الصفحة الرئيسية > Blossary: Knitting
Basic terms all knitters need to know including knit, purl, cast on, bind off appear in every knitting pattern. These terms are essential for reading and understanding knitting patterns.

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English knitting is done with the yarn held in the dominant hand. The dominant hand begins a new stitch and throws the yarn over the needle. English knitting tends to be slower than continental ...

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

A cable is a raised pattern that crates a braided look on the knit fabric. Cables are created by placing some stitches on a holder and knitting them out of order, crossing some stitches in back or ...

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

A dropped stitch is usually a mistake in knitting, as a stitch falls off the needle and creates a ladder (run) as it drops down the rows. Sometimes, however, stitches are dropped deliberately to ...

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

Continental knitting, sometimes called German knitting, is done by holding the yarn in the non-dominant hand while the dominant hand is used to create the new stitches. It is generally faster than ...

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

Pick up stitches by inserting a needle into the area where stitches need to be created (e.g. a neckline)and put through a loop. The loop becomes a new stitch to be knit on the next round or row. ...

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

Ravelry is a social network for knitters and crocheters, enabling them to network and to share patterns and projects with one another.

Domain: Hobbies; المجال/التخصص: Knitting

Bobbles are large bumps created in a knit fabric by knitting several times into the front and back of a single stitch, then decreasing back to one stitch on a subsequent row.

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