Teach Yourself Visually Knitting

After you complete a short row, you need to hide your wraps so that your work looks tidy. HIDING SHORT-ROW WRAPS ON THE KNIT SID ...

Correcting Mistakes Has a mysterious hole appeared in your knitting? Or do you have fewer stitches on your needle than you shoul ...

Correct Twisted Stitches.................................. 66 Correct Incomplete Stitches............................... 67 Pick ...

Sometimes stitches become twisted, resulting in an uneven finish to the knit fabric. To recognize the problem, you need to famil ...

Correcting Mistakes chapter 5 A stitch is incompletewhen the working yarn does not get pulled through the loop. The stitch gets ...

You have probably dropped a stitch or two by now. A dropped stitchis a stitch that has slipped off your needles. Dropped stitche ...

1 Work across the stitches on the left needle until you get to the dropped stitch. 2 Insert the right needle into the dropped st ...

2 Insert the crochet hook from front to back into the dropped stitch. Pull the lowest horizontal ladder from back to front throu ...

An edge stitch that has been dropped and let run for several rows has a different appearance from a run down the interior of a p ...

If you make an error that can’t be fixed by using any of the previous methods, you probably need to unravel some of your work. F ...

If you make an error that is more than one row down from where you are cur- rently working, you need to unravel row by row. 1 Sl ...

Learning to Read Written Instructions By now you’ve probably looked at some knitting pattern books or leaflets and thought, “Is ...

Getting to Know Gauge.................................. 76 Make and Measure a Gauge Swatch....................... 78 Knitting Ab ...

When you’re ready to knit something where size and fit are crucial, you need to understand gauge. Gauge(referred to as tensionin ...

Learning to Read Written Instructions chapter 6 Sometimes a knitting pattern will cite the gauge for a particular stitch pattern ...

Before starting a project, you should always make a gauge swatch to ensure that you are knitting to the gauge the pattern calls ...

Remember the stitch and needle gauge tool from Chapter 1? Now is the time to use it. If you don’t have one, you can use a ruler ...

The more you knit, the more familiar knitting language will become. You’ve probably looked at knitting instructions and wondered ...

Abbreviation Meaning opp opposite oz ounce p purl p1b purl into back of stitch p2sso pass 2 slipped stitches over p2tog purl 2 s ...

KNITTING TERMS A as established Work in a particular pattern, as previously set. as foll Work as the instructions direct below. ...