Knitting is no longer only for grandmothers or just any mothers. Like weaving, knitting is a technique for producing a two-dimensional fabric from a one-dimensional yarn or thread.
Slip-stitch knitting plays an important role in mosaic knitting, an important technique in hand-knitting patterned fabrics; mosaic-knit fabrics tend to be stiffer than patterned fabrics produced by other methods such as Fair-Isle knitting. If you are knitting with circular needles, you can start making tubular scarf for this cast around 300 stitches, and join them together in a circle. Since the craft is quite simple, it caught on and spread to other cultures rather quickly.
Of course, the challenge of a complicated pattern, or a technique previously untried requires a bit more focus and can result in "tinking" (also known as un-knitting) or even some serious "frogging" (ripping out more than a few stitches, so called because "rip-it, rip-it" is reminiscent of the frog's "ribbit"). After all, it is the experience of knitting that we are seeking, more so than the finished-object. This takes longer to dry and I suggest changing to a dry towel and flipping the sweater over so it dries quicker.
Thicker yarns generally require thicker knitting needles, whereas thinner yarns may be knit with thick or thin needles. The third needle type consists of circular needles, which are long, flexible double-pointed needles.
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