Advanced grafting

I always thought there must be some way of grafting even the most complex stitch patterns, but until recently I'd never found this information either in books or online. Joni Coniglio has written an amazing amount of articles about grafting for Interweave. They're all super detailed (even too much: prepare for a tour de force) and clearly written and there are so many of them it's too much work to list them all here. I'll give only a couple of examples that I found particularly useful.

If you ever need to graft lace, here is an absolutely amazing tutorial on how to do so:

An Education in Lace Grafting

Note, this is actually a series of tutorials and you can find the links to the rest of the series at the end of the article.

And here is another on grafting brioche which includes video tutorials:

Brioche Stitch 101

If you'd like to check her other tutorials, I found them by clicking on Joni's name at the top of the articles.

Socks

And since we are talking about grafting. The toes of socks are the most commonly grafted projects. There is a well-known problem with grafting socks known as "dog-ears" and two easy ways to fix it. And you can use both at the same time, which works even better.

The first thing to do is to bind-off in pattern by working decreases before starting the Kitchener stitch (you could also do both at the same time, but it's easier to do the decreases first). Here is a video that explains this technique:

The second thing you can do is to work the edge stitches only once. This creates half-stitches at the edges, which are less bulky than full stitches. Here is a video that explains this technique:

This last video also shows how to weave in the end using duplicate stitch, which is a very good idea.