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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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Remove the final row of stitches from the knitting needle and secure them so that the work does not unravel.

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Ribbing is a stretchy fabric created by alternating knit and purl stitches such that like stitches form vertical lines as the fabric is knit. Ribbing is used at the tops of socks and at the hems of ...

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Another term for "frog" meaning to rip the knitted work back to correct a mistake. Tink comes from the word "knit" spelled backwards.

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Bobbles are large bumps created in a knit fabric by knitting several times into the front and back of a single stitch, then decreasing back to one stitch on a subsequent row.

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Ravelry is a social network for knitters and crocheters, enabling them to network and to share patterns and projects with one another.

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Pick up stitches by inserting a needle into the area where stitches need to be created (e.g. a neckline)and put through a loop. The loop becomes a new stitch to be knit on the next round or row. ...

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Continental knitting, sometimes called German knitting, is done by holding the yarn in the non-dominant hand while the dominant hand is used to create the new stitches. It is generally faster than ...

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