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Two hands stretching sock cuff to illustrate how stretchy the cast on is.

Old Norwegian Cast On

Stocking Stitch swatch with narrower bottom edge because the cast on is too tight.

Cast On Too Tight?

Estimate Tail Length for Cast On

Long Tail Cast On

Wedge-shaped swatch on three needles shaped with short rows and featuring shadow wrap twin stitches on two sides.

Shadow Wrap Short Rows

Turkish Cast On

Turkish Cast On

Fingers hold down pink unrolled hem that has just been replaced on a piece of colourful knitting.

Hem Replacement

Two colours of yarn joined together with a felting technique.

Spit Splicing Two Colours

Raised Increases Video Tutorial

Red and black buffalo plaid pattern created with slip stitches and intarsia techniques.

Checkered Stitch Pattern

Tutorial for left-leaning decreases in the centre of lace stripes.

SSK & SSP Decreases

Cabled Decreases

Centred Double Decrease

Short rows creating an angled final row on the needles.

Japanese Short Rows

Double column of knit stitches joining two edges. Looks similar to a three needle bind off.

Double Bind Off

Stitch pattern of deeply textured ridges similar to garter stitch.

Double Garter Stitch

Stitches cast onto a larger needle with the lower edge of the cast on wrapped around a smaller needle.

Double Needle Cast On

Double-Wrap Long Tail Cast On

Three cables at the centre front neckline of a fisherman's rib pullover.

Fisherman’s Rib Cable

Waste Yarn Placeholder

Needle felting needle resting on wrong side of knitted fabric with a pile of loose fibre.

Mending By Needle Felting

Colourful garter stitch parallelograms forming chevrons and joined using a modular technique.

Modular Chevron Tutorial

Raised increases along a sleeve seam.

Raised Increases Photo Tutorial

Embellishing with a Crochet Hook

Embroidery Embellishment

Embroidery Embellishment

Steam billowing out of a hand held steamer held over a hand knit sleeve piece.

Three double pointed needles with a knitted finger extending behind them, propped up on a white surface.

Working Very Small Circumferences in the Round

Sewn Bind Off Tutorial with No Sewing

Picot cast on showing little nubs descending from cast on edge.

Top edge of pocket is joined to body while knitting across the row.

Ruby Pocket Part III

Ruby Pocket Part II

Contrasting yarn threaded through a stitch in a row below stitches on the needle, reserving the first stitch to be used in the kangaroo pocket.

Ruby Pocket Part I

Kangaroo Pocket Seam

Sewn bind off that looks like a long tail cast on.

“Long Tail” Bind Off

Uneven edge with straight seam stitched with crochet hook.

Curvy Seam Allowance, Straight Seams

With this ring …

A seam in the works on a textured fabric with alternating stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch stripes; selvedge sts are all stocking stitch.

Reverse Stocking Stitch Seams

Winding a Centre-Pull Ball by Hand

Sliding Loop method of replacing a block of intarsia with a different colour.

Sliding Loop Technique