Knitting

• Interlocking yarn loops to create a fabric

• Hand (weft) or machine (warp)

• Can be changed by using different coloured yarn, needle size or stitching

Knitting

Hand knitting stitches The Knit StitchWhen working knit stitches, the yarn coming off the skein is behind the needles. Knit stitches are made by inserting the needle in your right hand through a stitch on the needle in your left hand. When making a knit stitch, the right needle enters the stitch from the left front and comes out on the right back. You wrap the yarn around the inserted right needle counter clockwise, pull the wrapped yarn through the stitch and onto the right needle, then drop the worked stitch off the left needle.

The Purl StitchWhen working purl stitches, the yarn coming off the skein is in front of the needles. You insert the right needle into the stitch on the left needle through the front of the stitch, from right to left. After wrapping the yarn around the right needle counterclockwise, you push the right needle back through the stitch to complete the purl. The wrap stays on the right needle and you drop the purled stitch off the left needle.

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Hand knitting patterns

• Garter stitch (knit)

• Seed/moss stitch (Knit 1, purl 1)

• Stockinette stitch (row 1 knit, row 2 purl)

• Reverse stockinette stitch (row 1 purl, row 2 knit)

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJQvsZ6kT0

Cast On

Knit / Garter Stitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4kSztvq-vI

Purl Stitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkb0YyrzPWA

Casting Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMAUORm-GK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6k16Zfajfw

Key index SK2P slip 1, knit 2 together, pass slip stitch over the knit 2 together

sl slip

sl-k slip 1 stitch knitwise

sl-p slip 1 stitch purlwise

sl st slip stitch

sm slip marker

ssk slip, slip, knit

ssp slip, slip, purl

st(s) stitch(es)

St st Stockinette stitch

thru through

tbl through back loop

tog together

W&T wrap and turn (for working short rows)

WS wrong side

wyib with yarn in back

wyif with yarn in front

yb yarn back

yf yarn forward

yd(s) yards

yo yarn over needle

* repeat instructions following * as many times as necessary or until the end of the row

[ ] repeat instructions within brackets as many times as indicated

M1-L make 1 LEFT: make 1 st by knitting into the LEFT strand of the st 2 rows below the stitch just knit

M1-R make 1 RIGHT: make 1 st by knitting into the RIGHT strand of the st 1 row below the next stitch

m meters

MC main color

mult multiple

oz(s) ounces

p purl

p1-b purl 1 stitch through back loop

p2tog purl 2 stitches together

p2tog tbl OR p2tog-b purl 2 stitches together through back loop

patt or pat pattern

p-inc or PFB inc 1 by purling into the front and back loops of next stitch

pm place marker

psso pass slipped stitch over

rem remains, remaining

rep repeat

RH right-hand

RS right side

rnd round

sk skip

SKP slip 1, knit 1, pass slip stitch over

approx approximatelybeg begin, beginningbo bind offCC contrasting colourch chain

cm(s) centimetre(s)cn cable needleco cast on

cont continue, continuingdec decrease, decreasingdpn double-pointed needlesfoll followingg grams

inc increase, increasingk knit

k1-b or k1-tbl knit 1 stitch through back loop

k2tog knit 2 stitches togetherk2tog-tbl OR

k2tog-bknit 2 stitches together through

back loop

k-inc or KFB

inc 1 by knitting into the front and back loops of next stitch

LH left-handlp(s) loop(s)m1 make 1 stitch