Category: Arts
Created by: kschimmel
Number of Blossarys: 8
Lay working yarn over right needle from front to back. Proceed with knitting row. On next row, knit or purl the yarn over like any other stitch. Yarn overs are used to create holes in lace.
Another term for "frog" meaning to rip the knitted work back to correct a mistake. Tink comes from the word "knit" spelled backwards.
This stitch pattern is created by knitting all stitches on the right side of work and purling all stitches on the back side. Old patterns also call this "plain knitting."
Move a stitch from the left to the right needle without working it. Stitches may be slipped knitwise (insert needle as if to knit) or purlwise (insert needle as if to purl.)
In flat knitting, a short row is created by turning the work before reaching the end of a row. Short rows make one side of the work longer than the other, useful for creating shaped curves in a flat ...
Seed stitch is a textured pattern created by alternating knit and purl stitches (knit 1, purl 1) over an odd number of stitches so that knits and purls create alternating bumps (seeds) in an alloever ...
Ribbing is a stretchy fabric created by alternating knit and purl stitches so that vertical lines of like stitches are created. There are different patterns, the most common being knit 1, purl 1 or ...
By: kschimmel