Category: Arts
Created by: kschimmel
Number of Blossarys: 8
Circular knitting is done on circular or double-pointed needles. Knitting proceeds in rounds rather than rows, so the right side of the work is always facing the knitter. A flat knitting pattern must ...
Condo knitting is done with one large and one small needle. Some manufacturers offer a circular needle with one large tip and one small tip for condo knitting.
Continental knitting, sometimes called German knitting, is done by holding the yarn in the non-dominant hand while the dominant hand is used to create the new stitches. It is generally faster than ...
Reduce the number of stitches in a row of knitting by working two stitches together as one, slipping a stitch and passing it over the next stitch, or casting off at beginning of row.
A dropped stitch is usually a mistake in knitting, as a stitch falls off the needle and creates a ladder (run) as it drops down the rows. Sometimes, however, stitches are dropped deliberately to ...
Duplicate stitch is embroidery worked on top of knitted fabric using yarn to copy knit stitches and cover them with a different color. The resulting pattern looks like it was knitted into the fabric.
To frog is to unravel knitting ("rip-it, rip-it") in order to crrect a mistake or reuse yarn.
By: kschimmel