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1) Gauge:

  • Improve yarn tensioning
  • Secrets of stitch gauge
  • Secrets of row gauge
  • Gauge swatch cast on
  • Swatching in the round
  • Measuring gauge
  • Block a gauge swatch
  • Gauge MATH

2) Sweater Fit

  • How to measure crossback/chest
  • How to measure armhole depth
  • Understanding Ease

3) Finishing

  • Weaving in ends: closing gaps with the tail
  • Weaving in ends: clip the tail
  • Weaving in ends: skimming
  • Seam garter
  • Chimney graft
  • Seam shoulders
  • Slip stitch selvedge myth

4) Fixing Mistakes

  • Fix a hole in knitting
  • Avoid twisting stitches
  • Swiss darning
  • Duplicate stitch repair
  • Unknitting lace
  • Afterthought YO (yarn-over)
  • Cable Fixes

5) Reading Your Knitting (counting & keeping track)

  • How to count rows
  • Keep track of your cast on
  • How to count cable rows
  • Keeping Track of Your Bind Off
  • How to Measure Your Knitting
  • How to Measure Without a Ruler

6) Cast-ons and Bind-offs

  • Bind-off cables
  • German twisted cast-on in pattern
  • Extra stretchy bind-off
  • Extra stretchy cast-on
  • Better bind-off
  • Left Handed Long-Tail Cast-On

7) Joining

  • Needle felted join
  • Felted join

8) General Tutorials

  • How to Wind a Center Pull Ball
  • Contrasting Color Applied i-cord
  • 5 Steps to a Perfect Sweater
  • Top-Down Raglan Increases

9) Short Rows

  • Substituting W & T with German Short Rows
  • German Short Rows in the Round

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Empower your knitting by learning not just the "how," but the "why" of your stitches with Patty Lyons. Patty Lyons is a nationally recognized knitting teacher, and best selling author who has been featured in Vogue Knitting and on PBS, and whose ★★★★★ classes have been attended by more than 100,000 students online and in-person!

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Featured Patterns

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