A Year of Techniques brings you 12 patterns and tutorials to upgrade your knitting skills. With projects from world-class designers accompanied by clear step-wise tutorials and online videos, there’s always something new to learn.
Techniques covered in this book are:
Afterthought heels and thumbs
Garter stitch grafting
Helical stripes
Intarsia
Judy’s magic cast on (both for starting closed tubes and as a provisional cast on)
Knitting on a border
Mastering dominance in Fair Isle knitting
Pinhole cast on (also known as Emily Ocker’s circular cast on)
Reading cables from charts
Short rows
Steeks and
Turning a heel