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How To

Tips, tricks, hints and hacks for the knitter in search of a better way.

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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Steeks!

We complete our course with the knitterly equivalent of bungee jumping: cutting a steek.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Fair Isle Color Dominance!

How to make that colorwork pattern dance.

By Kay Gardiner
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Afterthought Heel!

Easier socks! We welcome the technique that can potentially banish the phrase “heel flap” from your vocabulary.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Cables!

This is it: Jen’s excellent video on how to read a cable chart, and how to knit with and without a cable needle. Life changing!

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Garter Stitch Short Rows!

A sleek, modern hat from Woolly Wormhead that teaches two easy ways to work short rows.

By Kay Gardiner
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Grafting in Garter Stitch!

The clever way to make an endless loop of garter stitch. News you can use!

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Provisional Cast On!

Wow: a modern, beautiful blanket for the modern, beautiful baby. A Year of Techniques introduces a gorgeous new pattern.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Heel Turn!

Turning a heel on a sock is one of knitting’s magic tricks. Learn how it works now, for always.

By Kay Gardiner
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Knitted-on Edging!

This month, we’re making a very cute hat by the lace wizard Romi Hill. It’s a beauty, so cleverly constructed.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Pinhole Cast On!

Big day! We introduce the new project in A Year of Techniques: Ella Austin’s cheese-loving, seed-hiding, unusually lanky fellow.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Intarsia!

Bristol Ivy’s pattern and Jen Arnall-Culliford’s video are all we need to conquer Mt. Intarsia.

By Ann Shayne
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A Year of Techniques

A Year of Techniques: Helical Stripes!

Helical stripes? We’d never heard of them either. Brilliant simplicity.

By Kay Gardiner
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