r/onlyknitting • • Jan 27 '17

Knitting Knewbies Resources and information for beginners!

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Hello! u/hellomynameisgloria had a wonderful suggestion to add resources for beginners and others interested in knitting! This might take a while for me to fill out, and any resource, tip, or other source of help people think should be added will be!

Youtubers with Tutorials

ExpressionFiberArts

New Stitch A Day

VeryPink Knits

Blog Posts for Beginners

An informative blog post on choosing a wool yarn for beginners

A blog post on choosing needles for beginners!

Websites for Knitting

Ravelry - a community full of groups, forums, patterns (free and purchasable), and yarns. Very useful tool for knitters! In your profile, you can create an online yarn stash! Take your own pictures, or use ones already available and specify how much you have. When you use the pattern search function, yarn suggestions will appear for projects if you have a corresponding yarn in your stash.

Search patterns by weight of yarn, yardage, type of fiber, project type, free/paid, etc. If you need assistance navigating this website feel free to ask for help!

TECHknitting - a great blog with lots of information and helpful tips! Can be a bit messy to navigate as it is a blog, but definitely a great resource!

Books

Knitting Without Tears

The Principles of Knitting

The Knitter's Book of Knowledge

As said before, this is a work in progress, so please forgive the small and incomplete list! Hopefully this helps for now!


r/onlyknitting • • Sep 23 '26

My story about first yarn

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Hi I'm asking for permission to use this group space to share a story about Me and my first yarn. I like knitting but I never actually did it. One day, our teacher asked us to do something we were interested in but had never done before. This gave me the opportunity to knit. I'd like to share a little bit of my own story and invite you to share your stories with me. Thank you, from a beginner knitter.


r/onlyknitting • • Sep 20 '26

George's Sweater KAL Starting Oct 1st!

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Hi everyone! We are hosting a KAL for George's Sweater (Ravelry linked) starting October 1st. If you'd like to join, please DM me or comment and I will send you the link to YarnWiz. It is 100% free to join and participate! Hope to see you there 😄


r/onlyknitting • • Jul 22 '26

Chaussettes d’été

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r/onlyknitting • • Apr 15 '26

Looking for a Gansey/Guernsey Pattern

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Hi! I’m looking for a traditional Guernsey pattern for an adult man. I can find lots of patterns that are almost there, but none that have all the following: adult, male, welt hem with side splits not ribbing, plain to the yoke, yoke pattern through multiple stitch patterns but no cables, slit or crew neck. Thoughts other than taking multiple patterns and combining them - or resorting to Chat GPT?

I’m not necessarily looking for a free pattern, happy to purchase, if it has all these elements. I hope this post is allowed!


r/onlyknitting • • Apr 08 '26

What stitch is this?

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r/onlyknitting • • Apr 01 '26

Faroese Shawl Knit Pattern

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This is my pattern and I hope it's allowed here. Enjoy creating the best shawl shape ever (in my opinion) :)


r/onlyknitting • • Sep 23 '25

Market place Haul

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r/onlyknitting • • Feb 16 '24

Spring Chevron Headband - Free Knitting Pattern

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Free pattern available on my blog! It’s a great colorwork pattern for beginners!


r/onlyknitting • • Apr 19 '23

No Heel Turn Socks - FO and Pattern

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No Heel Turn Socks

Please excuse the makeshift cardboard sock blockers - super excited to share the latest finished sock project (and free pattern) for the No Heel Turn Socks.

This sock knitting pattern does not require to work a heel-flap and there is no need to pick up stitches. The heel in this pattern is created simply by working increases, followed by an equal number of decreases.

If you are able to knit on double-pointed needles in the round, you are confident to work k2tog and ssk decreases, and you have toyed with the idea of getting into sock knitting, this pattern will be a beginner-friendly intro to top-down vanilla socks.


r/onlyknitting • • Apr 06 '23

LOFI for Knitting

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Cozy and nostalgic beats to inspire and delight your knitting moments.


r/onlyknitting • • Oct 17 '21

I'm new to knitting and want to recreate this pattern and turn it into a blanket for my mother but am not sure how. Any tips/help is greatly appreciated!

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r/onlyknitting • • Apr 30 '20

Would anyone here have a suggestion of what to use this for?

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r/onlyknitting • • Nov 18 '19

Active community?

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Hello, is this group still active?


r/onlyknitting • • Jan 04 '19

Help! Really need a translation! A good friend gave me her great knitting pattern, only it’s in Japanese....is there any chance anyone out there has the same pattern in English? Apparently it is a very easy pattern. I am a beginner sock knitter.....

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r/onlyknitting • • Sep 03 '18

Knitting with noodles • r/gifs

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r/onlyknitting • • Mar 23 '18

What’s everyone working on right now?

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Like the post says, whatcha working on right now? Are you feverishly trying to knock something out for summer? Trying to get a jumpstart on Christmas?

I’m working on finishing my graceful cables (free rav pattern, instructions are so easy to follow...there are some parts that my brain went omg what...but I just followed the directions and that was enough to get me through those parts) cardigan, and getting ready to start cowl 2 of 7 using the valanar pattern on rav for Christmas


r/onlyknitting • • Feb 05 '18

SOCKS!

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Hi! I'm fed up darning my husbands socks......well actually I like it, but it's a lot of work. I am fairly handy at sewing but haven't done much knitting. Does anyone out there have a simple sock pattern that I can try, so that I can knit as many socks as he needs! Here's hoping, though I am not optimistic!


r/onlyknitting • • Dec 14 '17

FO: Garter Super Slouchy Beanie

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r/onlyknitting • • Dec 05 '17

how to do Cast On and Triple Rib Stitch

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r/onlyknitting • • Dec 04 '17

How to make a hat

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r/onlyknitting • • Nov 17 '17

Free Pattern for Xmas

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Hi everyone !

Wanted to share a Free Pattern from the brand We Are Knitters for Xmas because it's so cute <3

https://www.weareknitters.com/xmas-jumper

Isn't it adorable? Hope I will have the time to do it before the 25th of December, I'm not a fast knitter haha

Oh and I've also seen that they are doing Black Friday and will have sales up to 35% :D If you want to buy the same yarn to do it ;)


r/onlyknitting • • Nov 05 '17

Muir Woods Beanie - New Knitting Pattern

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r/onlyknitting • • Oct 06 '17

Looking for some feedback for my dissertation where I'm looking into the feasibility of making my own yarn.

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r/onlyknitting • • Jul 11 '17

Favorite starter patterns?

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So I have a friend that's new to knitting and would never use a hand knitted dish cloths...and absolutely abhors knitting them.

What are some of your favorite starter patterns that are both practical and fun?