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title: Knitting & Crochet
description: Knitting & Crochet are textile crafts used to create fabric from yarn. You will understand how to read patterns, cast on, execute basic stitches, and finish projects like scarves, hats, and blankets using needles or hooks.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: textiles-and-sewing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/knitting-and-crochet
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# Knitting & Crochet

Knitting & Crochet are textile crafts used to create fabric from yarn. You will understand how to read patterns, cast on, execute basic stitches, and finish projects like scarves, hats, and blankets using needles or hooks.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Interweave Knits

Interweave's knitting hub collects magazine patterns, stitch tutorials, and technique articles from Interweave Knits and its sister titles. Readers can follow written instructions for garments and accessories and reference how-to guides for shaping, cables, and finishing.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.interweave.com/knitting

**Tags:** knitting, patterns, techniques, garment-construction, fiber-arts

### 2. Underground Crafter

Marie Segares, a crochet and knitting designer and teacher, publishes free patterns, stitch tutorials, and yarn reviews here, plus business guidance for fiber artists. Readers can work projects from written patterns and compare yarn substitutions.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://undergroundcrafter.com

**Tags:** crochet, knitting, free-patterns, yarn, fiber-arts

### 3. knitty.com

Knitty is an online knitting magazine offering free, designer-made patterns along with tutorials and technique articles to help knitters of all levels.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://knitty.com

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, textile-sewing

### 4. ravelry.com

Ravelry is a knitting and crochet community and pattern database. It offers a vast library of patterns and yarns, project and stash management, and forums for sharing ideas and tips.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ravelry.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

## Podcasts

### 1. VeryPink Knits

**Author:** Staci Perry

VeryPink Knits, the companion podcast to the VeryPink Knits YouTube channel, focused on answering your knitting questions.  With Staci Perry and Polly Baker.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://verypink.com/

**Tags:** knitting, tutorials, techniques, troubleshooting, podcast

## Books

### 1. Stitch ‘n Bitch

**Author:** Debbie Stoller

Debbie Stoller's handbook covers tools, yarn choice, casting on, basic stitches, gauge, and pattern reading, followed by a collection of patterns. A new knitter can use it to complete scarves, hats, bags, and simple sweaters.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761128182?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts

### 2. The Knitting Book

**Author:** Vikki Haffenden and Frederica Patmore

A DK reference organized around techniques rather than projects, with photographed steps for casting on, stitch patterns, colourwork, shaping, and finishing, plus a stitch dictionary. Use it to look up and execute an unfamiliar knitting technique.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1405368039?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts

### 3. Crochet: The Complete Guide

**Author:** Jane Davis

Jane Davis opens with tools and basic technique, then presents 150-plus illustrated stitch patterns grouped by type, from shells and post stitches to filet, Irish, and Tunisian crochet, closing with seven projects that use them.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0896896978?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts

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