| Did you ever enjoy texture of yarns in your | | | | for lace, while another provides a decorative |
| hand or wondering how that interesting color | | | | edging. Provisional cast on is used when the |
| pattern was created in your favorite sweater? | | | | knitting will continue in both directions |
| Then you will surely have fun learning the | | | | from the cast on. |
| art of knitting. Knitting is one of several | | | | |
| ways to turn thread or yarn into | | | | The body of a knitted piece may include plain |
| cloth-weaving and crochet. It's all about | | | | stitches or a number of colors and textured |
| creativity. | | | | patterns. The number of active stitches |
| | | | remains the same as when cast on unless |
| The Introductory Steps of Knitting | | | | stitches are added -an increase or removed- a |
| | | | decrease to shape the item. |
| Unlike woven fabric, knitted fabric consists | | | | |
| entirely of horizontal parallel courses of | | | | Patterns to Knit (Way to Online Income): |
| yarn. The courses are joined to each other by | | | | There are lots of people who sit at home and |
| interlocking loops in which a short loop of | | | | publish great knitting patters from home. |
| one course of yarn is wrapped over the bight | | | | Since over the years they have collected and |
| of another course. Knitting can be done | | | | modified many knitting patterns. They make a |
| either by hand, described below, or by | | | | great income by selling/publishing the |
| machine. What makes knitting even more | | | | patterns on the net. Once you have enough |
| exciting is the fact that this art can be | | | | practice, even you could make some online |
| easily learned. | | | | income. |
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| In practice, hand knitting is usually begun | | | | Many patterns can be made by using knit and |
| by forming a base series of twisted loops of | | | | purl stitches in various combinations. If |
| yarn on a needle. This is called Cast On. A | | | | only knits or only purls are used when |
| second knitting needle is then used to reach | | | | working back and forth in rows, the result is |
| through each loop in succession in order to | | | | called garter stitch. |
| snag a bight of yarn and pull a length back | | | | |
| through the loop. This forms a new stitch. | | | | Alternating rows of knits and purls result in |
| Work can proceed in the round (circular | | | | stockinette stitch, also known as stocking or |
| knitting) or by going back and forth in rows. | | | | jersey stitch, the stitch most often used in |
| Knitting can also be done by machines, which | | | | commercial garments such as T-shirts. |
| use a different mechanical system to produce | | | | Different combinations of stitches can be |
| nearly identical results. | | | | used to form ribbing, cables, or other |
| | | | textures. |
| Knitting Styles: There are two basic styles | | | | |
| of knitting; English and Continental. The | | | | Once the knitted piece is finished, the |
| difference between the two is in how you hold | | | | remaining live stitches are cast off. Casting |
| the yarn. In the English method the yarn is | | | | or binding off loops the stitches across each |
| held in the right hand. In continental | | | | other so they can be removed from the needle |
| knitting, the yarn is held in the left hand. | | | | without unraveling the item. Although the |
| Whatever your natural hand-preference, you | | | | mechanics are different from casting on, |
| should be able to master either method | | | | there are a similar variety of methods and |
| because the nature of knitting is basically | | | | choices to be made. Of the various methods |
| ambidextrous. | | | | the most versatile are the Plain Bind-off and |
| | | | the Suspended Bind-off. |
| The two basic stitches are knit or plain and | | | | |
| purl or wrong. These two nominal stitches are | | | | Knitted garments are most commonly made in |
| actually identical, however, being the | | | | pieces, where individual sections of the |
| obverse and reverse of the same stitch. It is | | | | garment are knit separately and then sewn |
| the variations and combinations of these two | | | | together once all the pieces have been |
| stitches that create all the different stitch | | | | completed. Seamless knitting, where a whole |
| patterns which are possible in knitting. | | | | garment is knit as a single piece is also |
| Typically, a knit stitch is formed by | | | | possible. Smaller items, such as socks and |
| inserting the needle in the front of the loop | | | | hats are usually knit in one piece on double |
| from a left-to-right perspective and pulling | | | | pointed needles. |
| a loop of yarn through to form a new loop, | | | | |
| while a purl stitch is formed by inserting | | | | Knitting can be easily learned these days as |
| the needle in the front of the loop from a | | | | there are many websites on knitting and also |
| right-to-left perspective. | | | | various books for beginners available on the |
| | | | market, where you can find step by step |
| A piece of knitting begins with the process | | | | instructions. These instructions are so easy |
| of casting on, which involves the initial | | | | to follow that even kids would not find them |
| creation of the stitches on the needle. | | | | difficult at all. Show your creativity, grab |
| Casting on is the first step in knitting | | | | your knitting tools and learn to knit today! |
| These stitches become the first row of | | | | |
| stitches and one selvage of your work, | | | | Do you want to learn how to knit? For more |
| usually the bottom or hem. | | | | articles on knitting and crochet, go to the |
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| Different methods of cast on are used for | | | | resources and other items usefull for |
| different effects; one may be stretchy enough | | | | knitters. |