enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of knitting stitches - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knitting_stitches

   A raised increase, knitting into row below (k-b, k 1 b) A lifted increase, knitting into the yarn between the stitches (inc, m1) Knit front and back (kfb) Purl front and back (, pass slipped stitch over (S1, K1, PSSO) for a left-leaning decrease. Knit two together through the back loops (K2tog tbl) for a left-leaning decrease.

3. Yarn weight - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_weight

   Knitting a test swatch requires knitting the yarn into a small, roughly 4 in (10 cm) square textile of even stitches. [4] Comparing this with recommended needle sizes, yarn, and the knitter's own signature tension, allows for adjustments to all of these things.

4. Knitted fabric - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitted_fabric

   When knit wales cross, a cable is formed. Cables patterns tend to draw the fabric together, making it denser and less elastic; [5] Aran sweaters are a common form of knitted cabling. [6] Arbitrarily complex braid patterns can be done in cable knitting. In lace knitting, a pattern is formed by making small, stable holes in the fabric.

5. Hand knitting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_knitting

   Yarn companies offer free knitting patterns for these caps. The US-based charity Sheep Dreamzzz trains women in Nicaragua to knit baby blankets. They receive all of the profits. Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America. The blankets are all hand-knitted and the women work inside a home.

6. Elizabeth Zimmermann - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Zimmermann

   Elizabeth Zimmermann (9 August 1910 – 30 November 1999) was a British-born hand knitting teacher and designer. She revolutionized the modern practice of knitting through her books and instructional series on American public television.

7. Women's Home Industries - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Home_Industries

   An archive for Women's Home Industries, including knitting patterns, garments and sample books is held in the University of the Arts' London College of Fashion archive. [ 24 ] The Victoria and Albert Museum has several items by Women's Home Industries, including a 1950s Beatrice Bellini sweater that so impressed the couturier Edward Molyneux ...