Beads and jewelry
- How to knit your own jewelry
- How to knit with beads
Cleaning/caring for yarn
- Dirty work: how to clean knitted garments
- The Joy of Rewinding: How to recycle previously loved yarn
- Eucalan woolwash
- Kookaburra woolwash
- Soak woolwash
- Unicorn Fibre Wash and Fibre Rinse
- Stretching felted garments back into shape with Unshrinkit
Colors
- Creating colors in yarn: an introduction to natural dyes
- What colors say about us
Dyeing
- Buying hand-dyed yarns
- Dye your own semisolid sock yarn with Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit
- Dye workshop: make your own Kool Aid colors
- Fiber-dyeing resources
- An introduction to natural dye
Felting/fulling
- Fulling knitted garments
- Charlie's Christmas Stocking, a felted pattern by Cat Bordhi
Hats
- Hill Country Hat free pattern (PDF) by Clara Parkes from the Knitter's Book of Wool
- Shoemaker's Hat (PDF) by Clara Parkes
Inspiration
- Five fundamentals for staying inspired
- The Swatcher's Manifesto
- Nine inspiring online escapes
- When the needles fall silent: 10 tips for overcoming knitting slumps
- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers
- Seven quick-knitting gift patterns
Joining yarn
- The Sailor's Knot for worry-free joins
Lace
- The essentials of knitted lace
- Easy lace scarf free pattern by Clara Parkes
- One-skein shawl free pattern by Clara Parkes
- How to block lace using the HandWorks Dressing Wires or the Inspinknity Ultra Fine Lace Blocking Wires
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Leftovers
- Using a kitchen scale to find out how much yarn is in a leftover skein
- Magic ball knitting lets you use leftovers
Mittens and mitts
- Swatch Mitts by Clara Parkes......buy now
- Hedgerow Mitts free pattern by Amy Ripton
- Maine Morning Mitts free pattern by Clara Parkes from the Knitter's Book of Yarn
Needles
- How to choose the right tip to avoid splitting stitches
- Getting started with double-pointed needles
- How to make your own circular needles
Publishing
- How to publish designs in knitwear magazines
- Writing and publishing a successful knitting-oriented book
Socks
- How to knit socks free pattern and tutorial by Clara Parkes
- How to pick the perfect sock yarn
- Jane's Hedgerows Socks free pattern by Jane Cochran
- Stepping Stones free pattern by Clara Parkes
- How to dye your own semisolid sock yarn using Louet's Hand-Dyed Sock Kit
- Charlie's Christmas Stocking free pattern by Cat Bordhi
Spinning yarn
- How to spin yarn with a spindle
- How to spin yarn with a wheel
Stash management
- Slow stashing
- Sizing Up Oddballs How much yarn is in that skein?
- When the stash attacks: Creative techniques for concealing your yarns
Stranding
- When two yarns meet: the art of stranding for effect
Yarn substitutions
- How to make headache-free yarn substitutions
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