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2. Casting on (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Bring the needle in front of the thumb, under both yarns around the thumb, down into the center of the thumb loop, back forward, and over the top of the yarn around the index finger. Use the needle to catch this yarn, then bring the needle back down through the thumb loop, turning the thumb slightly to make room for the needle to pass through.

3. Fair Isle (technique) - Wikipedia

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   Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour. [1]

4. Welting (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   If the fabric is being knit back-and-forth, turned after every row, the effect is produced even more simply by knitting each row—first from the right side, then from the wrong side. Similar to ribbing , a welting pattern can be specified by the number of knit rows followed by the number of purl rows, e.g., 1x1 welting is garter stitch.

5. List of knitting stitches - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Short row (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   The stitches to be bound off can be "held in reserve" on the knitting needles without being knitted using short rows. At the end, all the stitches can be bound off at once, producing a more continuous edge without the typical "ladder" of decreases. References. Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla A. (2004). Knitting in the Old Way. Colorado: Nomad Press.

7. Category:Knitting methods for shaping - Wikipedia

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   This category is used to gather knitting techniques that shape the material, either by defining its boundaries, by altering its grain or by giving it positive curvature (cupping) or negative curvature (frilling).

8. Slip-stitch knitting - Wikipedia

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   The second (return) row repeats the slip/knit choices of the first row, effectively giving double height. (Note that, on the return row, the stitches are slipped wyif, since the fabric is being knitted from the wrong side.) The knitter then takes up the white yarn and knits two rows, across and back.

9. Gather (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Gathers knit into a pullover sweater using stitch decreases.. In knitting, a gather draws stitches closer together within a row of knitting. Common methods include: In binding, a yarn loop is passed over 2 or more stitches in the same row (usually adjacent to the binding loop); also known as a pullover stitch.