A Year of Techniques

Ever felt like you needed to take your knitting to the next level? A Year of Techniques brings you 12 patterns and tutorials to upgrade your knitting skills. With projects from world-class designers accompanied by clear step-wise tutorials and online videos, there’s always something new to learn. The book is an amazing encyclopedia of useful and professional techniques which you will be able to take forward and use again and again on all your knitting projects.

Techniques covered in this book are: 
Afterthought heels and thumbs 
Garter stitch grafting 
Helical stripes 
Intarsia 
Judy’s magic cast on (both for starting closed tubes, and as a provisional cast on) 
Knitting on a border 
Mastering dominance in Fair Isle knitting 
Pinhole cast on (also known as Emily Ocker’s circular cast on) 
Reading cables from charts 
Short rows 
Steeks and 
Turning a heel