Online Resources
November 15th, 2004 at 3:00 pm (reference)
A friend of mine who lives in a different city has a friend who wants to learn how to knit. We’ve been perusing patterns to see what might qualify under the interesting category, but still not be too difficult for a beginner to accomplish.
We’ve also been talking about online resources that show different knitting techniques. I thought I would list some of them here.
Videos on more ‘advanced’ techniques like using DPNs: http://www.knittingatknoon.com/demos.html
Videos on some basic techniques like casting on, knitting/purling etc: http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/basic_techniques/
(disclaimer: I have not actually viewed all of the videos at these sites)
The pattern wemost recently looked at to have friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) make: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall03/PATTponcho.html
Here are some resources on using charts: http://www.heirloom-knitting.co.uk/beginners_guide.html
To get some knitter’s graph paper free, download and print this: http://www.brownfox.com/PDF/knitgraf.pdf
This site has not only knitter’s graph paper, but hex paper, and lots of other cool graph-type paper: http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
