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Knitting Lessons
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Welcome and Swatch Guidelines -
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| Tools of the Trade -
 | Skills needed: Desire to buy all kinds
of knitting related products |
| This lesson will teach you about
 | Yarn types and fibers |
| Yarn weight |
| Reading yarn labels |
| Knitting needles |
| Other knitting tools |
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| Getting Started with Knit and Purl -
| Skills needed: Patience |
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Make a slip knot |
| Cast on |
| Hold and tension your yarn |
| Make a knit stitch |
| Create garter stitch |
| Make a purl stitch |
| Create stockinette stitch |
| Bind off |
| Measure Gauge |
| Determine a knit stitch from a purl
stitch |
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| Advanced Beginner Skills -
| Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on,
knit stitch, purl stitch, binding off |
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Weave in ends |
| Join a new yarn |
| Work stripes |
| Learn abbreviations |
| Read patterns |
| Reach charts |
| Learn the difference between a project
pattern and a stitch pattern |
| Keep your place in a pattern |
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| Shaping with Increasing and Decreasing -
| Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on,
knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, weaving in ends |
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Work common increases |
| Work common decreases |
| Mirror increases and decreases |
| Perform double decreases |
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| Stitch Anatomy and Common Mistakes
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| Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on,
knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, weaving in ends |
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Recognize your stitches and read your
knitting |
| Learn the right side vs. wrong side of
your work and why it matters |
| Undoing small and larger portions of
your knitting |
| How to fix a dropped stitch |
| Correcting a mistake several rows back
without unraveling |
| Changing a knit stitch to a purl
stitch and vice versa |
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| Working in the Round
| Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on,
knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, increases and decreases,
weaving in ends, ribbing, choosing an appropriate cast on method |
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Learn rules and modifications for
working in the round |
| Work with circular needles |
| Work with double point needles |
| Work magic loop |
| Avoiding common problems in circular
knitting |
| Adapting patterns for circular
knitting |
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| More Advanced Beginner Skills (COMING
SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Work in the round |
| Work ribbing |
| Increase and decrease in ribbing |
| Work short rows |
| Pick up stitches |
| Twisted stitches |
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| More Cast On and Cast Off Methods
(COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Cast on using several methods |
| Cast off using several methods |
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| Perfect Finishing (COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Weave in ends |
| Seam |
| Graft (kitchener stitch) |
| Block your finished project |
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| Learning Cables (COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Figure out how cables work |
| Learn the intricacies of how cables
turn and make patterns |
| Design your own cable motif |
| Incorporate cable stitches into
existing patterns |
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| Creating Lace (COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Learn the intricacies creating lace |
| Use a lifeline |
| Design your own lace patterns |
| Incorporate lace into existing
patterns |
| Finish lace beautifully |
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| Working in Color (COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Work in intarsia |
| Work modular knitting patterns |
| Work entralac |
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| Learn to Knit Socks from the Cuff Down
(COMING SOON!)
| This lesson will teach you how to
| Learn the parts of a sock |
| Figure out sock sizing and proper
dimensions |
| Knit a sock using double point
needles, magic loop and two circulars |
| Make a heel flap |
| Pick up stitches |
| Turn a heel |
| Perform all necessary gusset and toe
decreases |
| Graft a toe |
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