Knitting Department
Knitting isn’t just for your grandmother any more! Our Knitting department offers you stitches, patterns, techniques and free projects for apparel to home decorating. We’ll give you information about knitting basics, as well as video and written tutorials and lessons to help you learn this lovely craft or enhance your skills if you’re not a beginner.
To help, we’ve provided some handy guides and charts for conversion, yardage estimates, knitting terms and abbreviations. You also can find information about spool knitting, a unique form of this handicraft.
Visit our online shopping store to load up on yarn, spools, needles and other knitting supplies.
Looking for Crochet? Check out our Crochet Department.
Recent Videos and Tutorials
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Learn how to make a fluffy, soft loopy bath mat using loop yarn. Our free pattern and tutorial will teach a new stitch.
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Learn how to make this Loop Yarn Textured Blanket with our free pattern by watching our video or reading our photo tutorial with step-by-step instructions.
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Make a quick and easy scarf for your doll using loopy yarn for an American Girl Doll or 18" doll.
This project is a wonderful way to use up scraps of leftover loop yarn from other projects. One skein of loop yarn could make many of these scarves!
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Needlepointers.com's own loopy stitch with loop yarn!
Learn how to stitch this new loopy stitch with loop yarn. This is the perfect stitch for a bath rug.
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Learn how to make a fun criss-cross scarf using the new loop yarn with our video and photo tutorial.
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Learn about this new yarn by Lion Brand, Off the Hook Magic Yarn. When you stitch with this yarn a picture magically appears. Kids will love using this yarn to make a star, heart, smiley face or peace symbol.
Click the link above to buy and learn more about this magic yarn with our tutorial.
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This video will show you how to make a pom pom using a quick and easy method with cardboard.
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Learn to make a Heart Wreath for Valentine's Day from Loop Yarn (loopy yarn). This is a fun, quick and easy DIY Wreath project that takes less than 30 minutes to make.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Tanis GrayIntroducing the first official Harry Potter knitting book—a deluxe guide to creating over 25 authentic Harry Potter knits based on the iconic films.
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1 Year, 4 issues - Creative Knitting Magazine is your knitting dream come true, with patterns for all skill levels.
New Stuff
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From
Knitty
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How to needle with a circular needle - step-by-step instructions with photos.
From
Stitch Diva Studio
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Useful, printable graph paper.
From
Incompetech.com
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Super Simple Circular Hat Calculator
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Earth Guild
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Video of increase methods when knitting - Make One Left (M1L), Make One Right (M2R), Yarn Over (YO) and more.
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Knitting Help.com
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This calculator will help you calculate stitches and rows when your gauge differs from the gauge specified on the pattern.
From
Brenda A Bell Blog
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The Knitulator is a handy and fast way to calculate how to increase or decrease a certain number of stitches evenly throughout a row of knitting.
From
Mimi Codd
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Left Handed Knitting Tutorial for Beginners + Video.
From
Noble Knits
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When: March 20 - 22, 2010 Where: Double Tree by Hilton, Green Tree, PA For more information on this festival, check the website.
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Learn about the structure of Entrelac and instructions for a practice piece.
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by Carol Wyche