Knitting Patterns, Knitted Toys and Knitted Scarves

I like to knit pieces that are unique, fast and fun. Most of our patterns are for knitted toys, scarves and purses. I'm starting to knit unique baby hats and tea cozies.
You can find our knitting patterns at KnittingSpa.com.

EXTRA TIPS ON KNITTING FOR THE BEGINNER

1. Always insert the empty needle for the left side of the stitch to be knit. Never do you knit in the back loop, always into the side of the stitch facing you.
2. Many self-taught knitters will wrap the yarn around the needle in the wrong direction. Make sure you are not doing this. The yarn is wrapped from underneath to over the tip of the needle, this is - from right to left to right.
3. Hold your hands close to where you are working, not clear down near the knobs of the needles. Do not hold the needles like a pencil. Perch up on top of the needles.
4. Try to get a little tug against the yarn (tension); not too much, however, or it will be difficult to knit the next row in your knitting patterns.
5. Try to slide the needles as you knit. Your knitting will be smoother and you will knit faster. When doing step three (slid up), make a point of sliding clear up on top of the full needle and then do step four (slide off). This will make you knit up on the fat part of the needles. If you should be knitting on the very tips, the stitches would be difficult to knit the next row.
6. When drawing the loop through, be sure you are coming through the loop with just one thread and not pulling through the back half of the same stitch along with the regular loop. This is one way you might get extra stitches and holes in your knitting pattern.
7. Make sure the yarn is on the back side of work.
8. Turn work around to knit the second row. Your full needle in your Left Hand and empty needle in your Right Hand. Before beginning to knit the second row of your knitting pattern, examine the first stitch on the full needle. You will see that the first stitch has a big loop hanging right below the needle. Sometimes this big loop is larger than other times, but it is always there. Do not name the mistake of knitting in the big loop, thinking it is a dropped stitch. Knit only the stitches that are over the needle. Pull the big loop down and out of the way and start knitting the second row of your knitting pattern. If you should pull the loose yarn to the back side of work over the top of the needle, you would make the big loop into two stitches. Do not do this. So hold the big loop down then get yarn in back of work to knit the first stitch. The big loop has to be there because you must have stretch everywhere in knitting and so the big loop gives you the stretch you need on the edges.
9. Do not attempt to purl until you are knitting very well, or you may become confused. Learn one step thoroughly before you start to master the next step.

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