[Nfb-krafters-korner] help with understanding knitting term?
Annette Carr
amcarr1 at verizon.net
Sat Apr 30 21:26:12 UTC 2011
If you like using the stitch markers that look like rubber washers, just
pick up a box of rubber washers at your local hardware store or Home Depot.
I am going to give Joyce's rubber band idea a try. I am always loosing
stitch markers. I use them to group stitches by pattern repeats, color
changes or just to divide up the stitches into groups of even numbers that
are easy to count.
Annette
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Another tip regarding what Annette has stated. I love to use rubber bands.
I have purchased a very large bag of rubber bands thru the office supply
store[Staples] and they are maybe thinner then 1/4 inch and about 2 inches
in length in the folded position. I take one end and knot it which leaves
a circle out of the remaining part. It is easy enough to feel. I can slip
it on my finger when I need to move it or remove it [as Annette has
suggested]and due to the rubber they do not slip off your needles as
readily as some of the stitch markers I have used.
I don't use the wide rubber bands as these that I use are about the
thickness of worstered weight yarn or maybe a little thinner.
Since they are not that expensive there is no concern if you lose them.
Joyce Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
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In a message dated 4/30/2011 6:46:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
amcarr1 at verizon.net writes:
Hi Lovette,
I would like to add a tip to Ninn's description of a WT. Because I cannot
always feel how my yarn is laying I have trouble finding where my wrapped
stitches (also called inactive stitches) begin and end verses my working
stitches (also called active stitches) that I am currently working with, so
here is what I do.
After completing my wrapped stitch and before I start working back in the
other direction, I place a stitch marker on the needle where the wrapped
stitch is sitting. When I come back to that marker and I am ready to make
a new wrapped stitch, I remove the marker, make my wrapped stitch, place
the marker back on the needle where the wrapped stitch is and continue
working.
When it comes time to incorporate the wrapped stitches back into my active
stitches, here is how I manage the marker. Once I get to the marker I
remove it, work the wrapped stitches or stitches as directed in the
pattern,
place the marker back on the needle with the wrapped stitches, turn my work
and continue working the active stitches.
The markers I use for this task are very big which allows me to place it on
my left pinky to hold it while I am making the wrapped stitch.
I hope you find this tip helpful.
Annette
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] help with understanding knitting term?
Hi Lovette,
I will try to describe the w&t for you. The wrap occurs when you move the
working yarn forward and back, i.e., from a knit position, you move your
working yarn between your needles to a purl position. Then you slip the
next stitch from the left needle to the right needle. While the slipped
stitch is on the right needle, you move your working yarn between your
needles to the back or to a knit position. This action has now caused the
working yarn to wrap around the base of the slipped stitch, imagine a
collar, if you will. Now you move the slipped stitch back to the left
needle and then, without finishing the row, you turn your work as you
would
turn your work at the end of a row. Then continue knitting according to
the
pattern. This creates an incomplete row or short row. Eventually, your
pattern will have you knit a complete row that will incorporate the short
row stitches and then continue on to the stitches that were not knit when
you knit your short row. The effect is like a dart in a blouse.
I hope this helps. If I can help further, please let me know.
Blessings,
Ninn
the_ninn at tx.rr.com
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Yewchan
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:40 PM
To: blindstitchers at googlegroups.com; nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] help with understanding knitting term?
Can someone describe this more for me?
I am involved in a monthly dishcloth list and this month they are
doing a cloth with the wrap and turn. This is how it is described.
Wrap and turn (WT)-
move working yarn to front or back of piece (depends on if you were
purling or knitting... you'll know) slip one stitch onto the right
needle, bring your yarn back to the side it was previously on, slip
the stitch back onto the left needle and turn your work and continue
on as pattern directs.
I'm just not quite understanding the wrap part so if someone could
really describe it I would really appreciate with examples maybe?
Thanks.
Lovette
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