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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.
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 ...
Lion Brand Yarns, also known as Lion Brand Yarn Company and Lion Brand Yarn, was founded in 1878 in the United States.It is the oldest producer of knitting and craft yarn in the United States, and also publishes several knitting and crochet newsletters.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting, 2007, ISBN 9781580176583; Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted To or Not), 2008, ISBN 9781603420624; Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again, 2008, ISBN 0740769472; All Wound Up, 2011, ISBN 0740797573
Madonna Knitting, by Bertram of Minden 1400-1410 1855 sketch of a shepherd knitting, while watching his flock The Knitting Woman by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869. Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to pull and loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric.
In the Power-Heat-Set process yarn is heat set with superheated steam in an open system at atmospheric pressure. All the materials normally used in the carpet industry such as polyamide 6, polyamide 6.6, polypropylene, Acrylic, PET, polyester and wool can be processed. The unprocessed yarn is provided on packages in a creel (up to 72 packages).
Huacaya fiber grows and looks similar to sheep wool in that the animal looks "fluffy". The second type of alpaca is Suri and makes up less than 10% of the South American alpaca population. Suri fiber is more similar to natural silk and hangs off the body in locks that have a dreadlock appearance. [1]