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How to Create an Art Car

Choose an automobile to modify., Choose your theme., Plan your car art and start where it draws you., Make any...

16 steps 4 min Advanced
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How to Improve Your Art Skills

One of the most important things in art is practicing., Take a few moments each day to study your surroundings., Don't...

12 steps 4 min Advanced
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How to Make a Portable Art Kit

Identify what tools you want., Get the tools., Buy the container., Buy a sketchbook.You can buy them anywhere...

5 steps 2 min Medium
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How to Arm Knit a Blanket

Choose your yarn., Pull five feet of yarn out of the skein., Cast on your first stitch., Knit your first row., Transfer...

7 steps 4 min Medium
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How to Illusion Knit

Gather your yarn, knitting needles, and a place to put them., Create a pattern on graph paper or a spreadsheet program...

9 steps 3 min Medium
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How to Knit Left Handed

Learn the four main terms of knitting., Cast on by making a slipknot and place it on a knitting needle., Learn to knit...

10 steps 4 min Medium
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How to Crochet Cable Stitch

Work a foundation chain., Work one row of double crochet., Double crochet into the start of the next row., Work two...

11 steps 4 min Medium
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How to Change Yarn

To change yarn a different way, make a slipknot in the new yarn then pass the old yarn through it. , Slide the new yarn...

5 steps 1 min Medium
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How to Knit a Backwards Loop Cast On

Pull out about ten inches (25cm) of yarn from your yarn ball., Make a slipknot with an approximate five inch (12.5cm)...

12 steps 1 min Medium
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How to Knit the Moss or Seed Stitch

Cast on the number of stitches that you will need to complete your project., Do your first row by alternating between...

4 steps 2 min Medium
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How to Knit the Knit Stitch

Get a pair of knitting needles and yarn., Cast on your stitches., Hold the needles in your hands., Push the tip of the...

13 steps 4 min Advanced
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How to Knit the Mistake Rib Pattern

For the sake of example, start by presuming that we are knitting a simple scarf., Cast on the number, for example, 23...

15 steps 1 min Advanced
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How to Knit the Purl Stitch

Cast on as many stitches as you would like., Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand and the empty...

13 steps 1 min Medium
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How to Knit the Brioche Stitch

Gather your materials., Cast on your stitches., Purl two together., Do a yarn over., Repeat the process to the end of...

9 steps 4 min Medium
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How to Slip Slip Knit

Knit the stitches until the point where the pattern tells you to decrease., Slip two stitches knit wise onto the right...

9 steps 1 min Medium
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How to Knit Ribbing

Make a triangular shape with the yarn using your fingers., Cast on., Add your desired number of stitches to your...

18 steps 8 min Advanced
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How to Knit a Cable

Cast on 18 stitches onto the left needle., Use the following pattern for the next four rows., Purl the first six...

13 steps 3 min Advanced
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How to Knit Decreases

Decide which decrease to use., K2tog or knit two together: This is one of the simplest decreases., P2tog or purl two...

11 steps 2 min Medium
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How to Knit the Duplicate Stitch

Understand that Duplicate Stitch simply means covering existing stitches with a different coloured yarn to create a...

12 steps 2 min Medium
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How to Knit the Basketweave Stitch

Cast on a multiple of 8 plus 3 stitches., Understand that "K" stands for "knit" in this pattern and "P" stands for...

5 steps 1 min Medium
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How to Change Colors in Knitting

Start knitting., Insert the needle into the first stitch., Knit a couple stitches with your working yarn and tail...

13 steps 6 min Advanced

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