Knitting and Purling

The knit stitch is the basis of all other knitting. Once you've mastered the knit stitch you can make your first knitted project. Here's how to form the stitch in English, aka American or throwing style.

The second-most common stitch in the knitting world is the purl stitch, sort of the opposite of a knit. Once you know how to knit and purl, you can make all sorts of fun knitted items. Here's how to form the purl stitch in English, throwing or American style.

If you're used to English knitting, learning to purl in continental style may seem a little more difficult, but once you get the hang of it it's not too hard, and switching between knitting and purling in the same row in Continental is a lot faster than working in the English style.

Continental knitting, sometimes also referred to as German knitting or picking knitting, is one of the most common ways to knit. Here's how you make the knit stitch using continental knitting style.

Combination knitting is a specific method of knitting that involves a purl method that's like the continental style and knit stitches worked through the back loops.

Knitters are often defensive about the style of knitting they use, considering it superior to other options out there. Why do you love English knitting, continental knitting or whatever method you use?

New knitters might wonder whether they should learn to knit in the English or continental style of knitting, while those who have learned one technique might want to know if it's worth it to learn the other style. Here are the major differences between continental and English knitting and why it pays to know both.

Some people who are left-handed wonder if it's possible for them to knit or learn to knit in a way that's basically a mirror image of how right-handed people knit. The truth is, it doesn't have to be that difficult to master left-handed knitting.

Many left-handed people think they can't knit or get frustrated trying to learn how to knit form right-handed people, especially when they try to...

Why would you choose one kind of ribbing over another and more tips for knitting ribbing.

Seed Stitch and Moss Stitch are two common stitch patterns that are also commonly confused. Here's the difference.