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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.

Easiest Knitted Hat (Made From a Rectangle!) - Free Knitting Pattern for Beginners by Yay For Yarn This simple-to-make hat is made from a knitted rectangle! It's the perfect project for a beginner knitter, or anytime you want to make a quick and easy project. You won't have to worry about knitting in the round, shaping, or anything like that. If you can cast on, bind off, and work the knit stitch, you can make this hat!

CLICK HERE for the FREE Written Pattern: https://yayforyarn.com/easiest-knitted-hat/

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.

Knitting on the bias, but showing how to make it look like it hasn't, by starting from the corner and increasing. This is demonstrated with needle-knitting, but as it is simple garter stitch, with increases and decreases, it would be easily done with hook-knitting or with loom-knitting.

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.

Donna Wolfe from Naztazia demonstrates how to both crochet and knit a twisted scrubbie based upon a chinese knot.

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.