Knitting in Action

Curated Videos To Guide You

It feels like a real gift when you find an online tutor who gives clear instructions with good videos and photos to support step-by-step explanations. In this case - knitting videos, covering the basics of what beginners need to learn through to the advanced-level tricky stitches that experienced knitters want to tackle.

Below are curated videos from three of our favorite online knitting teachers - Wool and the Gang, Very Pink Knits, and Rowan Yarns. All are free.

If you find a good fit in one of the featured videos below, click through to other videos we've listed, or head over to YouTube through the links above, search the video playlists, and subscribe to the tutor's channel.

Wool and the Gang - The Knit Stitch

Very Pink Knits - Why is My Knitting Curling?

Reading a Knitting Chart

How to Make a Knitted I-Cord

How to Knit 3 Together

How to Purl 2 Together

Grafting by Sewing/Kitchener Stitch

Cast Off Buttonhole

Calculating Yarn Amounts and Making a Bobbin

Thumb Cast On

Explore more YouTube channel free tutorials at Wool and the Gang, Very Pink Knits, and Rowan Yarns.

More for You to Explore    

Don't miss: Jen and Jim Arnall-Culliford’s “A Year of Techniques” project, featuring easy-to-follow video tutorials for 12 advanced knitting techniques, and our posts 35000 Free Knitting Patterns, 12 Market Bag Patterns, and Digitized Knitting Magazines. All are chock full of helpful tips, advice, and resources.

If you're curious about which knitting books are the most popular and which knitting techniques are trending, check out our curated list of 25 Best Selling Knitting Books

POPULAR POSTS

Make a Boro Bag

Follow a tutorial for making a patchworked bag with Sashiko topstitching.

Sashiko Videos

Follow tutorials for how to create traditional Japanese embroidery stitching.

Vintage Maps

Explore a library's digitized vintage maps, which you can download for free. 

How to Care for Quilts

Learn from a museum textile curator how to best care for your quilts.

Photo of a sewing foot and fabric

Make a Scappy Quilt

Learn to make a basket weave pattern quilt from scraps of fabric.

yarn bombed bike

Yarn Bombing Sisters

Sisters Lorna and Jill Watt create amazing yarn bomb installations .

Magnetic Ceramics

Ceramic artists create fantastical structures using magnetic clay.

Knit Like the Vikings

Learn about a Viking fabric-making technique which pre-dates knitting.

Make a Bilum Bag

Follow a tutorial for making a bilum bag - PNG's traditional fabric.

Home made DIY Pinhole camera

Make a Pinhole Camera

Learn to make a pinhole camera; develop paper film with common items.

What is Nalbinding?

Learn about a stretchy fabric made with connected loops.

Cartoon drawing of a Woman knitting

Digitized Knitting Magazines

Free digitized knitting magazines 1800 - now.

>
Skip to content