Knitting Questions from Beginners

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.

Knitting popcorn and making bobbles are two relatively easy ways to add texture to a piece of knit fabric. While you might see the terms used interchangeably, there's technically a difference.

There are many different methods for seaming knitting, but here's a quick and easy way to sew up small seams.

Casting on using the long-tail cast on method is a quick and easy way to cast on, but how long should your long tail be?

Beginning knitters have a lot of questions about how to learn to knit, developing knitting skills and more. Here are the top questions beginning knitters have, along with their answers.

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...

We often think of knitting while walking as something that people used to do, or that people in third-world countries might do, but it's not...

Tips from readers about how to knit while walking and the potential pitfalls of knitting and walking at the same time.