Great Knitting Books

Cast On, Bind Off by Leslie Ann Bestor
Increase, Decrease by Judith Durant
Cable Left, Cable Right by Judith Durant
The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, The Knitter’s Book of Wool, and The Knitter’s Book of Socks
The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges, and The Knitter’s Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters
Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks by Patty Lyons
Knitting Without Tears - this is particularly helpful when making garments
Last-Minute Knitted Gifts

There are obviously many more, these are just some useful favorites.

Cast-On’s

Long-Tail CO and Instructions for Long Tail PURL Cast-On
Channel Island Cast-on
Judy’s Magic Cast-On and Instructions for Modifications to Judy’s Magic Cast-On
Jeny’s Stretchy Slipknot Cast-On
Crochet Provisional CO
German Twisted CO
Garter Tab CO
Tubular Cast-On - there is also a matching bind-off
Long-Tail Tubular Cast-On (for ribbing)
Backwards-Loop Cast-On

Bind-Off’s

Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off
Interlock Bindoff
Stretchy Cast-Off: K2togtbl
i-cord Cast-Off
Three Needle Bind-Off
Tubular Cast-Off - matching cast-on
Italian Bind-Off in the Round - PDF also available

Specific Techniques

knit i-cord
selvedge edge

08-04-2022

SC Single Crochet Chain Edge Tutorial shows how to add a crochet edge to knitting.

12-07-2024

Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off

12-09-2024

SWATCHING FOR CIRCULAR GAUGE!!

12-16-2024

German Short Rows - Short Row Tutorial with PDF

Inc/Dec

Increases

M1 LK: make 1 st leaning to the left, knit-wise – pick up the horizontal bar between the 2 sts nearest the ends of the needles, by inserting your right needle tip back to front. Knit into the back of the stitch.

M1 LP: Make 1 left leaning, purl-wise - pick up the horizontal bar between the 2 sts nearest the ends of the needles, by inserting your right needle tip from back to front. Purl into the back of the stitch.

M1 RK: Make 1 right leaning, knit-wise - pick up the horizontal bar between the 2 sts nearest the ends of the needles, by inserting your right needle tip from front to back. Knit into the front of the stitch.

M1 RP: Make 1 right leaning, purl-wise. pick up the horizontal bar between the 2 sts nearest the ends of the needles, by inserting your right needle tip from front to back. Purl into the front of the stitch.

From the alaska hat.

02-21-2025

Tin Can Knits Knit Basics PDF

02-22-2025

Stretchy Tubular Cast-On for 2X2 Ribbing (k2p2) Tutorials

Andrea Mowry’s tubular CO and 2X2 tubular CO in the round
Ysolda Teague’s tubular CO (long-tail tubular CO video) and alternating cable CO
Norman Schwarze’s tubular CO and knitting 2X2 ribbing
jogless Italian tubular CO for 2X2 ribbing in the round

03-18-2025

helical knitting - to prevent color pooling when using tonal yarns like Rios

03-20-2025

Italian Bind-Off in the Round - PDF also available

Long-Tail Tubular Cast-On + Related

purl soho’s long-tail tubular cast-on and purl soho’s long-tail cast-on
pompom tubular cast-on (pictorial available)
KnitPicks long-tail tubular cast-on
ysolda’s long-tail tubular cast-on and ysolda’s long-tail cast-on

TUBULAR OR ITALIAN CAST ON - this one is a little different from the others, not sure if it is the right/long-tail CO

06-14-2025

Short Row Tutorial PDF