Lucy Neatby - Knitting Essentials 1

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Bind-Off Methods
- Temporary
- Regular
- Regular method using a crochet hook
- The last stitch conundrum!
- Regular for rib
- Three-needle
- Three-needle to match vertical columns
- Modified Conventional (knitwise)

Cast-On Methods
- Loop
- Long-Tail / Continental with two hands
- Adusting the width of your cast-on edge
- Long-Tail variation for an extra strong elastic edge
- Long-Tail used as a provisional edge
- Knitted
- Cable

Decreases
- Right-slanting (k2t) - ref Reading the knitting
- Left-slanting (ssk)
- Ssk versus s1-kw-psso
- Left-slanting (ssk) variations
- Fully-fashioned decreases for easy seaming
- Double decreases; three stitches become one (S2t kw-k1-psso), s1kw-k2t-psso
- Kindness to stitches outside the decreases
- A comparison of decreases both focussed and scattered
- Reading Decreases

Finishing Basics
- Tidying up the junk
- Mattress Stitch basics
- Knitting (picking) up new stitches
- Three-needle Bind off for shoulders

Gauge Matters
- The three ways to change your stitch size:
- Needle size
- Yarn size
- Number of stitches

Increases
- Right slanting increase -
- a subtle right-leaning increase
- Left slanting increase - a subtle left-leaning increase
- Make 1, and make 1 with a twist
- Reading your increases

Useful Miscellanea
- Coil-less pins
- Yarn butterflies
- Running Yarn marker / Knitting in the round on dpns
- Slip knot
- Setting up a swift
- Ball winder and centre-pull balls
- Threading a needle from the extracted section of ends at edges
- Comparison of right and left-hand yarn manipulation
- Purling manipulating the yarn with the left hand

Odds and Knitting in Ends
- Knitting in a tail
- Splicing and spit splicing
- Cheering up unhappy stitches by diagonal darning
- Diagram of unhappy stitches

Rescue Remedies
- Laddering back knits and purls
- Ripping back wholesale
- Ripping back slowly

The Secrets of Contented Stitches
- The Contented stitch
- Hills stitches and valley loops
- Balancing stitches
- The facts of life; how stitches are made
- Stitch mount and the significance of the direction of throwing the yarn around the needle
- Factors in controlling stitch size: tension and angle
- Stitch abuse and the unhappy edge stitches
- Slipping stitches and stitch mount
- Twisted stitches
- Reading the knitting