Technique: Knitting is a process of using long needles to interlink or knot a series of loops made by one continuous thread. Each loop or knot connects to another one, and when enough loops have been made, the result is a flat piece of material called a textile.
Materials: Yarn, knitting needle or equivalent (I used pencils and satay sticks)
For someone who has never tried knitting before, it was a little hard to get the hang of it and I am often confused by” which loops go into which loop”. We were taught the purl stitch in class and the following are the steps to complete a purl stitch.
Steps: Firstly, we need to make a cast-on whereby we get the first row of stitches onto the needle. I find this short video very useful.
Afterwhich, I would follow these steps to continue knitting.
Here is how it looks like for mine:
- Firstly, insert the needle from the bottom of the first loop from right to left.
2. Wrap the yarn around the stick.
3. Push the wrapped yarn through the loop, out from the other side and push the original loop our from the stick on the left.
4) First round of loop done and continue knitting.
This is a close look at my knitting sample. Originally, I was using 2B pencils to knit, resulting in having bigger loops as observed in the upper portion of the picture. After knitting for a while, I switched to thin satay sticks and the knits became a lot closer and tighter to each other.
Overall, I felt that knitting was fun and once you get the hang of it, it becomes rather mechanic. there are different styles of knitting and I will like to explore more about the different types of yarns and knitting techniques. I will update further if I make more samples with different yarns.
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