Free Knitting Tutorials: Videos + Step-By-Step Instructions
Our free knitting tutorials are like having a teacher at your side! Beginners, learn how to knit and master basic knitting techniques. Knitters of all levels, explore new cast ons + bind offs, increases + decreases, finishing techniques, and inspiring decorative stitches. Learn from both video tutorials and step-by-step instructions, and put your new skills to work with 1000s of free knitting patterns and 100s of beautiful yarns… Only at Purl Soho!
Knitting Abbreviations and Terms >
Advanced Techniques
- Attached I-Cord
- Double Knitting
- Fair Isle: Design Your Own
- Four-Row Yarn Over Buttonhole
- I-Cord
- Intarsia
- Intarsia in Garter Stitch
- Join As You Knit
- Knit 1 Under Loose Strand (k1 uls)
- Knit Hem
- Knit Through The Back Loop (k tbl)
- Knit Box Pleat
- Picking Up Stitches
- Purl Through The Back Loop (p tbl)
- Short Rows: Wrap + Turn
- Short Rows: German Short Rows
- Steek With Knit Facing
- Trapping Floats
- Turn + Slide
- Working into the Stitch Below
Basics
- Adding a Ball of Yarn
- All About Gauge
- Basic Bind Off
- Joining To Work In The Round
- Knit Stitch
- Knitting Needles Conversion Chart
- Learn To Knit Video Tutorial
- Long Tail Cast On
- Purl Stitch
- Switching Between Knit + Purl
- Winding Yarn Into A Ball By Hand
- Winding Yarn Into A Ball With A Swift + Yarn Winder
Decorative Stitches
- 5 Stitch Garter Bobble
- Braided Ribbing
- Brioche Stitch: One-Color Brioche + Fixing Mistakes
- Brioche Stitch: Two-Color Brioche + Fixing Mistakes
- Brioche Stitch: Basic Decreases (bsk2p + bk3tog)
- Brioche Stitch: Basic Increase (bk2tog-yo-bk2tog)
- Brioche Stitch: Centered 4-Stitch Decrease (bc4d)
- Cable
- Caliper Cable
- Cording Stitch
- Diagonal Slip Stitch
- Duplicate Stitch
- Dutch Knitting Stitch
- Elongated Mock Cable Stitch
- Fluffy Brioche
- Grecian Rib
- Mini Herringbone
- Miniature Smocking Stitch
- Mock Cable Rib
- Reversible Stripes
- Rick Rack Rib
- Right + Left Twist
- Twice Knitting
- Two-Color Honeycomb Brioche
Decreases
- Brioche Stitch: Basic Decreases (bsk2p + bk3tog)
- Brioche Stitch: Centered 4-Stitch Decrease (bc4d)
- Centered Single Decrease (csd)
- Knit Two Together (k2tog)
- Purl 2 Together (p2tog) + Slip Slip Purl (ssp)
- Slip Knit Two Together Pass (sk2p)
- Slip Slip Knit Pass (s2kp)
- Slip Slip Knit (ssk)
- Slip Slip Purl Pass (s2pp)
Finishing Techniques
- 3-Needle Bind Off
- How To Block Your Knitting
- How To Hand Wash A Sweater
- Kitchener Stitch
- Mattress Stitch
- Pom Pom Tutorial
- Seaming Garter Stitch
- Seaming Stockinette Stitch
- Sewing a Button onto Knitwear
- Tassel
- Tassel: Tiny Attached Tassel
- Twisted Fringe
- Weaving In Ends As You Go
- Weaving In Your Ends
- Wet Splice (aka Spit Splice)
- Whipstitch
- Zippers in Knits
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