Tutorials - hardybarn designs

digital image of knitted fabric on a knitting needle

Adobe Illustrator How to: Knitting Illustrations

a hand-knitted blanket made with squares that alternate between beach scenes, cables and stripes

Photo Tutorial: How to Back a Knitted Blanket

a flow chart describing what type of cast-on to use

Cast-On Flow Chart

Photo Tutorial: Twisted German Cast-On

a khaki green swatch showing an estonian cast-on edge and another small swatch blurred out in the background

Photo Tutorial: Estonian Cast-On

a close up of a double estonian cast-on in a steel blue colour

Photo Tutorial: Double Estonian Cast-On

a pile of hand knitted swatches in various colours and stitch patterns

Swatch, swatch, swatch...

Möbius Methods

a hand holding two knitting needles with gold yarn on the needles

Photo Tutorial: Neater Knit to Purl Yarnover

a royal blue colour ball of yarn and a smaller piece of the same yarn in a butterfly in the foreground

Photo Tutorial: How to Measure Yarn for Intarsia

5 different ribbed swatches showing different techniques for preventing a loose knit stitch

Photo Tutorial: How to Improve the Loose Knit Stitch before a Purl

a pair of hand knit socks with a texture on the front on sock blockers. the yarn is pink and green self-striping

Video Tutorial: Judy's Magic Cast-On for Toe-Up Socks

a pair of hand knit socks in self-striping yarn in oranges, reds and a flash of lime green.

Video Tutorial: Two-at-a-time sock cast-on