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2. Binding off - Wikipedia

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   For this bind/cast off, the two needles (in the case of a sweater, each may hold the shoulder stitches) are held parallel with the right sides of the knitting facing each other. Binding/casting off as with the knit bind/cast off, each stitch is the result of knitting together one stitch from each needle (i.e. pass needle through first stitch of ...

3. Three needle bindoff - Wikipedia

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   A piece of excess yarn is wrapped around, and the stitch is knitted. The resulting stitch remains on the third needle. For the next stitch, a stitch from needle B is moved to needle A, and the step is repeated, with the resulting stitch moved to needle C. On needle C, the second stitch is lifted above the first stitch and off the needle.

4. Decrease (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   The key to making this stitch work is to pull excess yarn from the second stitch before letting it drop off the needle. [ 1 ] SSK ("slip, slip, knit") – Work to the two stitches to be decreased, slip two stitches one at a time to the right-hand needle, as if to knit; insert the left-hand needle into the two stitches from front to back, knit ...

5. Follow These Step-by-Step Instructions to Knit Your Very Own ...

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   Slide off a stitch from the left-hand needle. Repeat these steps until you reach the end of the row. Next row: Turn your work around, so that the needle with the stitches is in your left hand and ...

6. List of knitting stitches - Wikipedia

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   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-leaning decrease.

7. Buttonhole (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Two-row buttonhole (horizontal) -- Bind off an appropriate number of stitches and cast them back on in the next row. The yarn is usually woven into the bound off stitches, for reinforcement. One-row buttonhole (horizontal) -- Work to where you want the buttonhole to be. Slip next stitch, move yarn to the back of work, slip second stitch, pass ...

8. Hand knitting - Wikipedia

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   A key factor in knitting is stitch definition, corresponding to how well complicated stitch patterns can be seen when made from a given yarn. Smooth, highly spun yarns are best for showing off stitch patterns; at the other extreme, very fuzzy yarns or eyelash yarns have poor stitch definition, and any complicated stitch pattern would be invisible.

9. Elizabeth Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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   According to her posthumously published book The Opinionated Knitter, a yarn-company editor altered Zimmermann's circular knitting instructions for a Fair Isle Yoke pullover after she submitted the sweater, rendering it in the back-and-forth "flat" knitting method that was more popular among American knitters at the time.