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Fiber

• Cashmere — How to choose a quality cashmere yarn.
• Mercerized cotton — A fresh look.
• Silk — How to get the most out of this luxurious fiber while avoiding disaster.
• Superwash — Is superwash the only machine-washable wool?
• Untreated wool — Why you should consider untreated wool for your next project.

Texture

• Blown yarns — Are they any good?
• Ply structure — Differences between plied yarns.
• Twist — The difference between Z-twist and S-twist, and what it means for your knitting and crocheting.

Tools

• Knitting increase calculator — Spread your increases evenly across a row
• Knitting decrease calculator — Spread your decreases evenly across a row

Techniques

• Yarn stitch markers — Why you might like stitch markers made of yarn, and tips for making them.
• How do you hold your knitting? — How knitting in more than one style improved my knitting life!
• A better cable cast-on — Fix the rounded corner of a cable cast-on.
• Final bind-off stitch — Tidy up the bind-off corner.
• Center-pull balls of yarn — How to make them and why you'd want to.
• Adding twist to splitty yarns — A simple change to stop yarns untwisting as you work them.
• Capturing the colors of a skein — An unusual way to knit a multicolored yarn.
• Knitting backwards — A way to avoid purling in stockinette stitch.

Increasing and decreasing

• K2Tog-L — The only left-leaning decrease you'll ever need.
• KFSB — A neater, easier alternative to a KFB increase.
• Make 1 (M1) increase — Right-leaning, left-leaning, knit side, purl side.

Intarsia tips

• Intarsia cast-on — How to make vertical lines of color starting from a neat cast-on edge.
• Neater intarsia — A simple fix for untidy stitches around a vertical color change.

Joining yarn

• Compendium of yarn joins — Methods of adding new yarn and when to use them.
• Twist-and-Weave — Add a new color without leaving holes or knots.

Short rows

• Double short rows — Two short rows at the same stitch for interesting design possibilities.

All about gauge

• How to knit a swatch and why we strongly recommend swatching
• Getting gauge — Why you should wet block gauge swatches.
• Three balls or four? — What you should know about the way gauge affects yardage.
• Stretch-blocking — How far can you stretch a knitted piece without it looking awful?

Guest articles

• Anna Feldman — The magic of learning to knit.