Glossary and Abbreviations

• From Vogue Knitting

Links to How-To Illustrations:

• The Basics
  • Beyond Knit and Purl (videos)
    From fixing mistakes and joining yarn to making i-cords and winding up a center-pull ball.
  • Casting on : Several techniques in Video!
  • Crochet Abbreviations/Resources
  • Crochet Stitches
  • Knit Stitch : Continental and English methods in Video!
  • Purl Stitch : Continental and English plus Backwards in Video!
• Increasing
  • Increases : all the techniques you’ll ever need (videos)
• Decreasing
  • Decreases – Learn to lean left or right (videos)
• Binding-Off and Finishing
  • Binding off : several options (video)
  • Kitchener Stitch
  • Short Rows – avoiding the hole
• Cables
  • Cable Grapher
  • Cabling without a cable needle
    Cool! great pictures
  • Compensating for a cable
• Colorwork
  • Duplicate Stitch
    AKA ‘Swiss Darning’
  • Intarsia
    A good overview
  • Intarsia
    Illustrations
  • Intarsia vs. Fair Isle
    Comparison with pictures of example sweaters

• Illusion Knitting
  • Hearts pattern chart
  • Instructions – at the bottom of the page for hand knitters
  • More Illustion patterns
    With instructions on converting machine patterns to hand knit
  • Shetha’s illusion hat
• Oops!
  • Fixing a dropped stitch
• Other
  • Beads and Knitting
  • Button Hole – one row
  • Design: Custom graphs in PDF format for charting colorwork
  • Design: Knitting on the Bias
    PDF (205 kb)
  • Dyeing: Kool Aid
  • Dyeing: Natural Dyes
  • Edges: Tubular as you knit
    PDF (177 kb)
  • Fulling/Felting
  • Method: Knitting without Turning
  • Sizing: Explanation of Ease and Internal Measurement
  • Translate any Knitting Term from almost any language
  • Washing and reusing yarn
  • Yarn care symbols

Design

• Canadian Knitwear Designers & Artisans
• Getting Published – Designing for Magazines
• Getting Published – Writing a Knitting Book
• Yahoo Knit Design Group