Links to useful knitting techniques

These YouTube videos contain techniques which may be useful when completing my patterns

• How to knit neat edges

• How to cast on and knit a nest first row

• How to knit a tube (i-cord)

• How to add an i-cord edge around a finished piece (I use this to add edging to a pocket in some of my patterns)

• How to twist yarn together to prevent holes when working with different coloured yarn

• How to catch floats on the back of the work when using different colours (so that you don’t get long strands across the back)

• How to pick up and knit stitches along a finished edge

• How to pick up stitches around a neck edge