| Slip Knot |
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Wind the yarn around two fingers and over the two
fingers again to
the back of the first thread through the front one to form a loop.
Pull end to tighten the loop.
A slip knot is the starting point for almost everything you do in knitting
and is the basis of all casting on techniques.
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| Casting On
in 8 steps |
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1. Make a lip knot about 1 yard (1 meter – depending
on the number
of stitches required) from the end of the yarn. Hold the needle in
the
right hand with the ball end of the yarn over your first finger.
2. Wind the loose end of the yarn around the left thumb from front to
back.
3. Take the ball end of yarn with your right forefinger over the needle
point.
4. Pull a loop through to form the first stitch.
5. Remove your left thumb from the yarn and
6. pull the loose end to secure the stitch.
7. Repeat from 2.
8. until the required number of stitches has been cast on.
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| knit stitch
(ks) |
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Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in the left hand.
With the yarn at the back of work, insert the right -hand needle from
left to right through the front of the first stitch on left-hand needle.
Wind the yarn from left to right over the point of the right-hand needle.
Draw the yarn back through the stitch, thus forming a loop in the right-hand
needle. slip the original stitch off the left-hand needle.
Symbol(s): 
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| twisted
or crossed knit stitch (tk) |
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Insert right-hand needle in the back loop of the
left-hand needle and
knit a stitch.
Slip the stitch off the left-hand needle.
Symbol(s): 
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| purl stitch
(ps) |
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With the yarn at the front of the work insert the
right-hand needle
from right to left through the front of the first stitch on the left-hand
needle.
Wind the yarn from right to left over the point of the right -hand
needle.
Draw a loop through onto the right-hand needle. Slip the stitch off
the
left-hand needle.
Symbol: 
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| twisted
or crossed purl stitch (pk) |
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With the yarn at the front of the work insert the
right-hand needle in
the back loop of the left-hand one.
Wind the yarn and draw a loop through on to the right-hand needle.
Slip the stitch off the left-hand needle.
Symbol:
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| yarn over (yo) |
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An extra stitch can also be made with a loop between
two stitches
which is knitted or purled on subsequent rows. This form a hole
which can be used as a decorative feature.
yo between two knit stitches:
Bring the yarn forward as if to purl a stitch, then taking the yarn
over
the top of the needle knit the next stitch.
you between two purl stitches:
Take the yarn over the top of the needle, then between the two needles
to the front again before purling the next stitch.
Symbol(s): 
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| knit
two stitches together (k2tog) |
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Insert the right-hand needle from left to right thorough
two stitches
instead of one, then knit them together as one stitch. This is called
knit two together.
Symbol(s): 
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| purl
two stitches together (p2tog) |
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Insert the right-hand needle from right to left through
two stitches
instead of one, then purl them together as one stitch.
This is called purl tow together.
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| slip
stitch knitwise |
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You can slip a stitch knitwise where the right-hand
needle is inserted
as if to knit. In this case the slip stitch becomes twisted.
Occasionally twisted slip stitches can become a feature of the stitch
pattern.
Symbol: 
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| slip
stitch purlwise |
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You can slip a stitch purlwise where the right-hand
needle is
inserted as if to purl.
This method is used when the lip stitch is to be worked on the
following row.
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| sl1,
k1, psso (decreasing) |
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Slip one stitch then knit the next one and pass the
slipped stitch over.
Symbol(s):
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| sl1,
k2tog, psso (decreasing) |
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Slip one stitch then knit the next two together and
pass the slipped
stitch over.
Symbol(s): 
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| Binding Off |
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binding off knitwise:
knit the first two stitches.
* using the left-hand needle lift the first stitch over the second
and
drop it off the needle. Knit the next stitch and repeat from the *
until all the stitches have been worked form the left-hand needle
and one stitch only remains on the right-hand needle.
But the yarn and thread the cut end through the stitch on the needle.
Draw the yarn up firmly to fasten off the last stitch.
Always find off in pattern: this means that in stockinette stitch
(is the most widely knitted fabric, comprising of alternate knit
and purl rows) you bind off knitwise on a knit row and purlwise
on a purl row.
Binding off ribbing should always be done as f you were continuing
the rib and most pattern stitches can also be followed during the
course of the binding off.
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