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Knitting with the yarn in one's left hand is commonly referred to as Continental knitting, German knitting, European knitting, or left-hand knitting. Unlike English knitting, the yarn is held in the left hand. This allows advanced knitters to scoop the working yarn through without wrapping it around the needle first.
If the yarn is sitting behind the right needle (away from the knitter), it should first be moved between the needles to the front. We will make one purl stitch---which looks like the back of a knit stitch---into the first loop on the left needle. The right needle is inserted into the right side of that loop.
Knitting abbreviations can be grouped by what they describe: side of work; RS and WS signify the "right side" and "wrong side" of the work.. type of stitch; k means a knit stitch (passing through the previous loop from below) and p means a purl stitch (passing through the previous loop from above).
Yarn for hand-knitting is usually sold as balls or skeins (hanks), and it may also be wound on spools or cones. Skeins and balls are generally sold with a yarn-band, a label that describes the yarn's weight, length, dye lot, fiber content, washing instructions, suggested needle size, likely gauge/tension, etc. It is common practice to save the ...
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, 2005, ISBN 0740750372; At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much, 2005, ISBN 1580175899; Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks, 2006, ISBN 1580178340; Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting, 2007, ISBN 9781580176583
Purfling is a narrow decorative edge inlaid into the top plate and often the back plate of a stringed instrument.Purfling was originally made of laminated strips of wood, often contrasting in color as a visual accent.
The term is also used for a set of yarns established before the interworking of weft yarns by some other method, such as finger manipulation, yielding wrapped or twined structures. Very simple looms use a spiral warp , in which the warp is made up of a single, very long yarn wound in a spiral pattern around a pair of sticks or beams.
A purlin (or historically purline, purloyne, purling, perling) is a longitudinal, horizontal, structural member in a roof. In traditional timber framing there are three basic types of purlin: purlin plate, principal purlin, and common purlin. Purlins also appear in steel frame construction. Steel purlins may be painted or greased for protection ...