invisible provisional cast-on
• judy's magic cast-on
• knitted cast-on
• long-tail/slingshot cast-on
• provisional cast-on
• tubular cast-on
• tubular cast-on in the round
• 1 x 1 long-tail tubular cast-on (2 rows)
• turkish cast-on

Circular Needles 

see also "Working in the Round"

• knitting flat on circular needles

Colourwork

• fair isle techniques 
• carrying fair isle floats
• learn to knit fair isle hat
• intarsia
• mosaic knititng
• choosing colours: colour palettes 

Decrease

• centre double decrease
• K2tog (knit 2 together)
• SSK (slip, slip, knit)
• SSP (slip, slip, purl)

Ends

• joining a new ball of yarn
• weaving in ends
• weaving in ends: as you go
• weaving in ends: garter stitch
• weaving in ends: in ribbing
• weaving in ends: seed stitch
• weaving in ends: stripes

Fixing Mistakes

• beginner mistakes
• colour change jog
• dropped stitch (slow motion)
• dropped cast-on stitch
• undoing stitches: 'tinking'
• undoing stitches: decreases

Gauge/Tension & Swatching

• checking gauge
• gauge swatch
• swatching
• swatching in the round

Grafting 

• grafting in ribbing
• kitchener stitch
• kitchener stitch (in slow motion)

i-Cord

• i-cord

 Increase

• KFB
• M1L & M1R
• M1 increases (Slow Motion)
• M1P
• M1PL & M1PR
• Lifted Increases: RL1 & LL1

Lace

• lace basics
• lifelines

Loom Knitting

• Loom Knitting for Beginners

Math

• calculating yardage on a partial ball of yarn
• casting on a multiple of X + Y
• changing gauge
• determining yarn weight
• increasing evenly across a row
• substituting yarn

Misc

• fringe
• pom-poms: attaching a faux-fur pompom to a hat
• pom-poms: with the clover pom-pom maker
• re-using/reconditioning yarn

Needles

• knitting needle sizes

Picking Up Stitches

• picking up and knitting stitches
• picking up underarm stitches

Reading

• cable symbols
• knit chart symbols
• reading a chart
  
• reading your knitting (making sense of what you're looking at)
• reading a pattern
• Stitch Fiddle: chart drafting software

Seaming & Sewing

• crochet seam
• mattress stitch
• sewing on buttons
• sewing blanket squares together

Short Rows

• german short rows
• japanese short rows
• shadow wrap short rows
• wrap & turn short rows

Sizes

• standard body measurements & sizes
• blanket size chart
• button size chart

Slip Stitch

• slip stitch (with yarn in back or front) 
• Sl1 WYIF 

Socks

• Learn to Knit Socks
• Bulky Sleep Socks
• Craftsy Class: My First Socks with Lucy Neatby
• Craftsy Class: My First Toe-Up Socks
• Fibre Co 'One Sock' (top-down)
• Summer Lee Design Co (multiple tutorials)
• Toe-Up Gusset Socks
• Toe-Up Magic Loop Socks
• Toe-Up Socks with German Short-Rows
• Very Pink Knits list of Sock Tutorials (multiple tutorials)
• 2 socks at a time on 2 circular needles

Software

• Knitbird (chartmaker)
• knitting graph paper generator
• Stitchfiddle  (chartmaker)
• Colour palettes
• Random Stripe Generator

Stitch Markers

• stitch markers
• stitch markers: in lace

Stripes

• carrying colours for stripes
• carrying multiple colours for stripes (3 or more)
• helix knitting (jogless 1 row stripes)
• jogless stripes in the round (3 ways)
• random stripe generator

Sweaters

• Avoiding Underarm Holes (closing holes in the underarms when picking up stitches)
• Avoid Holes in Underarms

Winding Yarn

• wind yarn from a skein

Working in the Round 

• circular needles
• jogless stripes in the round (3 ways)
• joining in the round
• magic loop
• working in the round on 2 circular needles
• working in the round on double-pointed needles

Yarn Over (YO)

• double yarn over
• yarn-over
• yarn-over: between a knit & a purl