TECHknitting

includes 8 illustrations click any illustration to enlarge The last post was about starting a chain bind off in the middle of a fabric. ...

8 illustrations Click any illustration to enlarge A buttonhole, a pocket opening, the bottom of a neck opening: these are all examples of b...

This is the first post of a four-post series on the "chain" or "stitch-over-stitch" bind off, also called "cast off...

KFB stands for "knit into the front, and then the back of the same stitch," and is sometimes abbreviated k 1 f, b (knit 1 front, b...

Have you ever given yourself a sore fingertip from pushing back the pointed end of the left knitting needle to bring up the new stitches to ...

CAUTION : There are TWO DIFFERENT METHODS SOMETIMES CALLED "KNIT INTO THE STITCH BELOW" .  The trick shown here makes a thick, cu...

There is the  provisional crocheted cast on . There is  the COWYAK method . But, whatever method you use for provisional cast on, the questi...

Dear Readers: TECHknitting has come to that part of the year when summer travel shuts down the blog. This blog will be on summer vacation u...

click any illustration to enlarge One of the most tedious routines in all of knitting is counting rows or stitches when you have to match tw...