>>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
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CONTINENTAL KNITTING Lesson 3
Slant of a Stitch
Slanting of the stitch is the direction of the new stitch placed on the needle. (Like a highway: goes to the right or goes to the left).Slanting of the stitch can be from right-to-left or from left-to-right.
Stitch positioned on the needle has two sides (also known as walls): back side and front side. Front side is what you see and back side is what behind the needle.
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Only one of these two sides can be closer (also called outermost) to the right hand needle. (it is a backside on this picture)
To check which side is the outermost, inset the right hand needle through the back side and then through the front side. When stitch becomes twisted?
As a rule of thumb, inserting the needle through the outermost side of the stitch is the way to knit or purl without twisting a stitch. Twisted stitch is also known as a "Granny Stitch" in European knitting and can be used in some patterns for a texture.
Two factors determine positioning also known as a slant of the new stitch: (1) is the needle UNDER or OVER the working yarn at the moment of the making the stitch; (2) type of the stitch – knit or purl.
To avoid twisting stitches, insert the needle through the outermost side of the stitch (either back or front).
To make a twisted stitch, insert the needle through the innermost side of the stitch (either back or front).
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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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