If your garment has separately worked button and buttonhole bands, you should first pin the fronts to the back at shoulder seams. Then pin The bands to the front, taking care to ensure that the lower’ edge of the garment forms a straight edge One stitch should be taken from the band and the cardigan [...]

Once you have completed your knitting, you will need to finish off the work. This known as casting off. The stitches can be cast off as they are knitted, purled or worked in a pattern stitch, but the method is the Same. The simple knit cast-off is shown below. The finished cast-off edge. How cast [...]

Shaping You shape your’ knitting by adding or subtracting stitches from the rows, as you work. There are various methods of adding and subtracting stitches to create different styles and effects. Increasing The first two increasing techniques given below are usually used near the edges of the knitting for side shaping, All the increases are [...]

Standard knitting abbreviations alt alternate approx approximately beg begin, beginning CC contrasting color ch chain cm(s) centimeter(s) cn cable needle cont continue, continuing c2b cable to back c4b cable 4 back c2f cable to front c4f cable 4 front dec(s) decrease(s), decreasing dp double pointed dpn double-pointed needles foll following g grams inc(s) increase(s), increasing [...]

Knit stitch: This is the first stitch you learn and is abbreviated in knitting patterns as k. It creates a simple ridged fabric known as garter stitch when worked on its own. When worked in alternate rows with purl stitch opposite!. it forms a smooth textured stitch known as stocking stitch (right) Knit stitches are  [...]

There are only two basic stitches in knitting: knit and purl All knitted fabrics are made using combinations, or variations, of these stitches. To begin, you need to learn how to hold your needles and yarn. Most garments are knitted with two needles to create tubular knitting with four needles!. If you are eight handed, [...]

Chain-Edge cast-on This cast -on method gives a looser edge than the thumb cast-on, although it can he tightened to create a firmer, more elastic edge by knitting into the back, of the stitches on the next row. 1. Make a starting loop on the needle as already described  and hold this needle in your [...]

Casting on To make the very first loops on your needles, you’ cast on’ stitches. There are several methods, but all of them require you, in the first place, to create an initial loop on your needle. A commonly used technique is shown here. All cast-on loops should be made as evenly as possible. Avoid [...]

Tenson To make a successful hand,knitted garment to the chosen Size, it is essential that you work to the stated tension – the Correct number of stitches and rows over a IOcm 14inl square. To check that your own tension is the same as that of the pattern, you need to make a small sample [...]

Brassiéres and Bathing Suits The bodice sloper may be used as the basis for making patterns for sleeveless garments, swim-suits, brassiéres, decollete gowns, et cetera. As such types of garments require extra close fitting around the breast area, a dart is introduced at that point as shown in the accompanying illustration. This method is used [...]