How to graft knitting with Kitchener stitch

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This essential grafting technique is so easy to forget! Remind yourself of the key steps with Jen Storey’s quick guide.

In our series of regular knitting masterclasses by expert knitters, we guide you through how to boost your knitting skills. It’s always good to brush up on our basic skills, and one technique we often use our knitting is Kitchener stitch, or grafting. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use it to join live stitches together seamlessly, and is typically used to close sock toes or to join two halves of a lace shawl.

Zoe Williams

Zoe launched Gathered.how as editor in 2019. A keen crafter, quilter and sewist, she has worked with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines – from Today’s Quilter to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. With over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt, she loves crafting with her kids and curling up on the sofa with a spot of hand patchwork. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Specialist skills include hand modelling for YouTube craft tutorials and fabric foraging (she has an inbuilt radar for local haberdasheries and community craft gatherings).

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