It also involves purling the slip - stitch rounds because that's how
you make Garter Stitch in the round, but that makes the slipping even easier because the yarn is already at the front of the work.
Another easy way to
make Garter Stitch more interesting is to throw in stripes, as in this super warm baby blanket.
Not exact matches
Garter Stitch is usually the first stitch you learn when learning how to knit, and it's possible to make pretty projects with it before you even learn how to
Stitch is usually the first
stitch you learn when learning how to knit, and it's possible to make pretty projects with it before you even learn how to
stitch you learn when learning how to knit, and it's possible to
make pretty projects with it before you even learn how to purl.
Liat Gat has a video on her website that shows you how to work
Garter Stitch in the round, doing a wrap and turn at the beginning of each round, where the wrap looks like another stitch and makes it look completely fluid and seamless without purling a s
Stitch in the round, doing a wrap and turn at the beginning of each round, where the wrap looks like another
stitch and makes it look completely fluid and seamless without purling a s
stitch and
makes it look completely fluid and seamless without purling a
stitchstitch.
Just like you can get jogs in stripes or designs when you are knitting colorwork in the round, so too does
Garter Stitch jog,
making it obvious where the round ends.
Just
make sure you knit your gauge swatch in the pattern you want to use, that you cast on the proper number of
stitches to
make the pattern work and that you understand that many
stitch patterns take more yarn to work than plain old
garter stitch.
Garter Stitch Faggot uses the same pattern row as Turkish
Stitch, but it is alternated with a row of
Garter Stitch, which
makes the fabric a little firmer and more solid (it also biases thanks to all those right - leaning decreases; you could alternate a row of k2togs with a row of ssks to reduce this tendency).
Though if you'd like to
make a table runner, I'd advise doing 3
stitches on each end in
garter stitch (knit every row) for a much nicer finish — my edges rolled under a bit so you can't see them, but I wish they looked neater!
You Should Definitely Not Knit This If: You are not into
garter stitch as a fabric, and the very idea of picking up all those outer border edges
makes you cringe.
A whole bunch of you expressed interest in how I was picking up
stitches in
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