How To…

Backward Loop & Forward Loop Increase 

a common & useful increase

my go-to cast on for underarm stitches & for joining fronts (this is not a provisional cast on)

my go-to buttonhole · snug & precise

creating the front overlap and turn for the built-in buttonband (Part One)

knit this buttonband organically along with your cardigan – no pucker, no flab (Part Two)

the simplest cast on imaginable · no intervening knitted row · perfect for Ziggurat buttonbands

Steps 1–5 for the classic Ziggurat sweater

German Short Rows – also in the round