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Using Blocking Wires To Block A Lace Shawl

How to Block A Lace Shawl Using Blocking Wires You can always use pins to block any lace project. But for generations, women have used thin wires, or even strong lengths of cotton thread, in place of pins to shape their lace shawls. This tutorial shows
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Mattress Stitch Tutorial: Horizontal Seams

How To Do Mattress Stitch: Horizontal Seams Fear the mattress stitch no more! Here's a step-by-step tutorial to help you master this easy seaming stitch. This tutorial is for seams worked horizontally (such as a shoulder seam). For seams worked vertically
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Mattress Stitch Tutorial: Vertical Seams

How To Do Mattress Stitch: Vertical Seams Fear the mattress stitch no more! Here's a step-by-step tutorial to help you master this easy seaming stitch. For seams worked vertically (such as a side seam): Locate the "bars" between each column
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Picking Up Stitches: Slipped-Stitch Side (Row) Edge

Picking Up Stitches: Slipped-Stitch Side (Row) Edge Picking up stitches is a way to add new stitches to an already finished bit of knitting--along the sides for a buttonband, perhaps, or at the neckline for a collar. You can add stitches to any edge:
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Picking Up Stitches: Cast-On or Bound-Off Edges

Picking Up Stitches: Cast-On or Bound-Off Edge Picking up stitches is a way to add new stitches to an already finished bit of knitting--along the sides for a buttonband, perhaps, or at the neckline for a collar. You can add stitches to any edge: a cast
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How Insert Thrums in Your Knitting

How to Thrum a Mitten: Knitted Instructions Patterns: Knitted Thrummed Mittens by Jennifer Appleby available in our pattern store Crocheted Thrummed Mittens by Marlaina Bird from Interweave Crochet , Winter 2009 Related information: What is a thrum and
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Continental (Long-Tail) Cast-On

Cast-ons Leaving a long tail (about 1⁄2” to 1” for each stitch to be cast on), make a slipknot and place on right needle. Place thumb and index finger of left hand between yarn ends so that working yarn is around index finger and tail end is around thumb
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Working In The Round

Working In The Round Losing the Ladders (Working on DPNs) Converting Stitch Patterns For Working In The Round
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Ripping Out & Reusing Yarn

Ripping Out & Reusing Yarn Ripping Back Without Ripping Your Hair Out After The Frog Pond: Bringing Yarn Back From The Dead
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Measuring Yourself & Your Clothing

Measuring Yourself Measuring tutorial with photos About Positive Ease, Negative Ease, and Those Pesky Measurements Using The Clothes You Already Own To Find What Fits You
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Cabling Without A Cable Needle

Cabling Without A Cable Needle The following are links to online tutorials for this popular technique. Cabling without a Needle
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Reading Charts

Reading Charts Unless otherwise indicated, read charts from the bottom up. On right-side rows, read charts from right to left. On wrong side rows, read charts from left to right. When knitting in the round read charts from right to left for all rows.
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Wraps Per Inch

Wraps per Inch If you substitute or spin a yarn for a project, you can compare the weight of the yarn to the project yarn by comparing wraps per inch. To do this, wrap your yarn around a ruler for on inch and count the number of wraps. If you have more
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Grafting On The Needles

Grafting Techniques Grafting On The Needles
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Blocking

Blocking Blocking Tutorial, Part One Blocking Tutorial, Part Two
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Ease

Positive and Negative Ease About Positive Ease, Negative Ease, and Those Pesky Measurements
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Swatching

Swatching Swatching Checklist
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Gauge

Knitting Gauge To check gauge, cast on 30 to 40 stitches using recommended needle size. Work in pattern stitch until piece measures at least 4" (10 cm) from cast-on edge. Remove swatch from needles or bind of loosely and lay swatch on flat surface
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Abbreviations used in our patterns

Unfamiliar with an abbreviation you've seen in a Kniting Daily pattern? Use the chart below for an explaination. Can't find the knitting term or abbreviation you're looking for? Contact Knitting Daily with your questions! beg beginning; begin;
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Three-Needle Bind-off

Increase Place stitches to be joined onto two separate needles. Hold them with right sides of knitting facing together. Insert a third needle into first stitch on each of the other two needles and knit them together as one stitch. *Knit next stitch on
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Treble Crochet (tr)

Crochet *Wrap yarn around hook two times, insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through (four loops on hook; Figure 1), yarn over hook and draw it through two loops (Figure 2), yarn over hook and draw it through the next two loops
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Twisted Cord

Stiches Cut several lengths of yarn about five times the desired finished cord length. Fold the strands in half to form two equal groups. Anchor the strands at the fold by looping them over a doorknob. Holding one group in each hand, twist each group
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Straight Stitch Embroidery

Stitches Straight stitches can be worked side by side or radiating out from a center point. For best results, avoid stitches that are too long, too loose, or too close together. *Bring threaded needle out from back to front at the base of the knitted
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Slip Slip Purl Decrease (ssp)

Decrease Holding yarn in front, slip two stitches knitwise one at a time onto right needle (Figure 1). Slip them back onto left needle and purl the two stitches together through back loops (Figure 2).
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Slip Stitch Crochet (sl st)

Crochet Insert hook into stitch, yarn over hook and draw loop through stitch and loop on hook.
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Sl 1, K1, Psso Decrease (skp)

Decrease Slip one stitch onto right needle knitwise, knit the next stitch (Figure 1) , then use the left needle tip to lift the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch and off the needle (Figure 2) .
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Slip Slip Knit Decrease (ssk)

Decrease Slip two stitches knitwise one at a time (Figure 1). Insert point of left needle into front of two slipped stitch-es and knit them together through back loops with right needle (Figure 2).
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Sewn Bind-off

Bind Off Cut the yarn three times the width of the knitting to be bound off, and thread onto a tapestry needle. Working from right to left, *insert tapestry needle purlwise (from right to left) through first two stitches (Figure 1) ...and pull the yarn
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Short-Row: Wrapping a Stitch

Seaming Work to turn point, slip next stitch purlwise to right needle. Bring yarn to front (Figure 1). Slip same stitch back to left needle (Figure 2).Turn work and bring yarn in position for next stitch, wrapping the stitch as you do so. Note: Hide wraps
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Single Crochet (sc)

Crochet Insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through stitch, yarn over hook (Figure 1) ... and draw it through both loops on hook (Figure 2).
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Right Slant Raised Increase (M1R)

Increase With left needle tip, lift strand between needles from back to front (Figure 1). Knit lifted loop through the front (Figure 2).
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Running Stitch

Stitches Working small straight stitches, pass the threaded needle over one knitted stitch and under the next to form a dashed line. The stitches can be worked in equal or varying lengths, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
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Purlwise Raised Increase (M1P)

Increase With left needle tip, lift strand between needles, from back to front (Figure 1). Purl lifted loop (Figure 2).
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Reverse Single Crochet (rev sc)

Crochet Working from left to right, insert crochet hook into a knit edge stitch, draw up a loop, bring yarn over hook, and draw this loop through the first one. *Insert hook into next stitch to right (Figure 1), ...draw up a loop, bring yarn over hook
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Old Norwegian Cast-On

Cast-On Leaving a long tail, make a slipknot, and hold yarn as shown (Figure 1) . *Bring needle in front of thumb, under both yarns around thumb, down into center of thumb loop, back forward, and over top of yarn around index finger (Figure 2) , catch
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Pom-Pom

Stitches Cut two circles of cardboard, each 1⁄2” (1.3 cm) larger than desired finished pom-pom width. Cut a small circle out of the center and a small edge out of the side of each circle (Figure 1). Tie a strand of yarn between the circles, hold circles
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Mattress Stitch Seam

Seaming With RS of knitting facing, use threaded needle to pick up one bar between first two stitches on one piece (Figure 1), ... then corresponding bar plus the bar above it on other piece (Figure 2). *Pick up next two bars on first piece, then next
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Middle East Wrap Cast-On

Cast-On Snugly wrap the working yarn counterclockwise around two needles. Bring the yarn forward between needles, back to front (Figure 1) . Knit across stitches on upper needle (Figure 2) . Rotate the work and knit across the same number of -stitches
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Left Slant Raised Increase (M1L)

Increase With left needle tip, lift strand between needles from front to back (Figure 1). Knit lifted loop through the back (Figure 2).
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Lifted Increase

Increase Right Slant: Insert left needle into back of the stitch below stitch just knitted. (Figure 1) Knit this stitch. (Figure 2) Left Slant: Knit into the back of stitch (in the “purl bump”) in the row directly below the stitch on the needle. (Figure
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Kitchener Stitch

Grafting Step 1: Bring threaded needle through front stitch as if to purl and leave stitch on needle. Step 2: Bring threaded needle through back stitch as if to knit and leave stitch on needle. Step 3: Bring threaded needle through same front stitch as
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Knitted Cast-On

Cast-on Place slipknot on left needle if there are no established stitches. *With right needle, knit into first stitch (or slipknot) on left needle (Figure 1) ...and place new stitch onto left needle (Figure 2). Repeat from *, always knitting into last
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I-Cord

Stiches With double-pointed needle, cast on desired number of stitches. *Without turning the needle, slide the stitches to other end of the needle, pull the yarn around the back, and knit the stitches as usual; repeat from * for desired length.
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Invisible (Provisional) Cast-On

Cast-On Place a loose slipknot on needle held in your right hand. Hold waste yarn next to slipknot and around left thumb; hold working yarn over left index finger. *Bring needle forward under waste yarn, over working yarn, grab a loop of working yarn
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French Knot

Stitches Bring needle out of -knitted background from back to front, wrap yarn around needle one to three times, and use thumb to hold in place while pulling needle through wraps into background a short-distance from where it came out.
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Crochet Chain (ch)

Crochet Make a slipknot on hook. Yarn over hook and draw it through loop of slipknot. Repeat, drawing yarn through the last loop formed.
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Double Crochet (dc)

Crochet *Yarn over hook, insert hook into a stitch, yarn over hook and draw a loop through stitch (three loops on hook; Figure 1), yarn over hook and draw it through two loops (Figure 2), yarn over hook and draw it through the re-maining two loops (Figure
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Duplicate Stitch

Stitches Bring needle out of -knitted background from back to front, wrap yarn around needle one to three times, and use thumb to hold in place while pulling needle through wraps into background a short-distance from where it came out. Horizontal: Bring
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Chain Stitch Embroidery

Stitches Bring threaded needle out from back to front at center of a knitted stitch. Form a short loop and insert needle back where it came out. Keeping the loop under the needle, bring needle back out in center of next stitch to the right.
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Cable Cast-On

Cast-On Begin with a slipknot and one knitted -cast-on stitch if there are no established stitches. Insert right needle between first two stitches on left needle (Figure A) . Wrap yarn as if to knit. Draw yarn through to complete stitch (Figure B)...
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Crochet Chain (Provisional) Cast-On

Cast-on With waste yarn and crochet hook, make a loose chain of about four stitches more than you need to cast on. With needle, working yarn, and beginning two stitches from end of chain, pick up and knit one stitch through the back loop of each crochet
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2 (3, 4, 5) Stitch One-Row Buttonhole

Stitches Work to where you want the buttonhole to begin, bring yarn to front, sl 1 pwise, bring yarn to back (Figure 1). *Sl 1 pwise, pass first slipped st over second; rep from * 1 (2, 3, 4) more times. Place last st back on left needle (Figure 2) ,
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Blanket Stitch

Embroidery 1) Draw a pair of parallel lines where the stitching will go. Pull the needle through from the back of the fabric to the front at the edge of the lower line. 2) Insert the needle into the fabric at the upper line. bring it back out a the lower
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Backward-Loop Cast-on

Cast-ons *Loop working yarn and place it on -needle backward so that it doesn’t unwind. Repeat from *.
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Backstitch Seam

Seaming With right sides together, pin the pieces to be joined together so that their edges are even. Insert the threaded needle from the back to front through both pieces at the right-hand edge, take the yarn around the edges and reinsert the yarn through
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1x1 Rib Cast-on

Signed in as Kat Pullen Cast-On Make a slipknot and place it on the right-hand needle, leaving a long tail.Place the thumb and index finger of your left hand between the two threads. Secure the long ends with your other three fingers. Hold your hand palm
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Zipper

Stitches With RS facing and zipper closed, pin zipper to fronts so front edges cover the zipper teeth. With contrasting thread and RS facing, baste zipper in place close to teeth (Figure 1). Turn work over and with matching sewing thread and needle, stitch
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Whipstitch

Stichese With right side of work facing and working one stitch in from the edge, bring threaded needle out from back to front along edge of knitted piece.
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About Measurements and Ease

Don't forget: You are beautiful, and you deserve beautiful knits that fit your beautiful self. Check out Sandi's Measuring Tutorial With Photos for more info. Ease: Positive versus Negative What is ease? Simply put: Ease is the extra fabric that
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Measuring Yourself: Bust, Waist, Hip

Don't forget: You are beautiful, and you deserve beautiful knits that fit your beautiful self. NOTE: The photos demonstrate where the tape measure should be placed. When YOU measure yourself, don't measure over your clothing! I had to do that
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