Skill Builder Challenges

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Expand your skills with quick exercises designed to challenge and inspire you.

Learn key skills | Record your success | Master your machine


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Fill your Machine Locker
Terms Glossary
Meet Other Machine Knitters
What is the Success Path?

Cast On

E-wrap Cast On
Crochet (Chain) Cast on
Slip Cast on - Extra FAST!

Garter Bar Practice

Decrease
RTR: Garter Stitch Ridge
Get Fancy: Garter Eyelets

Lifeline

Lifeline: Scrap off and Rehang
Lifeline: Ravel Cord Method
Rescue Row

Basic Swatching

Get Acquainted (Tension) Swatch
A "Proper" Swatch
Gauge Impact Comparison

Bind off | Cast Off

Round-the-Gatepeg
Picot Bind Off (get fancy)
Stitch-thru-Stitch

Seaming

Seaming on the Machine
Mattress Stitch
Shoulder Seams

Basic Hems

Scrap and Ravel Cast On
E-wrap Cast On
EON Cast on (less bulk)

Mock Ribbing

Basic Mock Ribbing
Explore Options
Seaming Mock Rib Hems

Neckband Finishing

Measure with a ruler
"Eyeball" method
Knit a band

Shaped Shoulders

Manual Wrap
Automatic Wrap
Seaming the Shoulders

Shoulder Seams

Show off Shoulder Seam
3 Needle Bind Off
Russian Join

Fancy Hems

No-Transfer Picot Hem
Best-Ever Picot Hem
Scalloped Eyelet Hem

I-Cord

Basic I-Cord
I-Cord Trims
Knit-in I-Cord

Plaiting

Plaiting on Silver/Singer/Studio
Plaiting on Brother Machines
Plaiting with the LK150

Stripes

Basic Stripes
Seaming Stripes
Single Row Stripes

Ribber Bind off

Easy Ribber Bind Off
Kitchener Bind Off
Kitchener Work Around

Alter Sleeve Length

Shorten a sleeve
Short Sleeve Sweater
Add Sleeves to a Pattern

Curved Hems

Chart a Curve
Knit your curve
Why Curved Hems?

Knitting in Circles

Knit a Pinwheel Circle
Knit a Wedge Circle
Chart A Circle