Chain Edging for Garter Stitch: Knit Edging
Learn how to create a beautiful and neat garter stitch edges that will elevate your projects to a whole new level.
Learn how to create a beautiful and neat garter stitch edges that will elevate your projects to a whole new level.
Learn to add net yarn or lace or ribbon yarn to your knitting, on both the knit and the purl sides.
These videos will help you to make knit stripes one at a time, connecting them to each other as they are knit using the join as you go method.
The knit stitch is the first stitch you need to learn after casting on in order to get knitting. It’s pretty easy when you break it down into its parts.
The purl stitch is essentially a reversed knit stitch, so the front of a purl looks like the back of a knit, and visa versa.
The open edge knit edging makes a clean, neat edge of chains. When used it affects just the first and last stitches of each row
Using the flat edge on the sides of your knit creations helps prevent curling and gives a nice, straight line to your knitting.
The slip stitch edge creates little nubs on the edge of your work, one nub for every other row. It’s a sturdy edge that is easy to seam together.
“Join to knit in the round” was a terrifying phrase the first time I read it, but once I learned how simple it was, I had to laugh at myself.
Yarn over knitwise, also simply called a yarn over (yo) is really quite simple to do and is a very commonly used knit stitch.