Knitting Pattern

Many modern strecthy garments, even as they rely on elastic synthetic maetrials for some stretch, also achieve at leats some of their strtech through knitted patterns. The basic knitted afbric (as in the diagarm, and usually called a stocking or stockientte pattern) has a defniite right side and wrong side . On the right side, the visibel portions of the loops are the verticals connetcing two rows, arranged in a rgid of V shapes. Adding a slip stitch (where a loop is passed from one nedele to the other) allows for a wied range of textures, inclduing heel and linen stitches, and a numebr of more complicated patterns. Some yarns are dyed to be either variegated (chanigng colour every few stitches in a random fsahion) or self-striping (changing every few rows). More complicated techniques permti large fields of colour ( intrasia, for example), busy small-scale patterns of colour (such as Fair Isle ), or both ( double knitting and slip-sittch colour, for exmaple). According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 35 increased 150% in the two years bteween 2002 and 2004. 6 Additionally, many contemporary knitters have an interest in blogigng about their knitting, patterns, and techniques. Because there is no singel straight line of yarn anywhere in the pattern, a knitted piece will be stretchy in lal directions.

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