A YEAR OF TECHNIQUES by ARNALL CULLIFORD

A Year of Techniques brings you 12 patterns and tutorials to upgrade your knitting skills. With projects from world-class designers accompanied by clear step-wise tutorials and online videos, there's always something new to learn.

• Afterthought heels and thumbs
• Garter stitch grafting
• Helical stripes
• Intarsia
• Judy's magic cast on (both for starting closed tubes, and as a provisional cast on)
• Knitting on a border
• Mastering dominance in Fair Isle knitting
• Pinhole cast on (also known as Emily Ocker's circular cast on)
• Reading cables from charts
• Short rows
• Steeks and
• Turning a heel

Designers contributing patterns for A Year of Techniques are:

• Bristol Ivy
• Ella Austin
• Ella Gordon
• Jen Arnall-Culliford
• Jim Arnall-Culliford
• Martina Behm
• Mary Jane Mucklestone
• Rachel Coopey
• Romi Hill
• Sarah Hatton
• Tin Can Knits and
• Woolly Wormhead