Online Knitting Hub

The weather's getting colder and the nights are drawing in, so why not get your knitting needles out and knit up these easy fingerless knits. The tutorial and pattern is pitched at advanced beginner. This brilliant knitting tutorial from, Staci Perry, at Verypink Knits, offers a free knitting pattern, and a step-by-step guide to knitting the mitts in the round, using double point needles. It also shows you how to make sure you get the right fit, by knitting a gauge swatch before you begin.  

There are many different ways of casting on when knitting. But the thumb cast-on, which is also known as the single needle cast-on, or backward loop cast-on, is probably one of the simplest. And this of course, makes it particularly 'beginner knitter' friendly. As so many people learn knitting more easily, by being shown rather than reading about it, I thought I would share this excellent video tutorial, from Patricia Cox, at the Baldy Sheep Company , which shows you how to master this method. This quick method is excellent if you have a lot of stitches to cast on, or you need a stretchy, flexible edge (such as in knitting a lacy type pattern)