The Rick Rib is a classic lace openwork stitch. It creates a mesh lattice with a beautiful diagonal criss-cross pattern. It's light and delicate, extremely stretchy, and reversible.

The Woven Cable Stitch pattern creates a tight, dense fabric with a woven basketweave look. The effect is created by combining 2/2 Right and Left Crosses on offset rows. This makes the pattern appear to weave in and out for a very pleasant effect.

The caterpillar stitch is a simple knit and purl pattern that creates a fabric with short diagonal lines. This subtle texture looks like little caterpillars working their way across the fabric.

A lifeline is a piece of waste yarn that allows you to rip back your stitches when you make a mistake. Since it can be difficult to rip out stitches when making mistakes in lace knitting, a lifeline will allow you to start at the beginning of a repeat, rather …

The wave stitch is a reversible lace pattern consisting of rows of garter stitch that rise and fall like waves. This effect is achieved by using extended drop stitches at varying lengths. By offsetting these stitches on alternating rows, the wave like pattern is created. It's a beautiful design that's …

The woven circles stitch is an all-over cable pattern. By placing winding cable columns next to each other strategically, the appearance of small circles is created. This gives the fabric a nice geometric design with lots of texture.

The knotted boxes is a heavily textured knitting fabric. It creates the illusion of smooth vertical stripes woven with bumpy horizontal rows. To some it may look like small offset knots, making a pattern of checkered boxes. Either way, this all-over pattern works great on large pieces of fabric, where …

Knitting from a center pull ball keeps your yarn from rolling everywhere as you work. This tutorial will show you how to wind one yourself.

The Picot Dot Edge stitch is a beautiful lace border that can easily be added to the beginning of a project. It's consists of small shell like clusters of stitches with tiny eyelet holes between them. This simple yet delicate border is used from the bottom up, that is starting …

The eyelet lattice insertion is a lace panel with a lattice weave. It uses simple eyelets in a diamond pattern to create the criss cross design. This is meant to be a lace motif that is inserted into another project as an accent.