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Patterns to knit Christmas stockings can be found to print free on the Yahoo Voices website. Many women's magazines will print patterns in the run up to Christmas.
Patterns to knit men's mittens can be found online on various arts and crafts websites. You can also purchase a book on knitting patterns on a website like Amazon.
One might go to the website "Vogue Knitting" to find instructions on how to knit a dress. Patterns may also be downloaded and printed for various styles of dresses.
There are links attached to some sites where you can find instructions to Knitting or Crocheting patterns for preemies.
There are several patterns here:http://knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/hats.php
Phantex is a type of yarn, it's usually cotton, sport or worsted weight. You knit with it like you would with any other worsted weight yarn. If you want some patterns for it you may find some in a craft store or on line.
Knitty Gitty (by Aneeta Patel), Knit Step by Step (by Vikki Haffenden and Frederica Patmore), How to Knit (by Debbie Biss) are some of the knitting patterns books best for a beginner.
You can knit anything using home-spun fibres.
The best place for finding patterns for whatever knitting project one might have it a site called KnittingHelp. On this site you can find tips and patterns for both human projects and animal knitting.
Really, it does not matter. Most patterns do not specify which to start with, and if they don't, then you can start with whichever one you want.However, some patterns will specify. For example, a pattern might say,Beginning with a knit row, work in stockinette stitch for... In this case, you would knit the first row, and go from there.
sure. There is a Japanese lady in my knitting group who gets her patterns and yarn from Japan.
No. With most patterns the first row is the row you knit after you have cast on.