Basic stitch anatomy
By Megan Goodacre
If you look at stockinette stitch from the right side, you will see that it looks the same upside down as it does right side up.
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How to cast on: Working from a provisional cast on
By Megan Goodacre
This knitting tutorial covers how to work from a crochet chain provisional cast on. You can see the first part of the tutorial at How to cast on: Making a provisional cast on. You can either pick up the live stitches from the crochet chain and work from them, or you can pick them up and graft them to another set of live stitches (very useful if knitting a loop, such as an infinity scarf).
How to cast on: Making a provisional cast on
By Megan Goodacre
This knitting tutorial covers how to knit a provisional cast on using a crocheted chain as the foundation. This crochet technique of making a provisional cast on edge is one of my favourites; it's easy to remember, makes a nice cast on edge to pick up later, and works every time.
How to Block Very Large Things
By Megan Goodacre
I'm a big believer in blocking. More than that, I'm a big believer in wet blocking. But you might notice this gets really awkward when you are dealing with a very large project. A big wet stretchy wooly thing; how do you deal with it? If you're lucky, you've got some dry weather and you can lay it out on a sheet on the lawn.
How to knit a blanket from a shawl pattern
By Megan Goodacre
This project was an experiment. If a top-down triangular shawl, which starts at the center and radiates out to the edges, can be shaped into a diagonal half-square through blocking, could you use the same pattern to make a full square for a blanket? Oh yes, you certainly can.
A scarf that won't curl
By Megan Goodacre
Ah, that's an age-old topic. How to make a knitted scarf that won't curl on the edges.
How to undo your knitting
By Megan Goodacre
No matter how carefully you plan, you will end up with knitting projects where you wish you had an undo button. About 20 steps in the past. This hat is a good example. I made two versions of the Gatineau Hat, but for some reason, the ribbing on the lighter version just didn't sit right. It was a little too loose. I needed to redo it, but didn't have time to remake the whole hat. In the picture above, you see the final, fixed version. In the picture directly below, you can see the original, un-fixed version.
Color dominance in stranded color knitting
By Megan Goodacre
In stranded color knitting (often called Fair Isle knitting), two or more colors are used on each row. If you're new to stranded color knitting, I recommend not worrying about yarn dominance for a while. It's an important concept that will help your color knitting look even more perfect, but not 100% necessary at first.