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>>Continental Knitting

Lesson 1: Basic Definitions

Lesson 2: Cast On

Lesson 3: Slanting of a stitch

Lesson 4: Knitting First Row

Lesson 5: Purling First Row

Lesson 6: Forming selvage or edge stitch 

Lesson 7: Working in rounds

Lesson 8: Analysing knit and purl stitches

Lesson 9: Types of yarn

Lesson 10: Types of needles

Lesson 11: Knitting gauge & happy knitting

Lesson 12: Basic Shapes

Lesson 13: Correcting Mistakes

Lesson 14: Cables

Lesson 15: Connecting Two Yarns

Lesson 16: Bind Off

Lesson 17: Seaming 

Lesson 18: Picking Up Stitches

CONTINENTAL TECHNIQUE Lesson 12

Basic Knitting Shapes

Whether you decided to knit a vest, a cardigan or a pullover shapping is always involved.
V-neck, round neck, square neck or raglan, set-in square, set-in round - these are all definitions of garment shapping

The good news is that all you have to know is how to increase and how to decrease stitches.
  • Increasing is when you make an additional stitch
    Make one stitch Variant 1 (Yarn Over)
    Make one stitch Variant 2 (In the same stitch twice)
    Make one stitch Variant 3 (In the same stitch twice)
    Make one stitch Variant 4 (Making a knot between two stitches the same as in Cast On variant 2 )
    Make one stitch Variant 5 (Making a loop or twisted yarn over beteen two stitches)
  • Decreasing is when you process more then one stitch as one stitch
    Decrease two stitches Variant 1
    Decrease two stitches Variant 2
    Decrease two stitches Variant 3
    Working with waste yarn
    Working with extra needle
    Working with remaining stitches
    Binding off stitches in the middle of work
    Casting on stitches in the end of row
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  • >>Allover Topics

  • Yarn Over stitch (YO)
  • Magic Loop
  • Slip stitches onto waste yarn or cable needle

  • Twisted knit stitch (Granny Stitch)
  • Make 1 Stitch (M1)
  • 2-Tail Cast ON
  • Connecting 2-colored yarns
  • Bind off stitches in the middle of the work
  • Decrease stitches and changing the slant
  • Making cables without cable needle
  • Slip first stitch
  • Fixing mistake with crochet hook
  • Bind off with crochet hook
  • Two-Needle Bind off

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