This quick 1 minute video describes how to tell if your stitches are placed on the needle properly. Making sure your stitches are placed properly is key to successfully completing your knitting project.
When you knit a yarn over (Abbreviated yo), you are adding an extra stitch to your work. When you go back over this stitch on the next row, you will get a lace-like hole in your work that also acts as an increase.
The English-style purl stitch is a common knitting stitch. It is one of the two main stitches that knitting is based of. The other is of course, the Knit Stitch. The English Style is different from Continental style in that you hold the working yarn in your right hand instead of your left hand.
The mattress stitch is arguably the best way to seam handknit projects. Whether we're talking sweater pieces or blocks for an afghan, mattress stitch joins pieces simply and beautifully. This tutorial is especially timely for those who've been participating in the Building Blocks and Building in Color groups. I know several of the ladies in the Tuesday evening Open Knitting Group are doing one or both of those and several of them haven't done mattress stitch before. This tutorial is for you! Shelly recently brought her Building Blocks pieces in to our Tuesday group to show off and get some help with putting everything together.
