Knitting Essentials 1 DVD $28.95

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Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) begins with this Knitting Essentials 1. It contains knitter's-eye-view shots, accompanied by Lucy's informal commentary and unique teaching methods on how to master techniques, why you might wish to use them and what exactly is going on.

Control your cast-ons, try innovative bind-off methods, make increases and decreases in more than one way, apply finishing basics, pick up tips on reading your knitting and discover the hidden secrets of contented stitches.

Running Time: 2 hours 10 mins.

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Bind-Off Methods

Temporary

Regular

Regular with crochet hook

The last stitch conundrum!

Regular for rib

Three-needle

Matching vertical columns

Modified conventional (kw)

 

Cast-On Methods

Loop

Long-Tail (with two hands)

Adjusting width

Adjusting the tension

Looking after your tail yarn

Long-Tail (one-hand)

Long-Tail extra strong elastic

Long-Tail as provisional

Knitted

Cable

 

Decreases

Right-slanting (k2t)

Left-slanting (ssk)

Ssk versus sl-k1-psso

Left-slanting (ssk) variations

Fully-fashioned

Double decreases

Kindness to outside stitches

Decs focussed and scattered

Reading decreases

 

Finishing Basics

Tidying up the junk

Matress Stitch basics

Knitting (picking) up

Three-needle bind off

 

Gauge Matters

Needle / Yarn / Stitches

 

Increases

Right slanting increase

Left slanting increase

Make one

Make one with a twist

Reading your increases

 

Useful Miscellanea

Coil-less pins

Yarn butterflies

Running yarn marker and knitting in the round on dpns

Slip knot

Setting up a swift

Ball winder & centre-pull balls

Threading a darning needle

Right v. left yarn manipulation

 

Odds and Knitting in Ends

Knitting in a tail

Tail neatening whilst purling

The balancing act!

Ends and darning needle skills

Ends at the edges

Splicing and spit splicing

Cheering up unhappy stitches

 

Rescue Remedies

Laddering back knits and purls

Ripping back wholesale

Ripping back slowly

 

Secrets of Contented Stitches

The Contented Stitch

Hills stitches and valley loops

Balancing stitches

How stitches are made

Stitch mount, yarn rotation

Controlling stitch size

Stitch abuse, unhappy stitches

Slipping stitches / stitch mount

Twisted stitches

Reading your knitting