Knitting guides

Short, practical help with the parts of following a pattern that trip people up.

• How to keep track of rows in knitting

  Reading your fabric, markers, tally marks and counters, and how to count two things at once.

• How to read a knitting chart and keep your place

  Which way to read each row, what the key means, repeats, and keeping your place.

• How to follow your size in a multi-size knitting pattern

  What the brackets mean, what a 0 or a dash means, and how to stop reading the wrong number.

• How to knit from a PDF pattern on a phone or tablet

  Printing or not, keeping your place on a screen, and keeping your patterns together.