A Life in the Making

Lifelines are a really useful thing to know about as your knitting gets more and more adventurous. Joanne takes us through the whys a wherefores today. What is a lifeline?A lifeline is a line of yarn or thread that you place into your knitting to enable you to have a safe place to come back to if...

We've already had a brief look at the joy of colour work and cables. Today Joanne introduces you to the wonderful world of lace. What is Lace? Knitted lace is formed by creating yarn overs (sometimes known as yarn forward) and decreases in a pattern to form an open patterned fabric. It can be as ...

Now you have the hang of knitting and purling there are so many exciting places that can take you! Yesterday Libby introduced you to colourwork and today Joanne will introduce you to the joy of cables. What are cables ?Cables are created by moving the order of stitches as they occur in a row for ...

Colour, Colour, Glorious Colour!Changing colour Kat has already introduced us to the process of changing colour with her tutorial early in Knit Camp.  I hope that you found this straightforward when knitting Joanne’s Knit Flat Hat.  With this technique you can easily create horizontal stripes in ...