Techniques

• Stitch markers made of yarn — Why you might like them and tips for making them.

• How do you hold your knitting? — How knitting in more than one style improved my knitting life!

• A better cable cast-on — How to fix the rounded corner of a cable cast-on.

• Center-pull balls of yarn — How to make them and why you'd want to.

• Adding twist to splitty yarns — A simple change to stop yarns untwisting as you work them.

• Double short rows — Two short rows at the same stitch for interesting design possibilities.

• Knitting backwards — A way to avoid purling in stockinette stitch.

Joining yarns

• Compendium of yarn joins — Methods of adding new yarn to knitting and when to use them.

• Twist-and-Weave — Add in a new color without leaving holes or knots.

Increases and decreases

• KFSB — A neater, easier alternative to a KFB increase.

• Make 1 (M1) increase — Right-leaning, left-leaning, knit side, purl side.

• K2Tog-L — The only left-leaning decrease you'll ever need!

Intarsia tips

• Intarsia cast-on — How to get vertical lines of color starting from a neat cast-on edge.

• Neater intarsia — A simple fix for untidy stitches around a vertical color change.

Experimental techniques

• Taming multicolored yarns — Capturing the colors of a skein in knitting.

• Stretch-blocking — How far can you stretch a knitted piece without it looking awful?