Lucy Neatby - Knitting Essentials 2

Bind-Off Methods - Modified conventional, knitwise - Modified conventional, purlwise and in rib - Three needle in brief Cast-On Methods - Provisional Crochet - Removing the provisional edge - Knitting down flat - Knitting into a crochet chain - Cast-off cast-on - The first row after a PCCO edge - Working in the round down from a provisional edge Circular Needles - Advantages and options - Casting on, joining the round and checking for twists - Starting the second round - Right or left hand yarn manipulation? - Two-hand training - Stranded knitting and working inverted - Simulation of circular knitting for gauge swatches Cutting Your Knitting - Unplanned cutting - Pre-planned cutting: Setting up a steek - Sewing the steek - Preparing to cut, blocking details - Cutting and joyously eliminating ends - Finishing the cut edge: knitting up stitches and neatening the raw edge More Finishing Basics - Shoulder seams and a finishing strategy including Three-needle bind-off in brief - Mattress stitch for side seams - Refinements - Adding more sewing yarn - Adjusting mis-matched edges - Preplanning for finishing - Darning in ends to seam and avoiding premature finishing - Why not slip your selvage stitches? - Mattress stitching stranded fabrics - Knitting up new stitches - Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops using waste yarn - Sleeve tops - setting stitches to rows using waste yarn at the top of the sleeve - Sleeve tops - setting stitches to rows with a bound-off sleeve edge Grafting - Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops using waste yarn - Grafting diagram to explain the ½ stitch joggle - Grafting stitch tops to stitch tops with a vertical stripe - Comparison of Grafting and three needle - Grafting toes (Kitchener stitch): Make the sock toe chimney - Grafting toes (Kitchener stitch): using the sock toe chimney - Neatening tails in a sock Toe Chimney Miscellaneous -Coil-less pins - Yarn butterflies - Wraps per inch W.P.I. - Running Yarn Markers / Knitting in the round on dpns - Slip knot - Threading a darning needle - The Contented stitch - Hill stitches and valley loops