Knitting Blog

1. KNOW You Can Do It
2. NO Freaking Out!
3. I: Be INTREPID
4. T: TRANSFORM Your Mistakes into Victories

It’s summer, but you still want to knit. Here’s a great summer scarf pattern that is good for those new to lace-knitting. Even though it looks complicated, it’s not, especially when you follow the tutorial videos included here.

“You are simply amazing. In five-plus years of knitting, I have never even considered replicating a dropped cast-on stitch; I would always just start over. This video makes the actual construction of the stitch so clear and simple that all I can say is, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?!’ ” – Brian M.

If you have to cast on a lot of stitches, you might have trouble estimating the amount of tail you will need. Instead of risking either running out of tail or wasting a bunch of yarn, you can use both ends of your ball of yarn to do the cast-on.