Category: Knitting Guides

Do you hate sewing up after you have finished your knitting? Or struggle to sew your work together neatly? Learn this technique called ‘ladder’ or ‘mattress’ stitch to make sewing up quicker and easier. ‘Ladder’ or ‘mattress’ stitch creates a very neat, flat seam to

You’ll often hear people talking about their ‘tension’ or ‘gauge’ when it comes to knitting. Tension/gauge is how many stitches/rows an average knitter will achieve in a given measurement. Often this measurement is done knitted in stocking-stitch (knit a row, purl a row), however occasionally

Next up in our Knitting Know How series is how to cable. In this post we will demonstrate how to cable back and front. Your pattern may instruct you to C6B or C6F, which means to cable 6 stitches back, or cable 6 stitches front.

When you start knitting, you’ll hear a lot of people tell you to “check your dye lot”, but what is a dye lot? A dye lot is the batch that the wool has been dyed in. So, you may have 2 balls of the same

Ever read through a pattern and have no idea what it’s telling you to do? Often patterns will abbreviate what to do and it can be quite confusing. We have included a lot of the regularly used abbreviations below to try and help you out

Have you reached the end of your work and now unsure how to cast off? Follow this step by step guide below where we teach you how to cast off: Click here to download a copy to print and keep for future help!