My collection of links to online patterns resources, technical information and instruction, DIY tools, tutorials, and more.
Online Pattern Resources
- Knitting Fool’s Stitch Dictionary (next best thing to Barbara Walker’s Treasury, I suppose)
- Knitting Fool’s Knitting Languages Dictionary (Estonian to …)
- TechKnitting tutorials (turning homemade into handmade)
- Techknitting tutorial for double point needles (really fine)
- Knitting Beyond the Hebrides (Aran, Fair Isle, etc)
- Hipknitism.com (M1 & P1 encroached technique illustrated for sock heels)
- KnittingHelp.com :: Free online Knitting Videos! (Knitting instruction from Cast-on to Bind-off, and everything in between)
- Welcome to StudioKnits (How To Become An Expert Knitter online)
- ABCs of Knitting (knitting basics, generic patterns, and more – including information re: reading Japanese patterns)
- DailyKnitter.com – An on-line resource for knitters
- TECHKnitting tutorials
- Moth Heaven’s intarsia in the round tutorial (left column link)
- Knotions (online knitting magazine
- Knitty.com (online knitting magazine)
- Continental Knit, Continental Purl, left-handed purl
- Eastern Continental Knit & Purl (alternating), Eastern Continental Purl
- Grumperina’s Cabling Without a Cable Needle tutorial (right- and left-twist cables)
- Eunny Jang’s How to Unvent a Cable tutorial
- Knitter’s Review
- Knitter’s Review on dpns (choosing needles, preventing ladders), dpns tutorial
- Joining new yarn (to splice change of colors skeins, etc) – see especially the Russian join tutorial
- Jogless Join Tutorial (and a fine illustrated tutorial here)
- Double (Reversible) Knitting Demo
- Cat Bordhi’s video tutorial on knitting in the round with two circular needles Part 1 and Part 2
- ting with two circular needles (New Pathways)
- Latvian Mittens charts
- German knitting terms and abbreviations
- French knitting dictionary
- Multi-language knitting terms (includes Italian, Spanish
- Multi-language crochet terms (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish!)
- Some Dutch and Danish terms as well
- International Dictionary of Crochet terms
- Wiseneedle needlwork glossary search
- Magic Ring tutorial (crochet), and another
Casting-on
- TECHknitting tutorial cast on from the middle – disappearing loop method
- Rosemary’s Provisional Cast-on tutorial (crochet onto the needle directly!)
- Combination Knit & Purl demo (Annie Modesitt / “German Twisted” method, all sts set up ‘backwards’)
- Tubular Cast On tutorial, TECHKnitting’s tubular cast-on tutorial
- Italian Tubular cast-on: No waste yarn tubular cast-on (still photo illustrations with text and video))
- Long=tail tubular cast-on (alternating knit and purl sts) demo
- Golden Apples’ suggestions for calculating yardage for cast-on (great suggestions)
- Braided Cast-On
- Beaded Picot Cast-On (scroll down for Rosemary’s tutorial)
- Knitting.com casting on tutorials
- FluffBuff’s Tubular Cast-on Without the Waste [Yarn] tutorial
- Tubular cast-on for ribbing (Purl-Wise tutorial): Start with a provisional cast on from a crochet chain and knit a few rows. Start ribbing … Alternate between, 1. Purl two stitches on left needle, and 2. Pick up and knit stitches from crochet chain (horizontal bumps) twice. After working a few rows undo crochet chain and pull out waste yarn.
- Cat Bordhi’s demo of (Judy Becker’s) Magic Cast-on tutorial
- Crochet Button Covers tutorial
- Cat Bordhi demonstrates “stitch mount” or stitch direction, and SSK decrease (slip, slip, knit tog)
- Disappearing Loop cast-on (Emily Ocker’s technique, TECHKnitting tutorial; to start circular knitting “from the top” – ie. topknot of hats, etc)
- Knotions Short Rows tutorial (wrap & turn method)
- Estonian cast on, modified Estonian for 2×1 rib,
- 2-stranded tubular cast on
Increases & Decreases
- M1 / M1 purlwise Tutorial
- Knotions Lifted Increases tutorial (and here)
- Tatao’s illustrated stranded (“ladder”) and yo increases
- S1, K1, PSSO demo
- K2tog demo
- Bordhi: SSK (slip slip knit 2 tog) demo
- Decrease tutorial for a flat-topped (non-puckering) hat
Binding off
- TECHKnitting tubular cast-off
- Russian Bind Off demo
- Double-wrapped Cast-off
- I-Cord Bind-off demo
- Beaded bind-off tutorial by Splityarn
Finishing
- Wooly Wormhead’s Kitchener Stitch tutorial (grafting knitwise/stockinette or purl-wise/garter)
- garter kitchener tutorial
Circular Knitting
Brioche Stitch Knitting
- Nancy Marchant Brioche Stitch site
- Brioche set-up row demo – English, Combined
- Brioche in the round demo
- 2-color Brioche rib demo
I-Cord
Socks
- DIY Sock Blocker
- Sundara’s Yarn-over Short-row Toe-up Sock tutorial
- Short Row Toe/Heel Tutorial with Provisional Cast On
- M1 / M1 purlwise Tutorial (especially good for socks)
- Working heel of sock tutorial on Knitting Help.com Advanced Techniques page (video link here)
- Cat Bordhi’s “Concealed Wrap & Turn” video tutorials (Part 1 & Part 2)
- Heel types defined and illustrated
- German Band Heel Tutorial (and a simple pattern here)
- Linen stitch heel flap
Novelties? Some interesting tutorials
- DIY Mitten Blocker
- Knitting Row Counter tutorial
- Knitting rings with dpns for donuts, chains – downloads video demos as well
- Keychain Crochet Hook tutorial
- Monkey’s Fist button tutorial
- Crochet buttons instructions by YarnForward
- Crochet button covers instructions
- Sew Useful: Make Your Own Buttons tutorial
- Circular (or dpns) needle case tutorials – Splityarn
- Yarn swift, duct tape swift
- Power drill yarn winder
Making Charts
- MicroRevolt’s KnitPro chartmaker
- Knitty.com on knitting charts, and graph paper link
- Marnie Maclean on Excel and colorwork charts
- Marnie maclean on Excel and cable charts
- Marnie Maclean on Excel for lace charts
- How to make a fair isle/intarsia chart on Excel tutorial
- Knitting in Color distinguishes fair isle vs other stranded (ie. Latvian) knitting and charts here
- Knitter’s Graph Paper (Sweaterscapes)
- Chart Creator
- KnitChart
I am looking for instructions for a Latvian cord to be used as a finishing technique
There are many fine tutorials and explanations of Latvian finishing techniques online, as well as in recent knitting publications. A quick Google search should turn up what you need. Good luck!