Dr. Llama
Saving lives one stitch at a time.

YARNY BASICS
About yarn weights and how to make a slip knot.
Part I of How to Block: The Basics
Part II of How to Block: Wet, Steam, and Spritz Blocking

HOW TO KNIT FOR BEGINNERS
Part I: How to make a slip knot and cast on.
Part II: How to do the knit stitch and create the garter stitch.
Part III: How to purl and create the stockinette stitch.
Part IV: How to cast off and weave in you ends. 

INTERMEDIATE KNITTING TECHNIQUES 
Double-Sided Knitting
How to knit a seamless toe using a provisional cast on.
Adding an applied I-Cord. (Scroll to the bottom of the post.)
The Lattes and Llamas Join (LLJ) Geek-A-Long picture tutorial.
Double Sided Geek-A-Long Join

HOW TO CROCHET FOR BEGINNERS
How to crochet a chain.
Single Crochet
Single Crochet Geek-A-Long Join

2 thoughts on “Tutorials

  1. Tamara says:

    I have attempted a few of the geek-a-long squares converted to Tunisian crochet, but I end up with oblong rectangles. How do you get a square when you’re pattern is 45×57?

    • Jac says:

      The crocheted squares will never be as square as the knit ones because the row-to-stitch ratio is different. With the acceptation of any squares from 2015, which have a ratio more geared to crochet, they’ll all be rectangles. I don’t have much practice with Tunisian crochet to tell you why your squares are particularly oblong. But, if you’re images are being skewed, I’d recommend starting with squares from years 2017-2019. In 2017, I started making a color chart especially for crocheters, so that the image would not be skewed for them.

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