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This video shows how to graft brioche knitting in two passes to create a seamless fabric. This technique requires that you use a provisional cast on to start your project.

How to Graft Your Knitting, The Easy Way - No Kitchener Stitch Required! Grafting your knitting doesn't have to be difficult or confusing! Use this simple technique for a seamless join, without the hassle of Kitchener stitch.

Knitting tutorial for making non-stranded vertical plaid. This is an alternative to using Duplicate Stitch for adding in vertical stripes.

Tying a knot may seem like a simple skill to master, but the Magic No-Ends Knot Video Tutorial will teach you how to tie a special type of knot that does not have any ends. This type of knot is perfect for a wide range of free knitting patterns. When it comes to working with yarn, it is incredibly important to be able to tie a secure knot as quickly as possible. This step-by-step video will teach you everything you need to know about this super helpful knot tying technique.

Learn how to weave in your loose ends forever. Works on all animal fiber yarns but also on silk and even on synthetic fibers.

Get Rid of Ends in 2 steps- Learn to Bury in Ends.

This is NOT just for intarsia and it is NOT just for needle knitting, this will work with crochet or loom knitting or arm knitting as well. Use the seam of your project to bury in the end.

This technique is not only good for intarsia but for all your finishing. Now learn how to finish your work perfectly.

Pattern by Louise Patterson. The Diagonal Braid is a textured stitch that produces a reversible fabric. This pattern is for a dishcloth, but it could be extended to make a scarf or blanket.

This looks like a sort of staggered rib stitch.

A very nice \lace\ stitch which isn't full of big holes. Short-length cables overlap each other in a staggered zig-zag pattern.

Pattern by Elsie Chokov. A mock-cable pattern made by doing 3x3 ribbing, and then cinching that by passing a slipped stitch over some of the stitches (like one was doing Bamboo Stitch).

How to join 2 pieces of knitting with mattress stitch. In this video, the seaming is done on flat panels in stockinette stitch.

Interesting technique: knitting socks with crochet hooks instead of double-pointed-needles. I think it requires four or five identical crochet hooks; one is the working hook, and the others are holding the stitches. Note that these are normal crochet hooks, not Tunisian. I'm not sure if it would work with Tunisian crochet hooks, because the stoppers at the end might get in the way.

Exploring the difference between wire knitting and wire (single) crochet. Good pictures, good explanations.

Video demonstration of an easier way of doing cables with a knook (knitting hook). (Mind you, the standard way of doing a cable with a knitting hook is still MUCH easier than trying to cable on a knitting loom) The idea is to give yourself more manoeuvrability by doing the first half of the cable, then pull those stitches down onto your cord/lifeline, thus freeing up your hook to easily do the second half of the cable.

This comment in the thread suggests an interesting cast-on method for hook-knitting: do a chain twice as long as you need, then pull up a loop through every other chain. This allows for stretchiness unlike the usual crochet cast-on.

Nify idea: with a bamboo (or wood) knook hook, sharpen the tip with a pencil sharpener, so it goes into the stitches more easily.

Useful diagram for what to measure when designing fingerless gloves. Some of these measurements aren't needed - they could be calculated from the others - but it is still useful to note.

Since this is a mix of knit and purl, it is easily converted to loom knitting: Row 1: +K1, P5, K5, P1+ [Row 2]: +P2, K4, P4, K2+ Row 3: +K3, P3+ [Row 4]: +P4, K2, P2, K4+ Row 5: +K5, P1, K1, P5+ [Row 6]: +P6, K6+ Row 7: +K6, P6+ [Row 8]: +P6, K6+ Row 9: +P1, K5, P5, K1+ [Row 10]: +K2, P4, K4, P2+ Row 11: +P3, K3+ [Row 12]: +K4, P2, K2, P4+ Row 13: +P5, K1, P1, K5+ [Row 14]: +K6, P6+ Row 15: +P6, K6+ [Row 16]: +K6,P6+

Knitting with scales, the loom-knitting method. This method will probably work for crochet as well. The secret is: knit the item first, then add the scales by doing scale-maille while linking the scales to the knitting as well as each other.

I like this idea; start off loomknitting then split into three, braid them, and then knit them together again.