Knitting Web Resources
Knitting has a long tradition of combining the practical with the beautiful. There's a wealth of goodies on the Net to help both the novice knitter and the more experienced one.
Blogs
Purls Beyond Price
Wendy Knits
Instruction
Vogue Knitting offers lots of resources to help you knit. They have easy-to-follow illustrations of the basic knitting stitches and advice on needles, gauge and substituting yarn . Vogue Knitting also has a glossary and abbreviation guide to help you figure out those sometimes cryptic terms
Stitch Cafe's videos show both the English (a.k.a. American) and the Continental knit stitch and purl stitch.
You can find more instructional videos at the online magazine KnitNet.
Knitting socks? Socknitters has cyberclasses, mini lessons and tips
Joan McAnulty of the South Hills Knitting Guild reworked common stitch patterns for left-handed knitters.
Patterns
Knitting at About.com has a massive list of free patterns.
Socknitter members designed their own sock patterns