If you are using a bulky or super-bulky yarn, you can knit a scarf thirteen stitches wide. A thirteen-stitch strip in a lighter-weight yarn could be made into a doll scarf, a necklace or decorative narrow scarf, or wrist warmers.
If you Cast On 5 stitches .. then knit 3 of the 5 that you just cast on .. then yarn over ( this will make a stitch) .. then knit the next 2 stitches .. you will have 6 stitches instead of 5 stitches you cast on because you yarned over one .. you just read it differently then they meant .. after the word knit 2 replace the word"to" with " then you will have" 6 ..
To bind off a 2x2 rib stitch pattern, you would knit the knit stitches and purl the purl stitches as you normally would. When binding off, you would knit the knit stitches and purl the purl stitches together to create a neat edge. Continue this pattern across the row until all stitches are bound off.
C4B means "cable four back" and is a cable worked over four stitches. Assuming you knit from right to left you place two stitches on your cable needle (or another temporary stitch holder), hold it behind your work, knit two stitches and then knit the two stitches you placed on the cable needle.
To knit the campanula stitch, start by casting on a multiple of 6 stitches plus 2 for the edges. Begin with a row of knit stitches, then follow with a pattern of k2, p2, k2 for the next row. On the following row, knit the purl stitches and purl the knit stitches to create the distinctive texture. Repeat these rows to form the campanula stitch pattern, adjusting for your desired length.
About the only way a whale can knit is to knit two broken bone ends together. This is the normal healing process of a fractured bone. Whales do not have the manual dexterity to knit in terms of forming stretchy stitches out of loops of yarn.
To knit a cable stitch Cr6F (Cable Right 6 Front), first, you need to place 3 stitches on a cable needle and hold it at the back of your work. Then, knit the next 3 stitches from your left needle. After that, knit the 3 stitches from the cable needle. This creates a twisted cable effect that shifts the stitches to the right, giving the design a textured appearance.
Seed stitch is also known as moss stitch. It is when you knit one purl one throughout but in the next row the purl stitches are above the knit stitches in the previous one (like a chequerboard) unlike ribbing where the knit and purl stitches stay in the same column.
It probably means you are knit 6 stitches, purl 6 stitches
P2 means purl two stitches as K2 means knit two stitches.
Knit a sample first. Cast on and knit with twenty stitches to start, and knit until it's a few inches long. Measure your knitting. Let's say it's four inches wide. Divide twenty stitches by four inches, and that means that for every five stitches you knit, you've got one inch. Multiply that by eight and cast on. Knit until it's eight inches long. You could do the same for centimeters, just measure and calculate in cm.
In knitting, k2tog is an abbreviation for "Knit Two Stitches Together," or simply "Knit Two Together."
This process is called increase. You can increase stitches by one when you knit in both the front and the back of a stitch, thus turning a single stitch into two stitches.