Free Knitting Patterns

Learn to knit quickly and with more flawless results. Make the most of your knitting time using these tips:

Knit sleeveless or short-sleeved projects. This cuts the knitting time by 1/3 or more, and saves yarn to boot.
Choose slim tailored designs. Baggy sweaters mean more stitches to knit. Tight sweaters save yarn!
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Free knitting instructions from Beeton’s Book of Needlework 1870, with step by step illustrations for casting on, plain knitting, purl stitches, increasing, decreasing, and casting off.

287.–KNITTING, though considered to be an old-fashioned art, is by no means so ancient as lacemaking. Knitting has never entirely quitted the hands of English and German ladies; indeed, [...]