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Videos on Knitting
Meg Swansen, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Leslye Solomon, Bobbie
Groome, Nancie Wiseman, Nenah Galati, Lucy Neatby, Ginger Luters, Bev Dillan,
Alice Korach Jean James and Sandy Kreiss
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Click Here to Order Absolute
Best Way to Learn How to Knit DVD 742
With Leslye
Solomon. If you ever wanted to learn how to knit, or change your current
method of knitting to more ergonomic, more efficient, more even and faster? Learn how to knit the continental way. The close-ups in the film
are excellent and Leslye shares tons of tricks and tips to make the beginning
knitter more proficient. Great way to learn from the beginning or to
improve your skills.
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KNITTING From Start to Finishing Video
with Bev Dillon A complete knitting course with pattern booklet. The
following topics are thoroughly covered: knitting basics (both American &
Continental), needles, yarn, measurements, decreases, increases, textures,
cables, lace, seams, joinings, finishing, buttonholes, pom-poms, fringe & an
introduction to color knitting. 150 minutes
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Click Here to Order Knitting with Erica Wilson
VHS Video883
Erica demonstrates cast on, knit,
purl, garter, ribbing, increase, cast off, picking up stitches, slip stitch
joining and introduces you to both right hand and left hand yarn carrying
techniques. She also shows you how to knit a simple one piece sweater. Of
special interest are her detailed presentations of double knitting, duplicate
stitch and embroidery on knitting to enhance both texture and color. 55 minutes
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Click Here to Order LEARN TO KNIT,
VHS734 Video
Nancie Wiseman
Basic Knitting and sweater finishing.
Nancie presents all the information needed to become a proficient knitter.
Besides all the get-started information, she also works you through a miniature
sweater so that you can learn increases, decreases, picking up stitches, sewing
seams together, and finishing off a sweater. The written pattern is included
with the video. A good, basic video for a beginning knitter. 165 minutes. |
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to Knit with Laura Jean
Click Here to Order DVD756
Covering all the basics of knitting
and more, Lura Jean takes you through casting on, knitting, purling, and casting
off. A tour of a yarn store shows different types and weights of yarn and how to
choose them as well as needles and accessories. You are shown increasing and
decreasing, using circular needles, sewing and crocheting seams, reading
patterns and calculating your own patterns. You are taught all these skills
while being guided through 5 projects: a scarf, a hat, a purse, a baby sweater,
and a dog sweater. By making all of these projects, you will feel like a
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SOCK VIDEO with Nancie Wiseman
All the basics needed to knit a
simple pair of socks. From the casting on with double pointed needles, to
turning a hell, to kitchener stitch for the toe. This video will be a
great resource for review each time socks are knitted. Includes a pattern
for three weights of yarn. 60 minutes
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ENTRELAC AND SEAMLESS, BOBBINLESS
ARGYLE SOCKS VHS Video with Nancie Wiseman
This video presents 2 techniques.
Argyle socks without the bobbins and seams, and the Entrelac technique. In the
Argyle technique, each section is created separately while being joined to the
next section. Therefore you don't need bobbins or graphs, so the work is less
complicated. In Entrelac the left and right slanting squares resemble
basketweave and create a puffy effect. Each of these processes can be easily
translated to sweater work. Written instructions included. A basic understand of
knitting socks is helpful as the specifics of heal and toe knitting are not
detailed in this video. (See sock video below for basic sock instruction
60 minutes
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Knit Socks - Hand Knitter's Guide to Knitting Socks with Leslye Solomon
Larger than life close-ups and
Leslye's expert instruction will make all your sock knitting successful, even if
you've never knitted a pair of socks before. You learn about yarn sources,
planning, designing and measuring for an accurate fit. Basic knitting is
covered, plus a unique way to cast on in rib pattern You'll learn how to
"knit in the round" using 5 double pointed needles, how to weave in a
marker stitch, work the heel flap, shape the heel with short rows and work the
gusset. Leslye shows you how to use the kitchner stitch to close the toe and
also offers instructions for a round toe variation. Everything you need to knit
beautiful socks that fit!! 60 minutes. If you are new to sock knitting and
want to machine knit socks, the hand knitting video will be helpful, too.
60 minutes.
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by Nenah Galati.
Shows step by step demonstrations how to knit socks on 2 circular needles. It is
clear cut and easy to follow; comes with written instructions. |
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Learn how to knit 2 socks at the same
time using the short-row heel. Instructor is very personable, easy to follow.
Written Instructions. There are even bloopers at the end. Must already
know how to knit socks using circular needles, if not see "Sock I". |
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SOCKS III: DVD
Using the two circular needle method, make
eight different pairs of socks using different cuff designs. They include mock
cable, knit/purl pattern stitch, eyelet and rib, basket weave, 2-color check,
lace, 8-round lace pattern, and aran with a cable needle. Nenah uses sport or DK
weight solid and self-patterning yarns. |
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KNITTING with Alice Korach Video 043
In bead knitting, the
entire piece is constructed with beads as opposed to beaded knitting where beads
embellish the surface of the knitted item. You’ll be able to make a beautiful
beaded bag, even if you’ve never knitted before. After a brief history and
discussion on materials and supplies, Alice will teach you basic knitting
techniques and then bead knitting stitches. After you practice stringing beads
and knitting, you will learn how to read a chart (enclosed) and string your
beads following the chart. Then the fun begins as you knit the purse project.
You’ll learn many wonderful tips from a master bead knitter that will make the
process easy and successful. Tips on lining, fringe techniques and finishing
your bag are also included. 75 minutes |
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Beyond Purl
DVD 743
The first video in a series of
instructional knitting DVDs from LoriKnits will show you the very best in tips,
tricks and techniques. Included are: 5 Different Cast-Ons, 5
Decreases and when/how to use them, - Knitting in your ends as you go,
Knitting backward, Cable without a cable needle, Advanced cable without a
cable needle and more... 102 minutes |
Click Here to Order BUTTONHOLES AND BANDS
955 Leslye Solomon &
Dorothy Ratigan Make cardigan bands with attractive buttonholes! Learn a
special band cast-on and a variety of bands from a stockinette, slip stitched
or piped cord, cabled, ribbed, curled, and steeked bands. Techniques for
joining the band to your sweater and buttonhole placement calculations are
also shown. A huge variety of vertical and horizontal buttonholes are
given so that you can finish your band to your specification. Two
crocheted button holes are shown, too. 90 minutes
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Nenah Galati offers a wonderful introduction to the world of knitting, she
covers all the basics. The menu on the DVD takes you to whatever part you are
working on, long tail cast on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, bind off. Then
Nenah will guide the newcomer through all the steps to knit a scarf, hat and
wash cloth. Written instructions always included. $24.95 |
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KNITTING with Nancy Wiseman
Used in Europe for years, this technique of knitting with the right hand while
holding the yarn in the left hand is known for its speed and smoothness. Knit,
purl, ribbing, increases, and decreases are shown; plus a brief description of
two-handed Fair Isle knitting. If you are trying to learn this style of
knitting, the close-ups of what your hands should be doing is invaluable. 60
minutes
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Nenah Galati offers a wonderful introduction to the world of knitting, she
covers all the basics. The menu on the DVD takes you to whatever part you are
working on, long tail cast on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, bind off. Then
Nenah will guide the newcomer through all the steps to knit a scarf, hat and
wash cloth. Written instructions always included. |
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Entrelac Knitting Hats and Bags
DVD 745 With Nenah Galati.
Make an entrelac bag in the round, felt or not, Using Nenah's method of knitting
base triangles and then, with second color knitting backwards again and so on.
The hat uses the same technique but make decreases in the crown. Unique
way to do entrelac. |
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James and Sandy Kreiss
A
basic video covering the most commonly used finishing techniques: weaving
shoulder seams, double needle bind-off, slip stitching shoulders, setting in
sleeves, weaving side seams, weaving garter stitch, weaving stripes, weaving
reverse stockinette, picking up stitches, one row buttonhole, faced band
buttonhole, rolled edge cast-on, rolled edge bind off. Good close-up
photography for easy learning. 43 minutes
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Click Here to Order HAND KNITTED LACE VHS Video with Nancie
Wiseman
Nancie shows you the basics of
knitting lace. She starts off by showing you how to bind-on cast-off for
borders, shows how to start a doilie from the center, how to block and finish
lace projects, and how to properly store lace. You will knit a lace
sampler from a a pattern included with they video. She also shows you how
and when you can rip out stitches, how to pick-up dropped yarn-overs, which
directions you should wrap your yarn for specific yarn-over placement, and how
to knit lace using the American or continental method of knitting.
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Click Here to Order Handknitter's Guide to Sweater Finishing, Leslye Solomon.
Take the frustration out of sweater finishing. Video explains how fibers
will change from gravity, wear and laundering. How to block. Learn a
variety of shoulder seams. 3 needle bind-off, kitchner stitch from needles
with waste yarn and invisible grafting for ribbing. Learn how to make side
seams invisible, how to use short rows for shoulders and necks, how to sew in
the sleeve or hot to pick up and knit the sleeves, sew in a zipper, pick up
stitches for necks and hot to bind off a 1x1 rib. Calculate buttonhole
placement for cardigans. A new way to sew afghan pieces together. A
Thorough Video!
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How to Knit a Sweater from the
Neck Down DVD 746
With Nenah Galati. Knit from
the neck down and you will have a finished sweater when you bind off at the
bottom. For this sweater project you choose a sport to bulky weight yarn
and select a finished chest measurement from 38"-50" |
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Click Here to Order KNITTED TRIMS: For
Woven, Pieced, Felted, Crocheted, and Knitted Projects with Ginger Luters
Knit trims can be used to finish
all types of textile projects in a professional manner. Many of these
trims can be worked right along the edge of the garment while others are first
constructed and then sewn on. You will learn about choosing yarns and
needles and how to determine the length of trim needed and the quantity of yarn.
Ginger teaches you many variations of I-cord including multiple I-cord, twisted,
braided and flat I-cord trims, mock cable, pie crust, picot, vertical garter
stitch, two-color garter slipstich, pointed saw-tooth, scalloped shell, pitcot
point, and looped and afghan garter stitch edgings. This video will serve as a valuable
reference library of knitted terms. 84 minutes
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Click Here to Order KNITTING GLOSSARY with
Elizabeth Zimmermann & Meg Swanson
Two Video Set. 100 techniques demonstrated by
Elizabeth & Meg, in alphabetical order, with a video guide so that you may
index them for future reference. Each stitch is described & demonstrated.
Many knitted garments show how, when & where you might want to use various
stitches and how they look as part of a completed piece. 240 minutes.
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Click Here to Order KNITTING, Multi-Color
Techniques for Handknitters with Susie Hodges
This intermediate knitting course assumes that you already know knitting basics,
how to cast on, knit & purl. You will learn how to do color gradation with
single and multiple rows of stripes, then Intarsia, Jacquard, stranded & weaving
techniques with multiple colors; how to knit seams together, incorporate beads,
plus one-handed and two-handed knitting techniques, which means you will be
learning both the American/British & Continental methods of knitting!! You'll
even learn how to carry multiple strands of yarn in both hands at the same time,
as you combine the British & Continental methods. 117 minutes
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KNITTING UNSPUN SILK VHS Video with
Sammy Eber
Learn how to knit unspun silk
fiber as you make a beautiful scarf from a silk mawata cap or bell. Silk,
being a very strong and long fiber can be separated into a continuous filament,
just the right size to knit with.
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Knitting
Around VHS Video 898
This set of three videos presents the
down home aspects and stories of Elizabeth and Meg plus tons of knitting how-to
information. The following projects are given in this Woolgathering series
format: Moccasin Socks and Other Stockings; Fair Isle Yoke Sweater; Knitted
Dickeys and a Very Warm Hat; Knitted Moebius; Bog Jacket; Pie are Square Shawl;
Norwegian Pullover; Mittful of Mittens; An Aran Coat. Learn from the masters of
knitting while enjoying a charming life story. 6 hours. |
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Click Here to Order KNITTING WORKSHOP with
Elizabeth Zimmermann
This 3 video set. In this workshop, you will start with the basics by knitting
a hat. Then you move on to two sweaters: a seamless yoke sweater and a
drop-shoulder sweater. The final tape covers more advanced techniques including
shaping, lace patterns, Arans, Guernseys, and Fair Isle designs. Elizabeth
Zimmermann always knits in the round using the knit-to-fit method of pattern
design called EPS (Elizabeth's Percentage System). A classic video. 3-video 6
hours
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OOPS CORRECTING KNITTING MISTAKES DVD757 This is an intermediate
knitting presentation offering you information on how to fix mistakes. Lori
teaches about stitch orientation and how to pick up dropped stitches for stockinette, garter, a long-tail cast-on, and edge stitches. She shows you how
to change stitches in rows below, how to rip your work, and how to make a
duplicate stitch. Her section on creating missed stitches includes yarn over,
knit two together, SSK, right-slanting make one, left-slanting make one, and
simple buttonholes. She also teaches re-twisting and incorrect cable, tightening
a loose bind-off, and cutting your work from the bottom up. A CD is included so
that you can print text and pictures for future reference. 180 minutes. |
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HAND & MACHINE KNITTERS
with Leslye Solomon This
comprehensive video includes all you need to know to finish those hand and
machine knits: block (before assembling) a new way using wires; make invisible
side/shoulder seams; improve ribbed neck bands; make reversible seams for
Afghan; install set-in or drop shoulder sleeves; kitchner stitch, easily install
a zipper; shorten or lengthen knits, plus a whole lot more. 118 minutes
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COLORFUL KNITTING VHS Video with Nancie Wiseman
Slipped stitches, intarsia, and
Fair Isle--learn the basics of each of these techniques. These methods of
knitting are shown in both Continental and American style knitting--even
two-handed knitting. Learn how to work with bobbins, the proper way
to read charts, and the correct way to slip stitches. Lots of close-ups
offer good instructions. 80 minutes
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