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Basic terms all knitters need to know including knit, purl, cast on, bind off appear in every knitting pattern. These terms are essential for reading and understanding knitting patterns.

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Make an additional stitch in a row of knitting by placing a loop over the needle, working twice into one stitch, or casting on at the end of a row.

Domain: Hobbies; Category: Knitting

This is the name of the pattern created by knitting every single stitch, i.e. on the front and on the back. It is durable, does not curl at the edges and is unbeatable when you like to knit while ...

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Two rows of garter stitch (knit every stitch, wrong side and right side) interlock to form a garter ridge. While rows are counted for other knitting patterns, garter stitch is often counted in ...

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To frog is to unravel knitting ("rip-it, rip-it") in order to crrect a mistake or reuse yarn.

Domain: Hobbies; Category: Knitting

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.

Domain: Hobbies; Category: Knitting

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 ...

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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.

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