Discover the best techniques for making your knitting neater and creating the perfect finish.

Completing a project, only to discover irregular tension, untidy joins or a tight cast off can be disheartening and ruin the look of a knitted piece. Neat Knitting Techniques provides a toolkit of essential skills and solutions to common issues, helping you knit in a neater way. Step-by-step photos, diagrams and straightforward instructions illustrate each technique.

Topics covered include:

• Making an accurate swatch
• Different knitting styles
• Selecting the best yarn for your project
• A useful cast-on toolkit, covering eight different methods
• Improving purl stitch problems
• Shaping stitches and positioning
• Fixing issues with knitting in the round
• Working with multiple yarns, including managing ends and creating stripes
• Creating perfect edges, including picking up and grafting
• A cast-off toolkit of six different methods, covering different cast off positions and casting off in the round
• Weaving in ends
• Finishing touches, including sewing up and blocking
• Troubleshooting problems during and after knitting

Neat Knitting Techniques includes 3 exclusive knitting patterns that allow you to practice some of the techniques mentioned.

published in February 2023 by The Crowood Press Ltd

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