This page is ever-changing, more resource links will be added as I add patterns. Please let me know if you find links that don’t work. Stitch Diva Studios has a outstanding collection of illustrated tutorials. Techniques are in alphabetical order, but if you are looking for my list of abbreviations, it is at the very bottom.

• bar increases (of all kinds)
• All you could ever want to know about increases.
• grafting, graft (kitchener stitch) The link is to a video. Written instructions are under “kitchener” on this page.
• i-cord
• kitchener stitch (grafting, graft)
  Pull the yarn snug but not tight after each of these stitches:
  Draw yarn purlwise through the first stitch on the front needle and leave that stitch on the needle.
  Draw yarn purlwise through the first stitch on the back needle and remove that stitch from the needle.
  Draw yarn knitwise through the new first stitch on the back needle and leave that stitch on the needle.
  Draw yarn knitwise through the first stitch on the front needle and remove that stitch from the needle.
  Draw yarn purlwise through the new first stitch on the front needle and leave that stitch on the needle.
  Draw yarn purlwise through the first stitch on the back needle and remove that stitch from the needle.
  Draw yarn knitwise through the new first back stitch and leave on.
  Draw yarn knitwise through the first front stitch and remove.
  And so on and so forth until all of the stitches have been removed from the needles.
• knit cast on
• Beading Tips and Tricks Including how to get them onto yarn with a beading needle instead of a yarn needle. Clever and frustration saving.

Abbreviations
K – knit
P – Purl
S – slip
K2tog – knit 2 stitches together
P2tog – purl 2 stitches together
SSK – (slip, slip, knit) Slip two stitches as if to knit, stick the point of the
left needle through the two slipped stitches in front of the right needle) and
knit them together.
WS – Wrong Side (or the work)
RS – Right Side (of the work)
M1, M1R -lift the strand between the stitches from back to front with the LH needle and knit
M1L -lift the strand between the stitches from front to back with the LH needle and knit it through the back loop
KFB – Knit through the front and back of the next stitch (another increase)
PSSO – pass slipped stitch over the last knit
stitch and drop off of the needle
S – slip one stitch purlwise
sts – stitches