Here are all the things I use to grow my passion for knitting every single day!

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Knitting platforms and other knitting gadgets

  • Ravelry is THE place for knitters, crocheters and spinners. There you will find, among other things, a great search for knitting and crochet patterns.
  • Another source of knowledge is Skillshare (*). The course platform offers numerous courses that are accessible at any time.
  • If you want to see how your (knitting) stitches appear, Stitch Maps shows how the stitches flow – without any knitting script.
  • With the knitting calculator, you can find out approximately how much yarn you need for a particular knitted piece.
  • Most of the time we don’t have the yarn available that is in the knitting pattern. So we have to replace it with something else. You enter the original yarn and yarn substitution shows possible yarn substitutions.
  • Enter your colours, stripe width and how many rows you want to knit and the stripe generator will show you endless possibilities. If you like a design, take a screenshot. If you want to see a new design, refresh the page.
  • If you have a multicoloured skein of wool and no idea what you want to do, planned pooling is an option. Make a swatch in the pattern of your choice and count the stitches for each colour.
  • You know when the instructions say something like “pick up 13 stitches in the next row”? It annoys me to have to calculate something like that myself. Thanks to the Knitting Calculator, I no longer have to do the distribution of increases and decreases myself.

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Books

  • My absolute favourite book on knitting is Die grosse Strickschule (*). A great book that I still use. It explains most of the knitting techniques with easy-to-understand pictures.
  • When it comes to jumper designs, the book The Essential Guide for Adventurous Knitters (*) by Amy Herzog is a great resource. It explains the different constructions in a mathematical way and at the end it has super templates for all yarn weights and constructions.
  • Sock knitting goes all the time. Kate Atherley’s Custom Socks: Knit to Fit Your Feet (*) is a great book about socks. Be it knitted from the top or the bottom. With lots of tips on how to make the perfect sock.

Organisation

  • I use Gqueues (*) to plan my to-dos. You can easily connect the tasks with Google Calendar.
  • I draw my knitting charts with Stitch Mastery. This way I can draw knitting charts and get the written out version at the same time. That is very convenient.