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title: Knitting
description: Knitting is the craft of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn using needles. You will understand stitch patterns, tension, and garment construction to create items like sweaters, hats, and blankets.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: textiles-and-sewing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/knitting
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# Knitting

Knitting is the craft of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn using needles. You will understand stitch patterns, tension, and garment construction to create items like sweaters, hats, and blankets.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 5 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Knit Picks Tutorials

Free library of video and illustrated written tutorials from yarn company Knit Picks, covering cast-ons, bind-offs, increases, decreases, cables, colorwork, and finishing. Knitters can look up and practice specific techniques as they come up in patterns.

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

**Link:** https://www.knitpicks.com/tutorials

**Tags:** knitting, knitting-techniques, video-tutorials, cast-on, finishing

### 2. Techknitting

Long-running blog by the knitter known as TECHknitter, explaining techniques through detailed hand-drawn illustrations, including invisible joins, better buttonholes, jogless stripes, and fixes for common mistakes. Knitters learn why methods work and how to produce neater, more durable pieces.

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

**Link:** https://techknitting.blogspot.com

**Tags:** knitting, knitting-techniques, finishing, troubleshooting, illustrated-tutorials

### 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

### 5. coletterie.com

Coletterie is a sewing-focused resource from Colette Patterns offering beginner-friendly tutorials, technique guides, and step-by-step garment projects to help you learn sewing basics and patternmaking.

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

**Link:** https://www.seamwork.com/articles

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

## Youtubes

### 1. Knit and Crochet Ever After

Learn to knit with Knit and Crochet Ever After! Beginner-friendly tutorials and creative projects await on this YouTube channel.

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

**Link:** https://youtube.com/@knitandcrocheteverafter

**Tags:** knitting, crochet, video-tutorials, stitch-patterns, beginner-knitting

## Books

### 1. The Principles of Knitting

**Author:** June Hemmons Hiatt

A comprehensive technical reference by June Hemmons Hiatt covering cast-ons, bind-offs, increases, decreases, stitch patterns, gauge, and finishing, with detailed explanations of why each technique works so knitters can choose methods and troubleshoot their own fabric.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671552333?tag=edmonddante07-20

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

### 2. Knitting Without Tears

**Author:** Elizabeth Zimmermann

Elizabeth Zimmermann's guide to knitting sweaters, hats, and mittens by proportion rather than line-by-line patterns, introducing her percentage system and seamless circular construction so knitters can design garments that fit using their own gauge and measurements.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684135051?tag=edmonddante07-20

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

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