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Crocheting and Knitting

This category is devoted to the ancient arts of fabric crafting. Knitting and crocheting are interrelated hand crafts that offer the unique oppotunity to wear the results of one's imagination. Questions about beginning and advanced techniques, yarns, threads, and patterns will be found in this category.

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What type of fabrics and fibers are there?

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Just about anything you can imagine might be used for textiles, from popular fibers like wool, silk and cotton to more exotic ones like bamboo, corn, milk, sea weed, soy, crab shells, wood, camel, buffalo, and even pet hair.

What us size is a 1.4mm crochet hook?

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A size 5 steel hook.

http://www.crochetmagazine.com/hook_sizes.php

What are injection needles made of?

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Most tattoo needles are made of some grade of stainless steel. Surgical stainless steel is very common in tattooing needles.

What is the difference between woolen and worsted yarns?

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Polyse rcotton is generally used for shirting material, it get less wrinkles so it requires less ironing. Generally Polyester viscose is used for suiting material, it is also known as Terecot. Polyester wool is a mix of Polyser & wool. It is best for Suits. It is also called as Terewool or Polywool. It is wrinklefree & bubblefree.

What crochet pattern looks like weaving?

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Crochet is a process of creating fabric from yarn, thread, or other material strands using a crochet hook. You can make quite a few things such as baby booties, scarves, gloves, etc.

What does work all even rows mean in knitting?

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It just means to knit (the knit stitch) for 3 rows. No increases, no decreases, no pattern stitches.

What does 'wyif' stand for when knitting?

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In knitting, wyif is the abbreviation for: With Yarn In Front.

What do the words crochet mean?

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Crotch

Noun

  1. The part of the human body between the legs where they join the torso.
  2. The part of a garment that passes between the legs.

What is a row in knitting?

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Usually it means to knit every stitch in a row, or if on the purl side to purl every stitch. Consider it synonymous with stockinette stitch.

How many chains do you crochet to make a Queen sized blanket?

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It depends on your yarn and hook size, and how much drape you want on your blanket. You need to work a sample swatch. Make about twenty chains and then work say 10 rows if your stitch is straightforward, more if there's a long pattern repeat. Measure the size of the swatch, and compare the size to the blanket size you want, and multiply up as necessary.

How do you add stitches at the end of a row?

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What is a warp yarn?

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In weaving, the warp is yarn that is attached to either beam on the loom (length-wise). It's what the weft passes back and forth through.

What does make 1 mean in knitting instructions?

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I believe you mean 1 sc not so which is one single crochet. This is usually within a pattern when you are doing double crochet or some other fancier style and it ask for just a single crochet stitch like at the end of a row.

Which yarn is more stronger thicker or thinner?

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That is called the weight.

You are knitting a scarf using knit one row purl a row it keeps rolling up at the ends is there a way you can fix it without changing the pattern?

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When you alternate between knit and purl rows (knit one row, purl one row, knit one row, purl one row, etc.) it is called the Stockinette stitch.

Unfortunately, the stockinette stitch always curls at the edges, and worse, there is no easy or perfect way to fix this problem. If you have a knowledge of crochet stitches, you could crochet an edging around the scarf, but this would change the whole look of the scarf, and there is no guarantee that it would work.

The best way to avoid this problem with future scarves is to knit it in garter stitch (knit every row), or another stitch that will not curl. Also, if you like the look of the stockinette stitch and would still like to use it, then work in stockinette, but at the beginning of each purl row, knit the first three stitches and the last three stitches. If you do this, remember to change the yarn to the back or front of the work depending on whether you are changing to the knit or purl stitch.

What does kfb stand for in knitting?

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knit into the front and the back of the stich.

How do you stop the edges of your knitting from rolling in?

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You can either add a few rows of garter stitch (which is knit every row) or you can do a few rows of ribbing (which is knit 1, purl 1). One of my favorite boarders to put on sweaters or scarves is the seed stitch (knit 1, purl 1 to the end of the row and turn your work, then you purl the knit stitches and knit the purls and you just keep repeating that every time you turn your work)

What is the difference of double yarn and single knitting yarn?

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"Double knit," refers to the weight or thickness of the yarn. Double knit is between sport weight and worsted weight. It is named for the knitting technique that most often calls for this weight: double knitting. Double knitting is the knitting of a two sided fabric that is reversable with a two color pattern on one side and the negative of that pattern on the reverse side. It is called double knitting because both sides are knit at the same time on one set of needles.

"4 ply" refers to the number of individual strands twisted together to form a yarn. A yarn with two strands is called "2 ply," and so on. The number of plies determines, to a degree, the fluffiness or smoothness of a yarn. Yarn with more plies is generally smoother and less fluffy. The number of plies does not determine the weight or thickness of the yarn.

It is possible to have a double knit yarn that is also 4-ply, or to have a thicker yarn that is has more or fewer plies. The same is true with a thinner yarn.

How many stitches per inch using number 7 US knitting needles?

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Stitches per inch on size 10 needles varies greatly, because some people knit tighter or looser than others, causing the finished material to be bigger or smaller for different people, depending on how tightly or loosely they knit.
Because everyone's tightness in knitting is different, something was created for knitters long ago called gauge. Gauge is another word for tightness of knitting, and most patterns will have the required gauge to make that project, that way you won't end up with a hat three times larger than it aught to be. Most of those patterns will have a suggested needle size to acquire the correct gauge, but this is only a suggestion to give an idea of ABOUT what size to use.

How do you crochet a beautiful afgan?

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What is beautiful to one person might not be to another. Find a pattern that YOU find beautiful. Practice the craft until you can make nice, even stitches. If there are specialized stitches or procedures needed, you might like to learn those as well.

In my opinion, you can make a very beautiful afghan with just basic stitches. There are many beautiful granny square afghans and all you need to know to make those are how to make and assemble granny squares and have a good sense of color.

What does is mean slip marker in knitting?

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slip marker just means move your marker from your left needle to your right needle. a marker just sits on the needle and shows the place, its not part of the knitting and will be removed when you have finished.

How is slub yarn made?

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Slub yarns, as the name implies, possess bumps or slubs along the length of the yarn usually in uneven, unpredictable patterns.