TERMS USED IN KNITTING - SUPER CHEAT SHEET

In various magazines and books on knitting, certain words and phrases are used that may be unfamiliar. Below is a list: these are terms commonly used in knitting and descriptions - a kind of craft cheat sheet for beginners and not only.

Lace - a pattern made with yarn overs.

Angora wool - is the soft, lightweight fluff of the angora rabbit. Typically, it is not knitted from the fluff alone, so it is spun together with wool, cotton, or silk thread.

Beads - small colored balls made of glass, and less often metal, with a hole, used for stringing, embroidery, etc.

Beret - a round soft headwear without a brim and visor. It has a long history. It was made from satin, lace, velvet, felt, and wool. Adorned with gemstones and feathers. Berets were both stiff and soft, small and fluffy. They were worn by both women and men. They still remain in fashion in various styles.

Blouse - a women's top made of light fabric.

Blouson - a short jacket with a sewn-in waistband. Instead of a waistband, sometimes an elastic band or a cord is used, threaded through the bottom of the jacket in a casing. The blouson looks good in men's, women's, and youth wardrobes.

Boucle - yarn with knots, loops, thickening, and other irregularities.

Bolero - a short fitted sleeveless garment without a fastening.

Camel hair - soft or coarse wool, depending on the age of the camel. The beautiful natural color of the wool ranges from light to dark brown, allowing it to be used without dyeing.

Vikkel - an ancient Estonian knitting technique based on moving stitches.

Auxiliary thread - inexpensive cotton thread (most often darning thread), used in the processing of knitted parts. After knitting is finished, it is removed.

Knit "as the stitches look" - knitting knit stitches over knit stitches, purl stitches over purl stitches.

Knit according to the pattern - knit according to the scheme.

Gaiters - knitted or sewn from dense fabric stockings without feet (up to the knee), worn over shoes and fastened on the outside of the leg with buttons.

Neckline - the cut at the neck on the front part of clothing.

Graffiti - one of the styles of youth clothing, a peculiar continuation of pop art from the 60s. Summer t-shirts, denim suits are decorated with embroidery or printed patterns. Imitate children's drawings, all kinds of texts and inscriptions.

Double-sided knitting - a fabric that has the same surface structure on both the front and back sides, such as garter stitch.

Jumper - a knitted pullover without a collar, worn over the head. It can either have no fastening at all or have a fastening at the top, not down to the bottom. A jumper can have any shape of neckline. If the fastening and collar go to the middle - it's a polo jumper; emphasized loose and elongated - tunic jumpers; roomy and gathered with an elastic waistband - blouse jumpers; long like a dress - dress jumpers...

Yarn length - the number of kilometers of yarn in one kilogram, referred to as the number (№) of the yarn. For example: in a skein of yarn weighing 50g, 110m, the calculation - №=0.110х(1000:50)=2.2.

Loop arc - the upper horizontal part of the stitch, lying on the needle.

Ruffle - a trim on a blouse, dress, or men's shirt in the form of a frill of fabric or lace, descending from the neckline down the chest.

Jacket-cardigan - a jacket without lapels and a collar, mostly long and straight. In the early 19th century, Lord Cardigan introduced the jacket-cardigan into fashion. It can be similar to a spencer, resemble a cardigan, blouson, or jacket. The defining factor in determining a jacket-cardigan is the presence of a fastening.

Vest - a men's or women's sleeveless garment, which appeared after the waistcoat (worn under a cardigan, over a shirt). A vest takes on all forms of a sleeveless jacket (cardigan vest, blouson vest, spencer vest...)

Back wall of the stitch - the vertical part of the stitch located behind the needle.

Purl stitch - the reverse side of the knit stitch.

Cardigan - a knitted sweater with a deep V-neck without a collar, with low-set buttons and large patch pockets.

Portfolio pocket - a pocket with a flap, roomy and expandable.

Skein - is yarn wound into the shape of a ball.

Overall - a one-piece suit made of upper clothing and trousers. The shape of the overall always depends on the new fashion trends. If the fashion for pants changes - the bottom of the overall changes, if the armhole drops or increases - the top of the overall changes as well.

Set - a set of items combined with each other depending on the purpose of the costume. These items do not always need to be connected by stylistic unity.

Suit - a men's combination (jacket and trousers) or women's (jacket and skirt or trousers), made from the same yarn. A suit that also includes a vest is called a three-piece suit. All parts of the suit, unlike the set, constitute a stylistic whole.

Selvage stitch - the first and last stitch in a row of knitting.

Piping - a colored fabric trim along the side seams of trousers.

Lapels - one of the halves of the chest part of wrap clothing, the folds on the chest part of the upper fastening clothing.

«Batwing» - a form of a set-in sleeve, where the armhole starts almost at the waist, and the volume of the sleeve decreases towards the wrist.

Knit and purl smooth - the front and back sides of stocking knitting.

Regular knit stitch - a stitch knitted through the front wall.
Grandma's knit stitch - a stitch knitted through the back wall.

Patchwork pattern - an imitation of a design made from patches. Usually in the form of diamonds, squares, triangles.

Lurex - a thin, shiny thread (the base is metallized or coated with foil). Used for decorative purposes as a component of fabric, yarn - for example, wool with lurex.

Macrame - the art of knotting thick threads, cords, etc. Macrame also refers to a work of art made by knotting thick threads, cords, etc.

Marengo - fabric of dark brown or black color with white streaks. Wool melange fabric for coats, suits. It is also called the color of dark fiber with white additions.

Melange - yarn made from a mixture of fibers dyed in different colors. A finished product knitted from melange yarn has a certain multicolored effect.

Merino wool - fine fluffy wool from Merino sheep. One of the best grades of merino wool is considered to be Australian.

Millefleur (peasant flower pattern) - a pattern on fabric in the form of multi-colored field flowers (translated from French - «thousand flowers»).

Motive - a specific combination of stitches, rhythmically repeating in the pattern.

Ball of yarn - yarn wound around something, for example, the back of a chair.

Mohair - the wool of angora goats, it is long, thin, strong, with a silky sheen. The natural color is pure white. In mohair yarn, it is most often combined with synthetic or wool yarn.

Multicolor - multicoloredness. This term is usually used when talking about melange yarn, the product of which gives the impression of being monochromatic.

Single-sided knitting - knitted fabric that has different surface structures on the front and back sides, for example, stocking knitting.

Cap - the upper rounded part of the sleeve.

Orenburg down shawl - a square product of dense knitting with lace edges or without edges.

Ornament - a pattern made with threads of two or more colors.

Strand - a cut piece of a skein (a bundle of threads).

Front wall of the stitch - the vertical part of the stitch located in front of the needle.

Stitch column - a vertical row of stitches.

Garter stitch - a knitting scheme where all rows are knitted with knit stitches.

Armhole - the cut for the sleeve on the front and back parts of clothing.

Pull-through - a thread connecting two adjacent stitches of the same color from below.

Pullover - a sweater without a collar and fastenings, closely fitting the figure. Pullover in English means «to put on over the head».

Raglan - a sleeve of a special design (coat, dress, etc.), forming a single unit with the shoulder. In such a cut, the sleeve is sewn from the armpit to the neck. It owes its name to Baron Raglan, for whom clothing with such sleeves was made to mask a damaged shoulder.

Neck yoke - the cut at the neck on the back part of clothing.

Crab stitch - one of the elements of decoration in knitted items with a hook. It is knitted with single crochet stitches, but from left to right.

Rapport - a repeating part of a pattern or design.

Sweater - a warm knitted pullover without fastenings, with a high collar that covers the neck. Worn over the head.

Twisted stitch - a stitch whose walls are crossed.

Twisted stitch ("grandma's") - a stitch whose walls are crossed.

Spencer - a short jacket with long sleeves that cover the wrists. Men wore the spencer for a very short time at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Later it became part of only women's clothing.

Hidden fastening - a fastening closed with a flap or a tab. It is sometimes also called a concealed fastening. It is used in almost all types of clothing - from thin blouses to coats.

Pattern scheme (template) - a depiction of a pattern using conditional symbols.

Thread thickness - understood as the diameter of its cross-section, indicated on the yarn label in the yarn number (for example, 32/12) by the number before the slash.

Tunic - something between a blouse and a dress: too long for a blouse, too short for a dress. A tunic is worn over a skirt, dress, or trousers. Usually, it has deep slits on the sides.

Pattern - decorative knitting on the main fabric.

Elasticity - the ability of the thread to return to its original shape after the load is removed.

Texture - the structure of the surface of the fabric (bumpy, flat, etc.).

Stocking knitting - a knitting scheme where knit stitches are knitted on the front side and purl stitches on the back side.

Wrap skirt - a skirt with a deep one-sided overlap.