16 Tips and Tricks for Beginner Knitters!

As a person who’s just learning to knit, I find Lion Brand’s Learning Center to be very useful because of the step-by-step-videos that I can rewind as many times as I need to get a stitch right. In addition to the Learning Center, the Lion Brand^® blog is another great resource for tips and little-known tricks to make knitting even more enjoyable.

Whether you’re just learning to knit or would like to try a different method of casting on, check out these great posts:

• Great Beginnings: Start Your Knitting Project Off Right, Pt 1.
• Great Beginnings: Start Your Knitting Project Off Right, Pt 2.
• 3 Ways to Bind Off/Cast Off
• Learn the Provisional Cast On in 6 Easy Steps
• How to Do the Long Tail Cast On
• Picking Up the Right Number of Stitches: Tips & Tricks
• The Ups and Downs of Knitting: Counting Your Rows
• How to Increase in a Row or In the Round
• 6 Helpful Tips For Knitting in the Round
• Hints & Tips on Knitting Decreases
• Knitting With Big Needles: Tips and Tricks
• Short Rows: A Primer for Knitters
• Slip Stitch Knitting: Easy, No Fuss Colorwork!
• Bind-Offs: Great Endings to Your Knitting Project – Practice Binding Off
• Bind-Offs: Great Endings to Your Knitting Project – Different Bind Offs
• 10 Tips on Preventing, Catching and Fixing Mistakes for Knitters