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What sources of information (e.g. books with patterns, yarn ranking sites, how-to-guides) do you use for knitting? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/knitting

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While I am asking about what knitting resources you use I might as well plug this thread asking for knitting resources for beginners.

I have a Ravelry account I rarely use. I come here from time to time. I still have a few how to knit books I got as a child. And I have a few specific tutorials (none are video-only, they are all image + text tutorials) bookmarked online that I know I'll need to refer back to sometime in the future:

Finally, I keep the pattern I am working on written out in Obsidian (@[email protected] says hi), with a little note at the bottom describing the tension I am using and this: "Finished row x, need to start at row x + 1". (If I wrote 'row x' I would have no idea if I just finished it and need to start x + 1, or if I just finished x - 1 and need to start row x. That was a serious issue for me when using just a counter that ticks up. I could just technically write 'Finished row x' but I feel better both writing that and 'need to start row x + 1'.)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Archive.org has a lot of resources for knitting. You can find patterns for all levels, and also books on all kinds of techniques. As someone who dislikes video tutorials I find the Internet Archive invaluable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As someone who also tries to avoid video as much as I can and favors text and static images, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I knew of the Internet Archive but never bothered with its search bar beyond just pasting in the URL of the webpage I wanted to see previous versions of, or the webpage I wanted backed up.

[–] proudblond 2 points 6 months ago

If you don’t love video, you might also look up Tech Knitting; I googled and it looks like she(?) actually has a couple of blogs with similar names. She gets really nitty gritty about stuff and makes things clear that might otherwise seem like magic made from sticks. I think it’s where I learned how to beautifully and invisibly weave ends into the backside of stockinette, among other things. (I actually don’t hate weaving in ends with that method!)