All Thumbs

Mittens are great portable projects. Since they don't require much yarn, they're also great stash-busters. The only tricky part is the thumbs. Learn a handful of thumb options in this class, from the simple to the anatomically correct.

A Touch of Color

Brighten up your knitting with a touch of color. Learn ways of choosing harmonious color combinations, blending colors, and handling yarn ends. Explore simple colorwork techniques with "wow!" results.

Cast-on Cornucopia

Dozens of cast-on techniques exist: one-strand or two-strand; loose and flowing or elastic and springy; invisible or decorative. Review your options in this class--try variations on old favorites, and discover entirely new options. Best of all, gain the familiarity you need to choose just the right cast-on for your next project.

Chart Reading and Writing

To conserve space, some publications--especially stitch dictionaries--now provide stitch patterns not in written form, but in charted form. In this class, you'll learn to read charts, and to convert between charts and written instructions. And you'll learn to use charts to develop new stitch patterns, or to convert between flat and in-the-round knitting.

Create socks that fit your feet and match your wardrobe! Learn to choose yarn and needles, figure out sizing issues, and create heels and toes. Keep it simple, or get creative with fancy stitch patterns.

Disaster Recovery

Mistakes happen. Fortunately, knitters have an array of techniques for dealing with mistakes. Learn when and how to tink, drop, and frog. See how duplicate stitch can cover over goofs in colorwork. And pick up tips for avoiding mistakes in the first place.

Entrelac fabric looks like strips of knitting woven over and under each other, but it's really formed of individually-knit diamonds. No sewing is required: you join the diamonds together as you knit them. In this class, you'll learn to form the basic units of entrelac: base triangles, side triangles, left- and right-leaning diamonds, and top triangles. You'll also pick up tricks like knitting back backwards, and methods for sizing and shaping entrelac fabric.

Cables and other twisted knitting stitches make for some of the most captivating knitting patterns. Though they look intricate, they are surprisingly easy to create. Learn how while knitting samplers that you can later turn into a small drawstring tote bag. Along the way, you'll pick up tips for reading charts, reading your knitting, and fixing mistakes.

Intro to Intarsia

Intarsia makes it easy to create blocks of color forming geometric patterns. Or you can use intarsia to "paint pictures" in yarn. In this class, you'll discover that the key is twisting the yarns at color changes. And you'll learn to use bobbins, butterflies, and knitter's graph paper.

Learn all the knitting basics! How to form knit and purl stitches, shop for yarn and other supplies, correct mistakes, read a pattern, and modify a pattern to suit your tastes. The class project--a hat and scarf set--will give you the chance to try simple knit/purl stitch combinations, knitted flat and in the round.

Modular Squares

Modular knitting is all the rage! Find out why in this class: learn to knit modular squares, and to join them together as you go. Use multiple colors, or--for extra pizazz--bits of novelty yarn.

Multi-directional Scarves

Turn variegated yarn into striking scarves with this new form of multi-directional knitting. Learn to form triangles and diamonds from a continuous length of yarn, and to join them together without sewing any seams or picking up any stitches.

Project Clinic

Need a hand completing a project? The Project Clinic is your answer. Bring in your stalled projects, and get advice on what to do next. With a booster of confidence, your project will be back on its feet in no time!

Reversible Cables

Cables usually look good on one side only. It's possible, though, to knit reversible cables that look good on both sides--perfect for scarves, afghans, fold-over collars, or other items where either side might be on display. Learn how to work two kinds of reversible cables in this class, while picking up tips on casting on in a mix of knit and purl, binding off in pattern, and blocking. Then go home with patterns for two reversible scarves.

Stranded colorwork appears in classic sweaters, such as Fair Isle and Norwegian sweaters. And it appears in more modern designs, such as those by Kaffe Fassett and Alice Starmore. Pick up the basics in this class: learn to manage two yarns at a time, maintain an even tension, and follow color charts.

Do sweater patterns look like gibberish to you? This class helps you sort out what they're really saying. Learn to choose appropriate increase and decrease methods, pick up stitches for a collar, sew smooth seams, and much more. For practice, you'll knit a sample sweater sized just right for a teddy bear--the perfect first sweater project!

Learn to design your own top-down sweater with set-in sleeves: shape an armhole with increases rather than decreases, provisionally cast on for a seamless underarm, and use short rows to shape a sleeve cap. In the end, you'll have a perfectly custom-fit sweater, with a minimum of finishing fuss.