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2. Cowichan knitting - Wikipedia

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   Thunderbird Design. Cowichan knitting is a form of knitting characteristic of the Cowichan people of southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.The distinctively patterned, heavy-knit Cowichan sweaters, popular among British Columbians and tourists, are produced using this method.

3. Crochet - Wikipedia

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   Round or cylindrical patterns are simple to produce with a regular crochet hook, but cylindrical knitting requires either a set of circular needles or three to five special double-ended needles. Many crocheted items are composed of individual motifs which are then joined, either by sewing or crocheting, whereas knitting is usually composed of ...

4. Casting on (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   Prayer shawls, or shawls in which the crafter meditates or says prayers of their faith while hand knitting with the intent on comforting the recipient, are donated to those experiencing loss or stress. Many knitters today hand knit and donate "chemo caps", soft caps for cancer patients who lose their hair during chemotherapy. Yarn companies ...

6. Nålebinding - Wikipedia

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   Fabric is commonly worked in a single direction – "in the round" – forming spirals and tubes for socks and mittens. The work may also be turned at the end of a row for fabric "worked flat". Crafters nowadays often use a specialised notation called the Hansen code to create patterns and communicate about the nålebinding technique.

7. Tatting - Wikipedia

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   Cro-tatting combines needle tatting with crochet. The cro-tatting tool is a tatting needle with a crochet hook at the end. One can also cro-tat with a bullion crochet hook or a very straight crochet hook. In the 19th century, "crochet tatting" patterns were published which simply called for a crochet hook.

8. Illusion knitting - Wikipedia

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   To follow this pattern, a knitter would use black and white: white being the background color (BC), and black being the master color (MC). Start at row one. This could be thought of as Row 1-1 and is a right-side row (RS). Row 1-1 (RS): With BC, knit. Row 1-2 (still following the pattern at row 1) (WS): Knit the blank boxes, purl the ones ...

9. Slip-stitch knitting - Wikipedia

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   In the basic slip stitch, the stitch is passed from the left needle to the right needle without being knitted. The yarn may be passed invisibly behind the slipped stitch (wyib="with yarn in back") or in front of the slipped stitch (wyif="with yarn in front"), where it produces a small horizontal "bar".