Stretchy Bindoff

Use Elizabeth Zimmerman’s stretchy bind off if you end up with necks being too tight after binding off the stitches for bottom-up sweaters, socks, etc. After you finish the row, cut the yarn so it’s about 3 times the length of the edge you have to bind off. Thread on a darning needle. Then sew forward (to the left) through two stitches, and back (right) through only the right-most of the two stitches. Slip the right-most stitch off the needle and continue. Forward two, back one, drop, forward two, back one, drop, etc. If you are knitting in the round and want to use this bind off, slip the first stitch to the right needle and make it the last stitch for an even finish.

To watch a video of how it’s done, use the link in the title.

Garter Stitch in the Round

Garter stitch, which is so easy to do when you're knitting flat, is kind of a pain when knitting in the round! This is because you have to alternate knitting one round with purling one round to make up for the fact that you're not turning your work. If you feel up to the challenge, you can do a wrap and turn at the end of each round, and go back the other way, still knitting, which creates kind of a "cheater's" garter stitch.

I-Cord

Using the I-cord technique would work in any knit-in-the-round situation where you have less than 10 stitches – as in reducing stitches for a hat, or making strings, ties, or toy parts (dread locks, squid legs, etc).

To make I-cord place all stitches on one double-point needle, knit across all stitches. Instead of turning your work, simply slide the stitches all the way to the right end of the needle and continue knitting. It’s a little confusing at first because the yarn for the first stitch is attached to the opposite end of the work, but what you will find is that the yarn that is running from one end to the other is actually pulling the work into a stockinette stitch tube. Really cool.

This page has a video demo of how I-cord is made and also how you can apply it to an edge as a bind off (bonus!)
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-tips

Picking Up Stitches Evenly

Sometimes it’s challenging to pick up a specific number of stitches over a span of work. If you have issues with having too many or too few stitches, try this. Fold the side where you are to pick up the stitches in half and mark the fold, then fold the work in half again and mark the two resulting folds. Now your work is divided into 4 even sections. Divide the number of stitches to pick up by 4 and pick up that number in each section.