A lifeline is a way to unravel your knitting safely. It’s an excellent tool for rescuing your knitting when you’ve made a mistake. Lifelines works like this: using a tapestry needle, insert a strand of yarn into a row of stitches. This strand of yarn is your “lifeline.” Then continue knitting as normal. If you make a mistake, unravel your knitting to the lifeline, which is holding ... keep reading >>
Techniques
How to Knit a Stretchy Bind Off
In this post I’m going to show you how to knit a stretchy bind off step by step for a regular knit bind off and a rib bind off. This knitting technique will help you create a very stretchy edge. This extra stretch is handy when binding off the cuffs of sweaters, socks, mittens and necklines, not to mention the brims of hats. Anytime you need a very stretchy edge, look no further than this ... keep reading >>
How to Join Yarn with the Spit Splice
Balls of yarn aren’t endless. At some point, they run out. When that happens, you’ll need to join a new ball of yarn to keep knitting. Just as there are many roads to Rome, so too are there many ways to join yarn together. The spit splice is one of those handy and slightly weird knitting hacks that seamlessly joins two strands of yarns together. The join is permanent and doesn’t require ... keep reading >>
How to Join Yarn Together the Invisible Way (Russian Join)
Today, I’ll show you my favourite way to join yarn in knitting. This method has served me well over the years. Not a single join has ever come undone (knock wood!) Why Do You Need to Join Yarn? Everything that has a beginning has an end. And so it is with yarn. Balls of yarn inevitably run out, and when that happens you’ll need to join new yarn to your work. There are many ways to join ... keep reading >>
How to Bind Off in Pattern (Easy Tutorial)
Binding off in pattern is a technique that's often used when you're binding off rib stitch. Unlike a regular bind off, where you knit all the stitches on the bind off row, binding off in pattern requires that you knit the bind off row as if you were working the next row of your stitch pattern. The result is a bind off that seamlessly blends into your stitch pattern. It can also keep the ... keep reading >>
What is Worsted Weight Yarn? – A Beginner’s Guide
If you're wondering, “what's worsted weight yarn?” then you've come to the right place! Yarns come in many shapes and sizes. They can be as thin as a cobweb (like a lace-weight) and as thick as a soda can (like jumbo yarn for arm knitting). Worsted weight yarn is a medium weight yarn that sits in the middle of the yarn weight family. Its medium thickness means that it's great for ... keep reading >>
Knitting Needle Sizes and Conversion Chart (Free Printable)
Knitting needle sizes can be confusing. That's because different countries have different ways of numbering their knitting needles. While the US and the UK use the same metric sizes, their numbering systems run in opposite directions. In the US, needle sizes start at 0 and increase to 50. However, in the UK, sizes start at 14 and go up to 000. In Japan, knitting needles use different ... keep reading >>
