title: Knitting Pattern Essentials: Adapting and Drafting Knitting Patterns for Great Knitwear
author:  Sally Melville 
description: SALLY MELVILLE is a widely published and highly sought after knitwear designer who every year teaches a dozen different workshops at more than twenty venues across North America. Her work has appeared in many magazines, from <i>Vogue Knitting</i> to <i>Interweave Knits,</i> and she is the author of several books, including the bestselling Knitting Experience series. Visit Sally online at www.sallymelvilleknits.com.
zlib_text: WITH SALLY MELVILLE   
  Every Knitter Should Know
  Essential Techniques
  Beginner Level
  
  In more than 50 years of knitting and 35 years 
  of teaching, Sally Melville has taken hundreds 
  of finished garments off her needles and taught 
  hundreds of different classes. Today, she is the 
  author of seven knitting books including Sally 
  Melville Styles, The Knitting Experience series, and 
  Knitting Pattern Essentials. Her gift for making 
  knitting simple, useful, and fun has long made 
  Sally a beloved instructor. Sally is dedicated to 
  helping knitters make pieces they’ll be proud to 
  show the world!
  Sally Melville
  www.craftsy.com
  
  Essential Techniques  
  Every Knitter Should Know
  with Sally Melville
  1
  BIND-OFFS
  Basic Sewing Needle Bind-Off
  • 
  Cut yarn to three times 
  the width of the row and 
  thread yarn through a 
  blunt tapestry needle
  • 
  **Take yarn purlwise 
  through first 2 stitches on 
  knitting needle
  • 
  Take yarn knitwise  
  through first stitch on  
  knitting needle
  • 
  Drop first stitch off
  