Knitting threads or yarns are used to create cloths or warm cloths. Knitters were first believed to have begun their craft in the first few centuries AD.
Various closures for the garments, such as frogs and buttons can be added; usually buttonholes are knitted into the garment, rather than cut. For comparison, woven garments stretch mainly along one direction (the bias) and not very much, unless they are woven from stretchable material such as Lycra. During knitting, the active stitches are secured mechanically, either from individual hooks (in knitting machines) or from a knitting needle or frame in hand-knitting.
Once you learn these two stitches you will find everything else is just a variation of the knit and purl stitches. Lace knitting is the relatively a new, hardly two hundred years old. All in all choosing your knitting yarn is a pleasurable experience.
If a knitter buys insufficient yarn of a single dye lot to complete a project, additional skeins of the same dye lot can sometimes be obtained from other yarn stores or online. If the fibers are first aligned by combing them, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun.
Patterns for knitting provide a strong outline and foundation for starting any new knitting project. All it consists of is knitting one row, then purling the next, and so on, and so on.
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