While I am asking about what knitting resources you use I might as well plug this thread asking for knitting resources for beginners.
I have a Ravelry account I rarely use. I come here from time to time. I still have a few how to knit books I got as a child. And I have a few specific tutorials (none are video-only, they are all image + text tutorials) bookmarked online that I know I’ll need to refer back to sometime in the future:
- https://sheepandstitch.com/what-is-knitting-gauge/
- https://nourishandnestle.com/tension-in-knitting-too-loose-tight-or-inconsistent/
- https://www.yarnspirations.com/blogs/how-to/how-to-knit-cables
- https://sarahmaker.com/stockinette-stitch/
- https://smokeandslate.com/pages/weave-in-ends-stockinette-stitch
Finally, I keep the pattern I am working on written out in Obsidian (@obsidianmd@lemmy.world says hi), with a little note at the bottom describing the tension I am using and this: “Finished row x, need to start at row x + 1”. (If I wrote ‘row x’ I would have no idea if I just finished it and need to start x + 1, or if I just finished x - 1 and need to start row x. That was a serious issue for me when using just a counter that ticks up. I could just technically write ‘Finished row x’ but I feel better both writing that and ‘need to start row x + 1’.)
Archive.org has a lot of resources for knitting. You can find patterns for all levels, and also books on all kinds of techniques. As someone who dislikes video tutorials I find the Internet Archive invaluable.
As someone who also tries to avoid video as much as I can and favors text and static images, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I knew of the Internet Archive but never bothered with its search bar beyond just pasting in the URL of the webpage I wanted to see previous versions of, or the webpage I wanted backed up.
If you don’t love video, you might also look up Tech Knitting; I googled and it looks like she(?) actually has a couple of blogs with similar names. She gets really nitty gritty about stuff and makes things clear that might otherwise seem like magic made from sticks. I think it’s where I learned how to beautifully and invisibly weave ends into the backside of stockinette, among other things. (I actually don’t hate weaving in ends with that method!)