Learn To Knit

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Learn to Knit

Knitting will give you a lifetime of pleasure and relaxation. You can learn to create handmade knits for yourself and people you love. When you give a lovingly knit gift, part of you goes into it. Your time, talent, the yarn and color you select -- even the thoughts and feelings you have as you work -- all become part of your knitted gift. You can learn to knit by following our simple instructions and by the end of chapter 2, you'll be knitting!

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En Español: Aprenda Tejer
En Francais: Apprenez l'art du tricotage

Learn to Knit! It will give you a lifetime of pleasure!

Wondering what one of those abbreviations in your pattern means? Try our illustrated dictionary of knitting and crochet abbreviations.

Table of Contents

Before you start to learn to knit ...

1. Casting On

2. Learning the Knit Stitch

3. Learning the Purl Stitch

4. Ribbing

5. Stockinette Stitch

6. Binding Off

7. Making a Gauge Swatch

8. Joining New Yarn

9. Recovering a dropped stitch

10. Unraveling Stitch by Stitch

11. Avoiding Extra Stitches

12. Increasing

13. Increasing - Making a Simple Increase (Knit into front and back of a stitch)

14. Increasing Between a Stitch (Make One)

15. Increasing - the Yarn Over Increase

16. Decreasing

17. Decreasing - Slip, Slip, Knit (SSK / SSP)

18. Decreasing - Knit/Purl Two Together

19. Slipping Stitches Purlwise and Knitwise

20. Making a cable

21. Knitting into the Back Loop / Front Loop

22. Purling into the Back Loop / Front Loop

23. Finishing / Joining / Sewing Pieces Together

24. Weaving in Ends

25. 3-Needle Bind Off

26. Picking Up Stitches

27. Knitting with Two Strands

28. Duplicate Stitch

29. Grafting (Kitchener Stitch)

30. Left-Handed Knitting

31. Knitting on Circular Needles

As you learn to knit and develop your knitting skills, we hope that you'll want to return to take advantage of the hundreds of free knitting patterns that we offer! These are only a few of our beginning patterns. Fun Projects for Beginning Knitters
Fun Fur:	Headband
Fun Fur:	Knitted Black & White Scarf
Lion Cotton:	Colorful Dish Cloths
Lion Cotton:	One-Hour Potholder
Jiffy^®:	Hood
Homespun^®:	Prayer Shawl

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