10 rows a day

When a pattern tells us to evenly increase or decrease stitches in a row, that means that we have to do some basic math to figure out how many stitches we should leave between the increases / decreases and how to make sure those increases / decreases are more or less centred, so that the […]

There is a number of ways to create a stretchy bind off. We discussed some of them in this tutorial, but every one of them has its own peculiarities. This tutorial is about the easiest way to make a stretchy bind off, a way that does not require any unusual manipulations with yarn and needles, […]

There is a number of ways to make short rows in knitting. The most common one is called “wrap and turn” (usually shown as w&t in the patterns). It’s not a complicated way, but for some reason, it doesn’t work well for me. Occasionally, I forget to pick the wrap in the next full row, […]

Detailed tutorial for beginners about reasons and ways to use lifeline to make it easier to fix mistakes in any knitting project.

Step-by-step tutorial for beginner knitters about five ways to make the side edges of scarves and blankets neat and tidy.

Step-by-step tutorial for beginners that explains how to make a yarn over and a reversed yarn over in knitting.

Step-by-step tutorial about an alternative way to hold yarn in Continental knitting. This way is more gentle on your fingers and hands.

This tutorial is well overdue – you’ve been asking about the way I knit for quite some time now, but there was always some other exciting technique that I wanted to share with you, so I kept postponing this tutorial. The truth is because I’ve been using Continental knitting style for years, it seemed trivial, […]

There are many ways to do a provisional cast on, but the result is always the same – the cast on edge is not really an “edge”, but a set of open stitches that we can pick up later on. Many of the ways involve a crochet hook, but not all knitters have one or […]

In almost ten years that I’ve been teaching people to knit, I noticed that most beginner (and not just beginner) mistakes happened because of the lack of understanding how the knitted fabric is created. The skill of understanding what happens when we make a stitch, what kind of stitch it is and how it interacts […]