I assumed that you are not knitting a sock as your very first knitting project and know how to increase, decrease, slip a stitch, knit and purl. There isn’t much else to knitting a sock, other than keeping track of the number of stitches on your...
Turn your work and purl in each stitch across the row. Step 4 Turn your work again and increase in each stitch across the row by knitting into the front and back of each stitch. To knit front and back, knit into the first stitch as you normally would to create a knit stitch but do...
12 Create the neck back at the edge. On every other row bind off two stitches, then one stitch, then all remaining stitches to create the shoulder. 13 Create the first row. Knit one stitch, purl one stitch, and repeat for the rest of the row. 14 Increase by one stitch for the next...
For our purposes we need paired increase and decrease rows that alternate with plain knitting -- also known as Lace Knitting -- requiring that the action happen every other row. To make the graph work for our purpose, a rest row of purls is inserted between the working rows as seen in ...
The first thing to know about reading a knitting chart is that each square in the chart represents a stitch. The color of each square or the symbol inside it indicates how to work that stitch, whether a particular increase or decrease, a yarn over, a cable stitch, or a color change. ...
each one knits. When you get to the end of the row, you don’t turn the work-you just run the carriage back the other way. This means you produce stockinette stitch without ever turning the work or making a purl stitch. The carriage and needles just make the knit stitch over and ove...
The first brioche round is worked as (sl1yo, brp). Bring the yarn to the front and slip a stitch, then bring the working yarn over the right needle and back to the front between the needles. Work a brioche purl (brp) by purling into both the yarn over and stitch as one. ...
to the nearest multiple of 4 to know how many stitches to cast on. A new knitter working through this pattern will learn how to figure gauge and why it's important, how to use double pointed needles, how to knit and purl in-the-round, increase, decrease and how to customize gloves ...
To count garter stitches, instead of “V”s, count the purl bumps or little “frowns” over a four-inch span. For row counts, patterns in garter stitch may specify gauge in “rows” or “ridges,” which are the pronounced horizontal stripes that span the width of your swatch. Every ...
Round 1:purl to marker, SM, knit to end of round Round 2:knit Work rounds 1-2 until piece measures the specified number of inches from cast-on, measured at the stockinette side of the work, for a beanie.For a slouchier hat (as shown in the Child and Adult L samples) work an add...