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Knitting Stitches
Knitting: Continental Purl Stitch
Knitting: American Purl Stitch
Knitting: Dropped Purl Stitch
Knitting: Twisted Stitches
Knitting: Incomplete Stitches
Knitting: Stockinette
Knitting: Unknitting
Knitting: Ribbing
Knitting: Ribbing Mistakes
Knitting: Seed Stitch
Knitting: Moss Stitch
Knitting: Borders
Knitting: Reading Stitches
Knitting: Yarn-Overs
Knitting: Ridge Stitch
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Summary: Reading stitches in knitting is a helpful skill to keep track of the knitted work. Learn to read stitches with tips from a knitting teacher in this free video on yarn crafts.
Pam Grushkin learned to knit at a young age from her mother. First as a passion and lifeline, knitting is now her chosen career. Grushkin has been teaching knitting to people of all...read more
"One thing that's good to learn how to do is to know how you can read your stitches to know where you are. So, if you're doing a seed stitch or a rib, you can look at your knitting and see where you are. So, if you look at your knitting, you can see that the pearl stitch has a bump that sits right up at the top of the needle and the knit stitch lies flat against the needle. Some people like to say that it looks like the pearl stitch is wearing a scarf but no matter what, if you pull at the stitches, to kind of see clearly, you can see that that knit stitch always stays flat and that pearl stitch always keeps that bump up there. If we look at this hodgepodge of stitches we have from playing with it, you can see where your knit stitches are your pearl stitches. So, this would be a pearl stitch and this, which is flat, would be a knit stitch. Here's where we were doing a little bit of seed, so you've got a pearl, a knit, pearl, a knit, and across the row. That's how you can learn to read your stitches."
eHow Article: Knitting: Reading Stitches
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