what does block lightly mean in knitting?
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Blocking is the process of wetting or steaming your final pieces of knitting to set the finished size and even out the stitches. You could use any flat surface to block your garments (I'm partial to the Knitter's Block), just be sure that your knitted piece lies flat and fully dries so that its shape sets.
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Negative ease means that your finished garment is smaller than your actual bust measurement. Because knitted fabric stretches, a few inches of negative ease won't mean that you can't get your sweater over your head (unless your neck is much too small!). Negative ease will allow for a much more fitted look.
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Grab some bulky weight yarn to create a pair of cozy mittens. Available in 4 sizes, these mittens are knitted flat on two needles. ... Knit yours in bulky weight yarn or holding two strands of worsted weight yarn. So Simple Knitted Mittens is a free knitting pattern from Better Homes & Gardens.
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Knitting is usually intermeshing of one or more loops of yarns in preceding and succeeding rows. On the other hand, weaving is interlacing of yarns at right angles to make a fabric structure. Each yarn is called either a warp (vertical) or a weft (horizontal).
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In knitting, casting on is a family of techniques for adding new stitches that do not depend on earlier stitches, i.e., having an independent lower edge. ... When casting on at the beginning, one end of the yarn must be secured to the knitting needle by knotting it, usually with a slip knot.
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It means do something to stop them from fraying. Usually this means sewing a zigzag stitch over the edge, or overlocking/serging them.
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Short Rows are used to create triangles or wedges within your knitting. They shape everything from bust darts to ear flaps. Basically, a Short Row is just that: a row that you don't knit to the end of the needle.
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Yarn weight refers to the thickness of the yarn. It's a range, from super fine to super bulky. ... The higher the number, the heavier the yarn and the fewer stitches per inch you will get but ply doesn't always correlate to the weight of a particular yarn.
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Enjoy! SSK = short for slip, slip, knit, meaning that you slip 1 st, slip the next, then put left needle back into the slipped sts and knit them together. This will create a decrease leaning to the left.
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To bind off or cast off knitting, you secure the stitches in the last row worked so they don't unravel. Binding off and casting off knitting is also called finishing the edge.
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The squares that are not required in a particular row are “no stitch” squares. They are usually filled with a darker color than the rest of the chart, and can be ignored as you work the row.
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salmonmac August 23, 2016, 2:51pm #2. Since this is a sleeve, you may have been periodically increasing at the sides after knitting the cuff. Continue even means with no shaping, so no increases or decreases, just continue in stockinette. When it says total length, it usually means from the cast on edge.
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You're doing a YO between a knit and a purl stitch, and to do that you bring the yarn to the front (yfwd), then up and over around the needle to the front again (yrn). This will give you the YO when you p the next 2 together. Here is a video from this site.
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Wrap and turn (sometimes abbreviated as w&t) in knitting involves wrapping stitches with the working yarn, turning the work, then coming back to the wrapped stitches later. The wrap and turn works for anything from making basic sock heels to shaping a shawl.
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kfb: Knit into the front and back of a stitch, an increase. kll: Knit left loop; an increase. krl: Knit right loop; an increase.
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yo would mean that you bring the yarn over the needle to the front than back under the needle to the back before you insert the needle to make the next stitch. yfwd would mean that you bring the yarn UNDER the needle to the front than over the needle to the back before you insert the needle.
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Brk1: Knit the stitch that was slipped in the previous row together with its yarnover (Figure 2). Because the yarnover wasn't counted as a separate stitch on the previous row, no real decrease is made. To begin, loosely cast on an uneven number of stitches.