IST 605: 🔮 The Stitching Hour: Fiber Arts from Then to Now 🔮

This beginner-friendly video provides a step-by-step guide to fundamental knitting techniques, including making a slip knot, casting on, knitting, and binding off. It also includes helpful tips on how to recover from a dropped stitch, making it a comprehensive introduction for first-time knitters.

This detailed tutorial breaks down the purl stitch, a key counterpart to the knit stitch and essential to mastering more complex stitch patterns. Viewers will learn the technique step-by-step and explore the structure and function of the purl stitch, including its relationship to knit stitches in pattern development.

Designed for complete beginners, this video walks through the basics of crochet, including required materials, making a slip knot, holding the hook, chaining, single crochet, and weaving in ends. A clear and approachable starting point for anyone new to the craft.

This quick and accessible tutorial introduces viewers to amigurumi, the Japanese art of crocheting small, stuffed creatures. Focusing on a simple baby octopus project, the video offers a great first step into this fun and popular crochet technique.