enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Circular knitting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_knitting

   Originally, circular knitting was done using a set of four or five double-pointed needles. Today, knitters often use instead a circular needle, which resembles a pair of short knitting needles connected by a cable between them. Circular knitting can also be performed by knitting machines: a double-bed machine can be set up to knit on its front ...

3. Knitting needle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting_needle

   Numerous techniques have been devised for the production of narrow tubular knitting on circular needles. One common method is to use two needles in place of the four or five double-pointed needles traditionally used, while a newer technique is to use one circular needle that is significantly longer than the circumference of the item being knitted.

4. Hand knitting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_knitting

   Originally, circular knitting was done using a set of four or five double-pointed knitting needles. Circular needles were later invented making this type of knitting easier. A circular needle resembles two short knitting needles connected by a cable of varying length between them. A circular knitting needle with a long cable can be used in ...

5. Knitting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting

   Circular needles are typically 24-60 inches long, and are usually used singly or in pairs; again, the width of the knitted piece may be significantly longer than the length of the circular needle. Interchangeable needles are a subset of circular needles. They are kits consist of pairs of needles with usually nylon cables or cords.

6. Casting on (knitting) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_on_(knitting)

   To execute, hold a knitting needle in left hand and crochet hook or second knitting needle in right hand. Make a slip-knot in yarn and put it on the crochet hook or right-hand needle. Wrap the yarn from the back of the left-hand needle and over to the front, over the crochet hook or right needle, pass the slip-knot loop over the wrap, leaving ...

7. Elizabeth Zimmermann - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Zimmermann

   According to her posthumously published book The Opinionated Knitter, a yarn-company editor altered Zimmermann's circular knitting instructions for a Fair Isle Yoke pullover after she submitted the sweater, rendering it in the back-and-forth "flat" knitting method that was more popular among American knitters at the time.