Tutorials & Pattern Support
This page contains help and tutorials to support my patterns. I will be adding information regularly.
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Knitting With Beads - a video showing how to add beads to your knitting using a crochet hook.
Circular Needles
Lace Knitting Tutorials
How to read your lace knitting - free lesson from the Successful Lace Knitting Course
Shaping while keeping the lace pattern correct
Circular Cast Ons - Emily Ocker & Disappearing Loop Cast-ons
Reading & Understanding a Pattern for Top Down Triangular & Half Hexagon Shawls
Using Lifelines - How lifelines can make your knitting easier.
Slipping Stitches - How to slip stitches correctly at the beginning of rows to create a neat edge.
How to make a shawl bigger or smaller
Double decreases at the beginning and end of pattern repeats
Garter Tab Cast On includes the Turkish Cast On.
Cast on the same numer of stitches, increase at the same rate, create three very different shapes
Improve the look of your lace knitting
How to shape the Carnival shawl
Short Rows in a Lace Pattern - Amelie
Adding beads using the crochet hook method - Ma Belle
Knitted on Edging - Single Join
Estonian Star Stitch - The Lido Shawl
Mapleton - Garter Stitch Shawl (Simply Knitting issue 205) - Slip first stitch, kfbf, elongated cross stitch
How to work sk2po (slip one, knit two, pass slipped stitch over) across a stitch marker
Blocking Videos
How to block a triangular shawl
How to block a large crescent shawl
How to block Carnival - an unusual shape shawl
How to block a peaked asymmetrical crescent shawl - Troms
How to block a rectangular shawl - Las Salinas
How to block the Daymer Bay poncho
How to block the Trenance lace sweater
Blocking the Luna (WYS Exquisite Lace) Top
Introducing and Blocking Exmoor
Knitting Magazine - Flower Lace Shawl Blocking Video
How To Fix Mistakes in Lace Knitting
Finishing mistakes in lace knitting - dropped or missed yarn overs
Unpicking stitches and rows of stocking stitch and lace knitting
How to fix a dropped stitch in lace knitting
Sock Knitting Tutorials
Grafting Stitches Using Kitchener Stitch
Toe Up Short Row Heel Turn - German Short Rows
Inserting and Unpicking Waste Yarn for an afterthought heel
No waste yarn afterthought heel
Knitting Surgery
Sweater Surgery - Part 1 and Part 2
General Knitting Tutorials
'So you want to be a sample knitter?' - a blog post with advice for knitters who wish to become a sample knitter for designers.
Travel Knitting - Top tips for travel knitting including taking your knitting on a plane.
How to deal with a pattern problem - What to do when you get stuck on a pattern
'No stitch' & Varying Stitch Counts.
Four tips for knitting faster.
Fixing a wonky stitch/hole in my knitting
How to knit a top down short row sleeve cap
Fix a dropped stitch after I've cast off
How to work an i-cord cast off
Inserting needle to unravel lots of rows - Cloudberry Cowl
Yarn Review
Crochet Tutorials