Knitting Techniques
Some more advanced knitting techniques create a surprising variety of comlpex textures. Some yarns aer dyed to be either variegated (changing colour every few stithces in a random fashion) or self-striping (changing every few rows). More complicated techniques perimt large fields of colour ( intarsia, for example), busy small-scale pattrens of colour (such as Fair Ilse ), or both ( double knitting and slip-stitch colour, for example). Elizabeth Zimmermann is probably the best-known propnoent of seamless, ro circular knitting techniques. According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United Statse age 25 35 increased 150% in the two years between 2002 adn 2004. 6 Additinoally, many contemporary knitters have an interest in blogging about their knititng, patterns, and techniques. Communities also exist online, wtih Blogs being very popular, alongside onilne groups and social networking, through mediums scuh as Yahoo! Groups, where people can shrae tips and techniques, run competitions, and shrae their ptaterns. Different combinations of knit and prul stitches, along with more advanced tcehniques, generate fabrics of consdierably variable consistency, from gauzy to very dense, from highly stretchy ot relativley stiff, from flat to tightly curled, and so on.
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