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Knitting Stitches: Slip-Stitch Knitting, Basic Knitted Fabrics, Fair Isle, Decrease, Plaited Stitch, Yarn Over, Drop-Stitch Knitting
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-28.
ISBN 9781157108795
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Slip-Stitch Knitting, Basic Knitted Fabrics, Fair Isle, Decrease, Plaited Stitch, Yarn Over, Drop-Stitch Knitting, Loop Knitting, List of Knitting Stitches, Dip Stitch, Grafting, Pick up Stitches, Elongated Stitch. Excerpt: Slip-stitch knitting is a family of knitting techniques that use slip stitches to make multiple fabrics simultaneously, to make extra-long stitches, and/or to carry over colors from an earlier row. 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". The wyif slipped stitch is less common, although several knitting patterns use it to produce a visual effect like woven cloth. Alternatively, the yarn can be "tucked", i.e., made into a yarn-over that is knitted together with the slipped stitch on the next row; like the simpler wyib, this is invisible. If knitted on the next row, the wyib slipped stitch is twice as tall as its neighboring stitches. A vertical column of such "double-height" stitches is a nice accent, e.g., on a scarf or in a sweater, particularly in a contrasting color. Slip stitches may be used for an easier method of double knitting that requires only one yarn be handled at one time. As a concrete example, consider a two-color pattern with a multiple of four stitches (labeled ABCD) being knit on double-pointed circular needles. On the first row, using color 1, stitch A is knitted, stitch B is purled, stitch C is slipped wyib and stitch D is slipped wyif. The knitter then slides the stitches back to the beginning (recall that the needles are double-pointed). The... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4961265
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