New Knitting Pattern: Linen Knit Stitch Placemat

Decorate your home with this easy to make knitted placemat. This is also a perfect gift for someone who enjoys handmade home accents. It's knitted with any fingering weight yarn and size 10 straight needles. The finished size is 12" x 20" and you can easily adjust the pattern to fit your size needs.

CyberSeams Items For Sale!

Like the example work shown on CyberSeams tutorials? We've made some available for purchase!

Visit the store at http://threadandyarn.etsy.com! Quantities are currently limited and prices are low, so catch them while you can!

Handmade Holiday Punch Needle Ornaments – Mounted Onto a Greeting Card

These neat handmade greeting cards start out as a card and come apart to become a treasured holiday ornament! You'll learn how to make an ornament with a punch needle, and optionally mount it on a greeting card as a gift and card all in one. You can embellish it as much or as little as you like, so it's something even a person with no sewing experience can do and look like a pro doing it! Use it as a gift tag, or as the gift itself! Customize it further by adding a personal message on the back.

New Knitting Pattern - Great Gift Idea!

Use your leftover yarn and make a great present for the person who has everything! This is a great holiday gift idea and will help keep your MP3 player protected from dings and scratches. Alternatively, you can use this pattern to hold anything, not just an iPod! Read More...

Knitting and Picking up Stitches

We've got a new tutorial available for knitters!

There have been many requests for instructions on what exactly it means when you're knitting and the pattern says to "pick up stitches." So, we created a tutorial explaining all about it.

Another New Free Pattern - For Straight Knitting Needles!

Adult Loose Winter Cap Pattern - For Straight Needles

    We're happy to oblige with this new hat pattern, designed to be knitted with straight knitting needles. It's not totally plain - we threw in some decorative stitches - horizontal seed stitch lines - but you can easily omit them and still have great results. The ribbing on the base of the cap allows it to fit most heads.

New Free Knitting Pattern - For Straight Needles!

Adult Hat Pattern Fitted & Knitted - for Straight Needles

    This is a free basic pattern for a hat. This pattern is meant for straight needles and the sides are then joined after it's knitted together. Perfect for beginners or anyone who doesn't want to fuss with circulars or DPNs!

More Tutorials! Clipping curves and more on Tote Bag Pattern assembly!

Another new tutorial is up! Sewing Basics - How to Clip Curves on a Seam Allowance. As usual there is a video tutorial associated with it.

Another new video tutorial is up for the recently added Knitted Felted Tote Bag with Pockets. You can view the following assembly videos in the pattern instructions!

Part 1 - Side Seams

Part 2 - Attach the Pockets

Part 3 - How to Felt

How to Braid - new tutorial is up!

We're beginning to delve into basic macramé techniques and the first of these is How to Braid. You can see the new tutorial and video here!

More tutorial: Knitted Felted Tote Bag Part 2 - Attach the Pockets

So much is in the works right now for CyberSeams - but we want to share the latest with you. Currently we have more than a handful of new videos and tutorials in the works, some of which were mentioned in the previous post.



Our latest video tutorial is for the Knitted Felted Tote Bag Part 2 - Attach the Pockets

You can View Part 1: Side Seams here

Learning to knit? Here's some techniques!

There's some new additions to the tutorials that I'd like to mention here:

How to Knit - How to Increase and Decrease Stitches

And the left handed version is here: How to Knit Left Handed - How to Increase and Decrease Stitches

We've also updated How to Knit - Weaving in Loose Ends with yarn needle techniques, to supplement the crochet needle option.


What's coming up? Well, we've received many requests for knitting with circulars and DPNs (double pointed needles) and also will be sharing some basic macramé knots. We've also got some basic sewing techniques in the works so keep your eyes open for more from Cyberseams!

New Pattern! Knitted Felted Tote Bag with Pockets!

I wanted to create a bag with pockets for my knitting projects. It seems like whenever I go to the store and check out the bags they have for knitting, one thing seems to be severely lacking - pockets! So, I set out to make my own pattern and this is what I came up with:



The great thing about this pattern is that if you need more pockets, you simply add them! And you can add them wherever you want them! The pattern includes instructions for the bag, a large sized pocket and a small sized pocket. If you need more large pockets you can make more, or if you need a bunch of small pockets, you can just have a bunch of smaller ones. If you need a deeper bag, the pattern explains where to do this. The instructions also explain how to line the bag and the pockets, and the pockets use magnetic snaps so you don't have to fool around with making buttonholes or getting the button undone. A video tutorial is on its way shortly to help beginners with this project. Happy knitting!

New Knit Stitch tutorial online!

We've got a new knit stitch tutorial Here

Zipper Tutorial For Pants With A Fly Front

A new zipper tutorial is now online here



This is a good general reference for anyone making their own pants, trousers, jeans; any article of clothing with a fly front. The example uses a Suitability pants pattern, and also can be used to substitute a button fly on patterns such as McCalls 4745 Civil War Costume.

The tutorial has still shots and video tutorials to help you along.

Reinforcement and Decorative Stitching

Chances are that if you've ever seen a pair of blue jeans, you've seen a bartack. Read More...

Learn to Follow a Knitting Pattern

k2tog, wl.fwd, k2tog...

Ever wondered what those knitting abbreviations would look like in action? The first of a group of knitting abbreviation tutorials is online and ready to show you!

View the latest tutorial here: How to Follow a Knitting Pattern - Basic Rib Knit with Eyelets

Knitting Abbreviations

Ever tried knitting and became so confused over the abbreviations that you never finished your project? Well, we now can take some of that confusion away! Here's our comprehensive list of knitting abbreviations.

And coming very soon: a video tutorial of a knitting pattern - so you can see an example in action!

New toddler sock pattern!

We've got a new toddler sock pattern for knitting in the patterns section of CyberSeams.



Check it out Here!

New Greeting Card Craft Project!

We've got a brand new greeting card project up - just in time for Mothers Day! If you've been wanting to do something creative and handmade, this project is for you! There's a free background image download which you can build your design upon.

This pattern is also great as a greeting card or gift idea for weddings, birthdays and baby showers, to name a few. Try it out and give it your own creative twist!

Check out the pattern now!

Fixed a button and new patterns coming soon!

Just a quick mention here - there was a bug in the "Add this site to your Google page" button which has been fixed. If you previously attempted to add the site and it wasn't displaying properly, please delete the old one and click on the button again to re-add the link.

If you're viewing this on the CyberSeams web site, you can add this news page to your iGoogle home page by visiting the CyberSeams blog and clicking on the "Add This Site to Your Google Page!" button on the right menu.

In other news, we've got some new patterns on their way, just in time for Mothers Day! Keep an eye out - video tutorials and printable patterns will accompany the instructions.

Hand Sewing Techniques

Hello everyone! We've got some new sewing tutorials and an article online: Sewing by Hand - Learn Basic Sewing Techniques.

This article shows you how to sew a straight stitch and a whip stitch by hand.

New! Knitting patterns are being added to the site

Greetings everyone! I have added a new category to Cyberseams - Knitting patterns! If anyone out there would like to submit one, please let me know! Of course credit will be given, and let me know if you have a web site to link to!

Here's a link to a free pattern for Knitted Baby Booties - Sizes Newborn to 6 months Enjoy!

CyberSeams Mentioned on Threadbangers

A major Thank you! to the wonderful folks at Threadbangers for mentioning CyberSeams! Threadbangers has some great weekly shows - it's all about do-it-yourself, and of course we applaud that concept wholeheartedly! If you have a chance, check them out!

And in the time being, here's one of their newest videos,
Threadheads: Knit Happens, How to knit a Pidge Scarf

More new tut's!

We've got more new tutorials uploaded today!

• Knitted Cast On


• Knitted Cast On for Left Handers


• Increase and Decrease Stitches


• Increase and Decrease Stitches for Left Handers


• Make a Slip Knot

Busy, busy, busy!! Continental Knitting and Left Handed Knitting!

Oh my goodness, so much to do! Thanks to everyone for your patience in waiting for the new tutorials. It's not so much a problem to get them on film, but the process of converting said film and then adding the instructions and the accompanying article - it can get a little hairy sometimes. So, again, thank you! I now have some new things to share!

First off, thanks to a wonderful suggestion from a viewer, CyberSeams is now providing Left Handed knitting instructions. It didn't occur to me to include those - I now can't imagine why not! Wonderful suggestion and I so hope that anyone who has been using the "but I'm left handed!" excuse will now be excuse-free and happily knitting!

We've got new tutorials on the Continental Method for knitting up and more are on the way. Here are the links to the new tut's:

How to Knit and Purl Using the Continental Method

How to Knit and Purl Left Handed Using the Continental Method

More are on the way later this week!

Whats on the cutting table this week?

So, this week is going to be another one of those marathon video weeks for CyberSeams. I get requests all the time, and LOVE it - because many times people send in ideas of things I just wouldn't come up with. It works for me: gives me ideas, and it works for them: they get to see what they're asking to see.

So, if anyone has a topic request for a tutorial that includes either sewing, knitting or a craft project (or a combination thereof) please feel free to drop us a line!

So, what's on the cutting table right now? Well, we're working on tutorials for the following subjects: Knitting using the Continental Stitch method, Knitted Cast-On, and some hand sewing techniques.

In the not-too-immediate future, we've got more sewing-clothing tutorials. Some projects are ready for filming, but with such a hectic schedule lately, I'm having a little difficulty finding time to commit to them right this moment, so I'm not willing to make a commitment for the release date. I'm hoping they will be coming out in the next 2 months though - just in time for spring!

To see our current tutorials, Click here!

I'd like to thank everyone for taking time to check out the site and offer suggestions. My whole goal is to serve YOU, so I appreciate constructive feedback and notes of encouragement! Have a great week, everyone!

New Blog!

Hello and thanks for visiting! I'm happy to announce the new CyberSeams blog! The main purpose of this is to share the weekly workings of the CyberSeams staff: what we're busy with, what's finished and what's new. It's a bit of a supplement to the Latest News on the Home Page.

So, thank you for visiting and check back with us soon!