![]() ![]() Our swatch above uses a 5-stitch steek, cast on to join a flat garter stitch hem in the round.īefore cutting through the center stitch of the steek, first you’ll need to reinforce it so it doesn’t fray or unravel.Ī good tip before getting started is to run a basting stitch through the column of center stitches (3rd stitch), so you can easily identify it and keep your place as you’re reinforcing the steek. Steeks are worked over an odd number of stitches and alternate between the Dominant Color and the Background Color. It helps guide your scissors and reinforces both sides of the opening that you create. ![]() The term steek refers to the “bridge” that you work into your knitting, along the vertical axis where you want your piece to be cut. If you’re gasping at the thought of cutting into your beautiful knitting, don’t worry - part of the technique involves reinforcing either side of your opening before you create it, so there’s no risk of your hard work coming undone. ![]() This is especially helpful for stranded colorwork knitting, as it avoids the need to purl back while stranding, making your work much easier and your tension more even. This technique is called steeking and it allows a piece to be knit in the round even when openings (such as cardigan fronts, armholes, or necklines) are necessary. On an occasion such as this - when you want to create a wearable opening, from top to bottom, in a knitted item that was worked in the round - a pair of scissors can come in quite handy. However, there’s another, consequential thing you can cut into - your knitting itself!įor example, there are times where you might want to turn a sweater knit in the round (a tube) into a cardigan, as if it were knit flat. Their main uses in our toolkits are often inconsequential: to free a skein so it can be wound, to break off the working yarn from the ball when it’s time to do so (unless you prefer using your hands for this bit), to snip yarn ends after they’ve been woven in, and, on occasion, to make and trim pom-poms. Scissors and snips - we so seldom use them in our knitting craft. ![]()
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