I must be pretty lazy, because I HATE flipping over my knitting to do the purl side when I’m knitting flat! I’ve always wanted to learn to knit backwards so I can just keep the knit side facing me! Here’s a great tutorial on knitty.com that goes over how to do just that – includes instructions for those who knit continental AND english style!

{image | Martha Stewart}

OK – this isn’t the BEST tutorial in the world – there’s a lot of handstitching involved, but for a knitter, this would be a quick, cute knit and a fun way to use up little bits of yarn from other projects! I plan on making some little bags like these (probably not knitted, though) for some of my gifts. They are a super-useful size and I use the ones left over from class samples ALL the time! The tutorial can be found here.