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Advanced • 5 lessons
Take your knitting up a notch or two! Now that you've mastered all those beginner techniques, you can develop your skills with five FREE knitting videos that cover those tricky techniques. Pick just one of these tutorials or watch all five, the choice is yours. Don't forget, you can watch even more videos and refresh your skills with a Let's Knit Together membership.
Course created by
Neti Love & Julie Peasgood
Take your knitting up a notch or two! Now that you've mastered all those beginner techniques, you can develop your skills with five FREE knitting videos that cover those tricky techniques. Pick just one of these tutorials or watch all five, the choice is yours. Don't forget, you can watch even more videos and refresh your skills with a Let's Knit Together membership.
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Course Overview
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Price |
Included with Let’s Knit Together membership |
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Instructor |
Neti Love & Julie Peasgood |
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Lessons |
5 |
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Difficulty |
Advanced |
Course Lessons ( 5 )
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1. How to: join with Kitchener stitch
8:43
Kitchener Stitch is a great way to create a seamless join between two edges, for example, on the toes of socks or tips of mittens. Holding two needles parallel, you’ll graft the two sides together for a non-bulky seam using a tapestry needle.
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2. How to: work cables (C4F/C4B)
09:21
To knit a cable, you'll temporarily hold a specified number of stitches at the front (F) or back (B) of your knitting, while you work others – the method is the same. This swaps the order and creates the twist effect.
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3. How to: work stripes (carrying yarn up side)
05:36
Whether plain or patterned, stripes are a great way to add colour. With narrow bands, it's best to carry yarn up the side to use again, and this minimises yarn tails, too.
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4. How to: avoid accidental increases
04:32
It can be easy to create extra stitches, either by splitting your yarn or with extra yarn overs on your needle, so here are the telltale signs to watch out for.
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5. How to: work a left twist stitch
5:34
There are lots of different twist stitches, usually worked over against a contrast background, and often as a column of stitches for extra effect. Here, we’re creating a left twist, without a cable needle.
