We're here to help you stitch sustainability into every aspect of your making.
With our carefully curated selection of non-superwash, plastic-free yarns and notions, we have everything you need to get started on your next project - and the one after that.
Here's to a wardrobe of knits we love and want to wear for years to come!
Knitting Help
our favorite tutorials
Each link will take you to a tutorial for that particular technique, but if you need any extra help, or you think there is one we’ve missed, please do not hesitate in getting in touch at hello@making-stories.com.
Cast-On
- 1x1 Tubular Cast-On, Long-Tail Method
- 1x1 Tubular Cast-On, Waste Yarn Method
- Alternate Cable Cast-On
- Backwards-Loop Cast-On
- Cable Cast-On
- Crochet Cast-On
- Estonian Cast-On
- German Twisted Cast-On
- Judy’s Magic Cast-On
- Knitted Cast-On
- Long-Tail Cast-On
- Long-Tail Provisional Cast-On
- Provisional Cast-On
- Turkish Cast-On
- Winding Provisional Cast-On
- Italian Cast-On
- Italian Two-Colour Cast-On
Bind-Off
- 1x1 Tubular Bind-Off without separating stitches
- 1x1 Tubular Bind-Off with separating stitches
- 1x1 Sewn Bind-Off
- I-Cord Bind-Off
- Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off
- Simple Stretchy Bind-Off
Stitch Patterns
Special Techniques
- Colorwork Knitting (Continental Style)
- (Estonian) Knit Fringe
- German Short Rows / Double Stitch
- resolving German Short Rows for Stitches worked on WS
- Grafting / Kitchener Stitch (It refers to the same technique!)
- Intarsia in the Round
- Magic Loop Technique
- Mattress Stitch
- Picking Up Stitches (With & Without Knitting Them)
check out our blog for more in-depth help:
Thoughts on closing down a knitting magazine
As a lot of you might have suspected I have, at last, made the decision to definitely close down Making Stories Magazine after Issue 14, our 2025 Fall & Winter issue. This means we still have two issues to go - Issue 13, coming out in March (Confetti & Rainbows!!), and Issue 14, coming out in September. I wanted to share this decision with you bright and early as I don’t feel like holding this in when we publish our last Spring and then our very last Fall & Winter issue. I want to celebrate those issues, and the work that we have done over the last eight years, and I want to be able to share the bittersweet feelings that will inevitably come up when the list of “lasts” still do be done gets shorter and shorter.
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All the knits I finished while recovering from surgery
About three weeks ago, I had surgery. Nothing major, and it was planned - but it was my first time undergoing general anaesthesia and facing an uncertain recovery period, both of which made me quite nervous. I knew that I was going to be in the hospital for two days, if everything went well, but then it was between one and three weeks of recovering at home, depending on how fast my body was going to heal.
Needless to say, I packed knitting for the hospital, but I didn’t feel like picking up my needles until my second day in the hospital. And then I knit. I knit, and knit, and knit. Curiously enough, I always get the urge to clear off my needles this time of the year - something about the weather changing, sweater season approaching, maybe? And this year, this urge coincided with me wanting to do something while watching copious amounts of Netflix without having to think very hard about what I was going to knit. Win win!
Art Nouveau Sample Preview Video - Issue 12, Fall & Winter 2024
Let’s wander the streets of Brussels and Paris, searching for the hidden architectural Art Nouveau gems – houses, doors, windows, street lamps. Let’s explore Berlin’s Jugendstil tile art, marvelling at the colors and shapes taking form. Let’s get lost in the work of water color artists, glass blowers, jewellers, embroidery artists, and myriads more, who dive into the shapes and curves of plants and flowers, moving, flowing, mirroring.
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Issue 12 – Art Nouveau | Official Pattern Preview
Hi lovelies! I am thrilled to dive into the gorgeous, intricate world of Art Nouveau with you in our Fall & Winter 2024 issue: Issue 12. Issue 12 holds 12 stunning, artful, wearable knitwear designs inspired by this unique time period as well as 3 essays and one poem that explore different facets of Art Nouveau.
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