General Tutorials
If you are looking for general help on the internet I always recommend the following two resources to new knitters:
Knittinghelp.com: All the basics with great videos and photos!
Very Pink Knits: I usually just google whatever I’m searching for (ex. “knit 2 together”) and “very pink knits” and the right video pops up!
Chickadee Knitting Club (for KIDS): Season 1 covers casting on, knitting & binding off. Season 2 starts with purling and moves into stitches combining knit & purl.
Project Tutorials
You can find a list of video tutorials that take you through an entire knitting project HERE.
Abbreviations
- knitting abbreviations
Basic Stitches
- knit stitch
- purl stitch
- seed stitch
- twisted knit stitches
Beginner Knitting
- Beginner Knitting
- Kids: Beginner Knitting
Bind-Off (Cast-Off)
- bind-off
- bind-off: in the middle of a row
- bind off: in pattern
- bind off: last stitch neatly
- icelandic bind-off
- i-cord bind off (2 methods: classic & Meg Swansen)
- jenny’s surprisingly stretchy bind-off (3 ways)
- simple stretchy bind-off
- sloped bind-off
- three needle bind-off
- tubular bind-off
Blocking
- blocking blankets
- blocking hats
- blocking wires
- garment fitting & blocking
- general blocking techniques & overview
- steam blocking
- wet blocking
Brioche
- Basic Brioche
Cables
- cables
- cables: without a cable needle
- cable symbols
- bobbles
Cast-On
- backwards loop cast-on
- cable cast-on
- cast-on: at start of row
- cast-on: in the middle of a row
- crochet cast-on (great for provisional)
- garter tab cast-on (for shawls)
- german twisted cast-on
- i-cord cast-on
- invisible provisional cast-on
- judy’s magic cast-on
- knitted cast-on
- long-tail/slingshot cast-on
- provisional cast-on
- tubular cast-on
- tubular cast-on in the round
- 1 x 1 long-tail tubular cast-on (2 rows)
- turkish cast-on
Circular Needles
see also “Working in the Round”
- knitting flat on circular needles
Colourwork
- fair isle techniques
- carrying fair isle floats
- learn to knit fair isle hat
- intarsia
- mosaic knititng
- choosing colours: colour palettes
Decrease
- centre double decrease
- K2tog (knit 2 together)
- SSK (slip, slip, knit)
- SSP (slip, slip, purl)
Ends
- joining a new ball of yarn
- weaving in ends
- weaving in ends: as you go
- weaving in ends: garter stitch
- weaving in ends: in ribbing
- weaving in ends: seed stitch
- weaving in ends: stripes
Fixing Mistakes
- beginner mistakes
- colour change jog
- dropped stitch (slow motion)
- dropped cast-on stitch
- undoing stitches: ‘tinking’
- undoing stitches: decreases
Gauge/Tension & Swatching
- checking gauge
- gauge swatch
- swatching
- swatching in the round
Grafting
- grafting in ribbing
- kitchener stitch
- kitchener stitch (in slow motion)
i-Cord
- i-cord
Increase
- KFB
- M1L & M1R
- M1 increases (Slow Motion)
- M1P
- M1PL & M1PR
- Lifted Increases: RL1 & LL1
Lace
- lace basics
- lifelines
Loom Knitting
- Loom Knitting for Beginners
Math
- calculating yardage on a partial ball of yarn
- casting on a multiple of X + Y
- changing gauge
- determining yarn weight
- increasing evenly across a row
- substituting yarn
Misc
- fringe
- pom-poms: attaching a faux-fur pompom to a hat
- pom-poms: with the clover pom-pom maker
- re-using/reconditioning yarn
Needles
- knitting needle sizes
Picking Up Stitches
- picking up and knitting stitches
- picking up underarm stitches
Reading
- cable symbols
- knit chart symbols
- reading a chart
- reading your knitting (making sense of what you’re looking at)
- reading a pattern
- Stitch Fiddle: chart drafting software
Seaming & Sewing
- crochet seam
- mattress stitch
- sewing on buttons
- sewing blanket squares together
Short Rows
- german short rows
- japanese short rows
- shadow wrap short rows
- wrap & turn short rows
Sizes
- standard body measurements & sizes
- blanket size chart
- button size chart
Slip Stitch
- slip stitch (with yarn in back or front)
- Sl1 WYIF
Socks
- Learn to Knit Socks
- Bulky Sleep Socks
- Craftsy Class: My First Socks with Lucy Neatby
- Craftsy Class: My First Toe-Up Socks
- Fibre Co ‘One Sock’ (top-down)
- Summer Lee Design Co (multiple tutorials)
- Toe-Up Gusset Socks
- Toe-Up Magic Loop Socks
- Toe-Up Socks with German Short-Rows
- Very Pink Knits list of Sock Tutorials (multiple tutorials)
- 2 socks at a time on 2 circular needles
Software
- Knitbird (chartmaker)
- knitting graph paper generator
- Stitchfiddle (chartmaker)
- Colour palettes
- Random Stripe Generator
Stitch Markers
- stitch markers
- stitch markers: in lace
Stripes
- carrying colours for stripes
- carrying multiple colours for stripes (3 or more)
- helix knitting (jogless 1 row stripes)
- jogless stripes in the round (3 ways)
- random stripe generator
Sweaters
- Avoiding Underarm Holes (closing holes in the underarms when picking up stitches)
- Avoid Holes in Underarms
Winding Yarn
- wind yarn from a skein
Working in the Round
- circular needles
- jogless stripes in the round (3 ways)
- joining in the round
- magic loop
- working in the round on 2 circular needles
- working in the round on double-pointed needles
Yarn Over (YO)
- double yarn over
- yarn-over
- yarn-over: between a knit & a purl