Its been a very long time since I have posted anything about knits and Purls. I get many visitors in a day, searching for free patterns available on my site for various knitting projects. I havent yet started making my own patterns, but have many books, with all the possible combinations of knits and purls, from where i try and knit them.

There is an amazing site, which helped me with my earlier knitting. It has many detailed videos, which helped me understand every stich better.To visit this site, click here. As a starter, do not attempt any lenghty or big project. Start with a simple project, which can boost yor confidence and your stiches grows neater too. Once, the stiches are neat in lines, start with whatever project you wish. 
Long before i bought books, I used the patterns available here. They offer many free patterns for almost everything, which are usually quite simple.

If you want to knit a scarf, An afghan, A shawl, or anything, remember to jot down the pattern first, work out the stiches(using the calculator), cast on the correct number of stiches(which forms the base), use the suggested numbered needle (A aluminium or a bamboo needle is good for a starter) and always have a border too, to avoid it getting curled all over itself.
Now, making a simple border is quite easy, What every your number of stiches are, Add eight more stiches to it. Let me explain. Suppose My pattern is as -
Cast on 10 stiches.
Row 1- K2,P2,K2,P2,K2
Row 2- P2,K2,P2,K2,P2
then, add four more stiches each side as follows -
Cast on 18 stiches
Row 1 to Row 4 - Knit
Row 5- K4,K2,P2,K2,P2,K2,K4
Row 6- K4,P2,K2,P2,K2,P2,K4
End the project knitting more 4 rows as we started it, making it a four side border. if you want a two side border, then dont knit the first four and the last four rows. Simply start with your pattern but with adding four stiches at the start and end of a row {like - Row 1- K4,K2,P2,K2,P2,K2,K4; Row 2- K4,P2,K2,P2,K2,P2,K4}

I shall be posting my free patterns too inshallah. Anyone has any doubt or wanna contact me, leave me a comment(along with your email id), And i shall write to you as soon as i can. Till then Happy knitting….

 

Are you suprised by the Title of my post today ? Well, Dont be. You got me right, I am going to write about knitting today.

I have a memory that i used to knit when i was a small kid, dont remember the right age too. I used to look at a knitted piece with awe, and wondered how beautiful a cloth is made out of a mere strand of wool ….. !!!!!.Can i make it too ??? That was enough motivation for a small kid (thats me), hence i started to knit with the help of my mother. It wasnt very easy as i used to get easily hurt by the pointed needles and made a lot of mistakes. My mother was very patient with me though ……………….

As i grew, i got caught in different complicated webs of life, My studies (my schedule was very hectic, i used to spend only 7-8 hours at home = sleep time) and stuff and really forgot about wool,needles and knitting. Some days back while i was surfing the net i came across a knitted scarf and my heart went out for it, It was so beautiful. The very next moment, a thought crossed my mind - Why not, Let me try again. I got up and started searching stores here where i can find the equipment (yup, thats what i call it) . Everything went in vain, Then i got an idea. I posted a question on Yahoo Answers, I tell you its the best place to find answers for almost anything. It saved me a lot of time many times earlier and it did the same this time too. Am i sounding as if i am promoting Yahoo Answers ????

 Well, I got the names of stores, for your knowledge they are - Micheals and Wall-Mart, I advice Micheals, Its a world of YARN out there. I bought the needles and the yarn and started knitting. …. I actually did not start knitting, I practiced a bit. Once i started my hand got into the rhythm and i picked up a good speed. I started with basic knit and purl stiches and now know a wide variety of stiches.

I knitted a dishcloth,(it turned out well) and now am planning to knit a scarf for myself inshallah. I will be posting different patterns and stiches in my near future posts. So, anybody out there who loves knitting like i do ?????

Happy Knitting