Knitting Essentials 2 DVD $28.95

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Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) is continued with this second DVD in the Lucy Neatby Knitting Essential series.

Create and use an easy provisional edge, knitting in the round on circular needles and defusing an accidental twist, learn the basics of cutting your knitting... with or without a steek, experience joyous grafting without loose stitches to take care of sock toes, and oodles more.

Running Time: 2 hours 10 mins.

Please scroll down to see all chapters of each section.

Bind-Off Methods

Modified conventional (kw)

Modified conventional (pw)

Three Needle

 

Cast-On Methods

Provisional crochet

Removing the provisional edge

Knitting down flat

Knitting into a crochet chain

Cast-off, cast-on

First row after provisional

In the round, provisional edge

 

Circular Needles

Advantages and options

Casting on, joining the round and checking for twists

Starting second round

Right or left hand?

Two-hand training

Stranding and working inverted

Simulation of circular knitting

 

Cutting Your Knitting

Unplanned cutting

Pre-planned: making a steek

Sewing the steek

Preparing to cut, blocking

Cutting and eliminating ends

Finishing the cut edge

 

More Finishing Basics

A finishing strategy

Mattress stitch & refinements

Adding more sewing yarn

Adjusting mis-matched edges

Preplanning for finishing

Avoiding premature finishing

Slipping selvage stitches?

Mattress st. for stranded fabric

Knitting up new stitches

Grafting stitches tops to tops

Setting stitches to rows with WY

Sts to rows with a BO edge

 

Grafting

Grafting sts tops to tops using WY

The half-stitch joggle

Grafting tops to top with a stripe

Grafting v. three needle bind-off

Grafting toes (Kitchener stitch):

Make the sock Toe Chimney

Using the sock Toe Chimney

Neatening tails from a sock toe

 

Miscellaneous

Coil-less pins

Yarn butterflies

Wraps per inch (W.P.I.)

Running yarn markers / Knitting in the round on dpns

Slip knot

Threading a darning needle

The Contented Stitch

Hill Stitches and valley loops