Ordinarily, stitches are knitted in the same order in every row, and the wales of the fabric run parallel and vertically along the fabric. For many people one of the most enjoyable aspects of the craft is browsing through the many yarns available in a knitting shop.
When you complete a lovely, warm sweater made with your own hands, you can proudly wear it and explain that you knitted it yourself. A baby blanket is the perfect place to practice more complex pattern stitches. However, it is not necessary to stick to the yarn or the needles specified in the pattern, but it is important to get the correct number of stitches per inch in order to have the right size, length and other characteristics of the pattern.
But it is all part of the process, and most knitters, no matter how goal-oriented in their daily lives, face this part of the knitting experience with cool composure and aplomb. Of course, the challenge of a complicated pattern, or a technique previously untried requires a bit more focus and can result in "tinking" (also known as un-knitting) or even some serious "frogging" (ripping out more than a few stitches, so called because "rip-it, rip-it" is reminiscent of the frog's "ribbit"). Slip-stitch knitting plays an important role in mosaic knitting, an important technique in hand-knitting patterned fabrics; mosaic-knit fabrics tend to be stiffer than patterned fabrics produced by other methods such as Fair-Isle knitting.
Once you learn the basics of knitting, you will want to continue progressing to more advanced stitches and knitting patterns. All it consists of is knitting one row, then purling the next, and so on, and so on.
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