General suggestions

• Suggestions from the list about working with cotton, especially FoxFibre.
• Suggestions from the list about knitting with beads.
• Thoughts on color, from Sally Melville.
• Hints about the count of yarns: what does it mean for a yarn to be 2/8? From Vickie Starbuck.
• Working with variegated yarns, from JamieCL@aol.com.
• How to knit backwards, from Steve Allen. This trick is invaluable if you're making something in entrelac.
• Thoughts on biasing, that annoying habit that some yarns have of knitting up into diagonal instead of straight fabric. From Lisa Schweitzer.

Tricks for works-in-progress

• What 'ssk' means in a knitting pattern, from Arlene Williams.
• Meg Swansen's invisible cast-on method, as described by Lee from the knitting list.
• Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer's instructions on how to wrap stitches, saved from the Wool Works bulletin boards.
• Suggestions for keeping track of rows, from Nancy Lutz.
• A suggestion for firm, neat buttonholes, from Grace Judson.
• A trick for making a double neck on a sweater, from Mikel Shilling.
• How to make V-necks, from Sally Pecor.
• Suggestions about shoulder shaping, from Colleen Stumbaugh.
• How to make a cable without using a cable needle, from Katie Swanson.
• Organizing colors for intarsia, from Steve Allen.
• Managing intarsia bobbins, a knitlist hint posted by Sandy.

Finishing methods

• A selection of posts from the knitting list about ways to deal with yarn ends in a finished product.
• A few knitting list posts about casting or binding off.
• A summary of suggestions about how to sew up a chenille garment, by Marina McIntire.
• Some knitlist hints about nonslip slippers, posted by Ann Prochowicz.
• Suggestions about which sewing machines to use with knitted fabric, from Laura MacCary.
• Seaming tips, from Sally Melville.
• Grafting hints from Robert Matthews.
• Laura Rasmussen's method for increasing the size of a finished sweater -- she calls it "whapping".
• Nancy Lutz's description of her experiences with blocking. Blocking is "the process of laying flat completed pieces of knitting to even and smooth the stitches and to give them their permanent shape" (definition from the book Vogue Knitting).
• Suggestions about using zippers in knitted garments, from B.J. Licko-Keel.

Miscellaneous

• How to make stabilizers for baseball caps, collected by Kim Salazar.
• A recommendation for a stain remover, from Manny Olds.
• Suggestions for teaching kids how to knit, from Margaret Radcliffe.
• Hints for making an alpaca vest, collected by Amy Tyler.
• Suggestions for making sweaters for large men, collected by Kim Salazar.
• A couple of posts about making Aran sweaters.