The Knit Stitch. Two Methods of Knitting.

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The KNIT STITCH is one of the two major stitches in knitting. There are two possible ways of knitting this kind of stitch.

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The look of the knitting fabric depends whether you use front or back loop for knitting stitches. If you would like to have your stockinet fabric looking neat, you have to remember a few things.

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Working a knit stitch through its back loop is presented in the table and a short video below. Practice tells us, that this method combined with a purling a purl stitch through its back loop will produce a better quality stockinette fabric than using the front loop knitted stitches.

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