Course Description
You've bought your yarn and you've mastered casting on - what next? Learn the basics to knit, purl, change yarns and cast off, plus rib and moss stitches, all of which are covered in this helpful course. What will you discover?
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Stocking stitch alternates a row of knit stitches with a row of purl stitches. This creates a knitted fabric that is smooth on the right side (with purl stitches forming the bumpy wrong side).
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Price |
Included with Let’s Knit Together membership |
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Duration |
40m 41s |
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Lessons |
10 |
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Difficulty |
Beginner |
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What you need |
A pair of straight, single-pointed knitting needles; one or two balls of yarn, depending on the class |
You've bought your yarn and you've mastered casting on - what next? Learn the basics to knit, purl, change yarns and cast off, plus rib and moss stitches, all of which are covered in this helpful course. What will you discover?
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The cast on method and pattern will determine the right side, so using the yarn end isn’t always the most reliable way to do this. Attach a stitch marker to the right side to avoid any confusion.
Although called a ‘stitch’, this really a pattern as it is created with two repeated rows. It is such a classic that you will soon come across the phrase ‘beg with a k (or p) row, work in st st’ or ‘cont in st st’. This is shorthand for alternating rows of knit and purl to create stocking stitch, with the knit side usually being the right side. You may also be working in stocking stitch with shaping on, say, even-numbered knit rows, while all odd-numbered rows are simply purl to the end. The aim with stocking stitch is for all of your stitches to be very even, as mistakes or differences in tension can be noticeable, unless concealed by a forgiving yarn. Remember that for a knit row the yarn is held at the back, while for a purl row it’s held at the front. Tension squares are often given over stocking stitch, even for an item with patterns or motifs worked in, so keep practising to make this your default ‘knitting’, and everything else will flow from this.
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Join the club1. How to: work knit stitch
2. How to: work purl stitch
3. How to: work garter stitch
4. How to: change yarn
5. How to: work rib stitch
6. How to: work moss stitch
7. How to: cast off knitwise
8. How to: work stocking stitch
9. How to: block your work
10. How to: work basketweave stitch