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2. Fair Isle (technique) - Wikipedia

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   Fair Isle (technique) Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921.

3. Cable knitting - Wikipedia

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   A vast variety of cable patterns can be invented by changing the number of cables, the separations of their center lines, the amplitudes of their waves (i.e., how far they wander from their center line), the shape of the waves (e.g., sinusoidal versus triangular), and the relative position of the crests and troughs of each wave (e.g., one wave ...

4. Double knitting - Wikipedia

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   Double knit fabric is a fabric where both sides of the fabric are identical, for example, Interlock and Rib.These fabrics are knitted with two sets of needles on the circular knitting machine that form a material with the same face and back, unlike a single knitted fabric, [1] for instance, a single jersey that has a different appearance on the front and back.

5. List of knitting stitches - Wikipedia

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   Dip stitch which can be either. 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 ...

6. Brioche knitting - Wikipedia

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   The brioche-purl stitch (or the "burp" stitch (abbreviated "brp") is the purled version. Each bark or burp stitch is followed by a yarn-front, slip-one, yarnover (yf-sl1yo). This sets up the bark and burp stitches for the next row. In brioche knitting, it takes two "passes" to complete a single row of knitting, since only half the stitches are ...

7. Short row (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Short row (knitting) A ribbed scarf hand-knit with a pattern that uses short rows. In knitting, a short row is a row that is not fully knitted; the work is turned before reaching the end of the row. When working short rows, technique must be employed to prevent holes or gaps where the work is turned. There are several ways to do this.

8. Intarsia (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Intarsia is a knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. As with the woodworking technique of the same name, fields of different colours and materials appear to be inlaid in one another, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Unlike other multicolour techniques (including Fair Isle, slip-stitch colour, and double knitting ...

9. Grafting (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   In knitting, grafting is the joining of two knitted fabrics using yarn and a needle in one of three types of seams: end-to-end ("wale-to-wale") seam. The Kitchener stitch is a common method for the third type of seam. The yarn follows the route of a row of ordinary knitting. This is often done when closing off a knitted sock at the toe.