Sunday, November 13, 2011

Knittinghelp.com: A Fantastic Website for all Knitters

Regardless of whether you are a novice to knitting, or you have been doing it your entire life, Knittinghelp.com is a great website for you.  It has step by step instructions for basic knitting steps like casting on, as well as instruction videos.  This website is great because it helps you decide what you want to do for a first project (A scarf is recommended).  Then it helps you choose the needles and yarn that will best fit your needs.  It is full of helpful tips, such as looking on the packaging of your yarn to see which size needle is recommended.  There is so much information of this site that you cannot leave it without having learned something.  There are sections of the different styles of knitting, Continental and English, the different patterns, which needles go with which fabrics, and so on.

This website is also a fun place for knitter around the world to get together on the website’s forum.  Topics include: General Knitting, How-To Questions, Charity Knitting, and many others.  In addition to the forum, there is a shop, with many knitting related items like needle kits, DVDs and books.  There is also a section dedicated to patterns, a glossary and a section called the Stash which has links to other nifty websites.  

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