In this post, you can find the detailed instructions on how to knit a bear paw hat. This is a rather difficult pattern with intarsia knitting, so I would advise you not to attempt it until you are very confident in your knitting skills. This pattern requires intarsia knitting skills. If you are not familiar […]
Cable Hat Pattern
In this post you can find the instructions for a great hat with a cable pattern. To find out more about cable knitting and various cable knitting patterns, check out this post. The Basics Yarn: Double knitting weightNeedles: 5 mm (US size 8)Tension: 24sts and 26 rows to 4 inches (10 cm) over pattern. Check […]
Textured Coaster and Place Mat Knitting Patterns
In this post, you can find an overview of three great and simple textured knitting patterns for coasters and place mats. These are a checkerboard pattern, a zigzag pattern and a mock cable pattern. You can find the knitting instructions for the place mats after the coasters on this article. Materials: Any double knit yarn, […]
Cable Knitting
Cables are a feature of Aran garments. They are formed by twisting knit stitches around each other as you knit them. They tend to be created from knit stitches on a background of reverse stocking stitch (stockinette) as that makes the cable stitches stand out from the background. Many effects and patterns can be created […]
Stitch Library
Included below is a small sample of different stitch designs. These are some of the most common and my favorite stitch designs that are possible with simple knit and purl stitches. I suggest you practice the designs here and then experiment or check out one of the excellent books available with many, many more stitch […]
Fair Isle Knitting / Stranded Knitting
Fair Isle Knitting, or stranded knitting, is knitting with two or more colors in the same row. The colors that are not being worked are carried loosely along the back of the work creating ‘floats’. Traditional Fair Isle designs are very small and the colors change frequently so there are never very long floats. If […]
Knitting Decorative Holes – Lace Knitting
Lace knitting produces delicate fabrics with decorative holes. The all over patterns are always a combination of holes and decreases to create different effects. The holes are always created with a yarn over paired with a decrease. The yarn over gives an extra stitch so the decrease is necessary to keep the work straight. To […]
How to Read a Knitting Pattern
Knitting patterns tell you how to knit the pattern and the shape for the garment you want. Many commercially available patterns are written out row by row using shorthand and abbreviations. You will soon get to know how to read these. The alternative, which is often used in knitting magazines to save space, is to […]
Checking Knitting Tension or Gauge
It’s vitally important to check your knitting tension or gauge before knitting up a project. Otherwise, your finished garment could be either too small or too big. There is nothing more heartbreaking than spending hours and hours knitting a pullover only to find it is several sizes too big once finished and has to be […]