Tuesday, May 27, 2008

how do you knit a beanie

As we know, all knitted fabrics are made using two basic stitches, knit and purl. I wanted to set out some basic knitting instructions as a refresher so here it is.

This bag need not be some expensive item any medium size cloth bag will suffice. When you want to create some products that offer more functionality and usability, consider checking out a washcloth pattern. This pattern looks very nice especially for sweaters.

Individual stitches, or rows of stitches, may be made taller by drawing more yarn into the new loop (an elongated stitch), which is the basis for uneven knitting: a row of tall stitches may alternate with one or more rows of short stitches for an interesting visual effect. Various closures for the garments, such as frogs and buttons can be added; usually buttonholes are knitted into the garment, rather than cut. I drain the water, squashing the sweater into the bowl to get rid of the water.

Yarns are grouped by thickness into six categories: superfine, fine, light, medium, bulky and superbulky; quantitatively, thickness is measured by the number of wraps per inch (WPI). The dye lot specifies a group of skeins that were dyed together and thus have precisely the same color; skeins from different dye-lots, even if very similar in color, are usually slightly different and may produce a visible stripe when knitted together.

Brainstorm, and figure out which way of teaching would be best for you and your students! Even if you're a pretty proficient knitter, this isn't the time to learn a new technique or work with a skinny fingering-weight yarn that will take forever to knit up.

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