What is K1b in knitting?
“knit one below“, “K1b” is a knitting technique that allows you to create rib, nice textures and also vertical stripes when using 2 colors as in our video. You knit as follows: insert your right needle through the stitch below the first st on the left needle, bring the yarn through and lift st off left needle.
Does a yarn over count as a stitch?
The term “yarn-over” refers only to the act of wrapping the yarn around the needle, and not to the working of the next existing stitch. Yarn-overs are often used to increase the number of stitches, since knitting a yarn-over creates a new stitch where none existed previously, but does not use up a stitch on the needle.
Does knitting have stitches?
All of knitting is based on two simple stitches, the knit stitch and the purl stitch. Everything else is a combination or variation of those two stitches. The knit stitch is made by creating a loop in the back of your work. The purl stitch is made by creating a loop in the front of your work.
When knitting What does yarn over mean?
The most important thing to know about a yarn over is that it is simply the act of moving the working yarn from one place to another. It does not include the actual knitting or purling of a stitch. A yarn over creates a stitch only when you work the next stitch, but by itself, a yarn over does not make a stitch.
What is the stocking stitch in knitting?
Stocking stitch, or stockinette stitch, is the second most basic of stitch patterns and is created by alternating rows of knit and purl stitches. The right side of the fabric has a ‘V’ pattern and the wrong side has a bar pattern.