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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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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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A cable is a raised pattern that crates a braided look on the knit fabric. Cables are created by placing some stitches on a holder and knitting them out of order, crossing some stitches in back or ...

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English knitting is done with the yarn held in the dominant hand. The dominant hand begins a new stitch and throws the yarn over the needle. English knitting tends to be slower than continental ...

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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.

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Seed stitch is a textured pattern created by alternating knit and purl stitches (knit 1, purl 1) over an odd number of stitches so that knits and purls create alternating bumps (seeds) in an alloever ...

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A knitting gauge is a small ruler with a slide used for measuring gauge in stitches per inch. Knowing stitches per inch helps knitters create garments to desired dimensions.

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Circular knitting is done on circular or double-pointed needles. Knitting proceeds in rounds rather than rows, so the right side of the work is always facing the knitter. A flat knitting pattern must ...

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