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Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. [ 3 ] Ravelry has been mentioned by Tim Bray as one "of the world’s more successful deployments of Ruby on Rails technologies."
Intricate relief patterns are characteristic of the technique. Twined knitting produces a firmer and more durable fabric with greater thermal insulation than conventional one-end knitting. [ 2 ] The technique has historically been used to knit mittens, gloves, socks, stockings, caps and sleeves for waistcoats.
Thrumming is a technique in which small pieces of wool or yarn (thrums) are pulled through fabric to create a wooly layer.The term thrum originally referred specifically to worthless pieces of warp thread which remained after weaving a piece of fabric using a loom, though its meaning has since broadened to include any small pieces of wool or thread which are used in a similar way.
Crochet hooks used for Tunisian crochet are elongated and have a stopper at the end of the handle, while double-ended crochet hooks have a hook on both ends of the handle. Tunisian crochet hooks are shaped without a fat thumb grip and thus can hold many loops on the hook at a time without stretching some to different heights than others (Solovan).
Photograph Schematic U.S. term U.K. term Turning chain slip stitch slip stitch / single crochet N/A chain stitch chain stitch N/A single crochet
The loops may appear singly or in large clusters. An overall array of such loops may be used to give a "shaggy" look to the fabric and/or make it warmer, e.g., tufting the inside of mittens. After they're made, the loops may be cut or left intact; two adjacent loops tied together in a bow-knot is an attractive pattern as well.
Simply the crochet chain cast-on using waste yarn; this is also an "invisible cast-on" that can be pulled out later to allow knitting in the opposite direction. Work a crochet chain in waste yarn, loosely fastening the tail end. With working yarn, pick up the chain-bumps, as for the crochet chain cast-on, to create the working stitches.
In Norway, the pattern was already in use prior to 1857 on sweaters from Western Norway based on Danish designs. [ 1 ] Marit Guldsetbrua Emstad (born 1841), [ 2 ] a girl from Selbu, popularized the design in 1857 when she knitted three pairs of mittens with an eight-petalled rose design ( åttebladrose ) and brought them to church.