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- adverb knitting By
knitting , notpurling .
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Examples
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You do this without actually working the stitch; you just slip it off the working needle and onto the worked needle; the knitwise or purlwise instruction is to make sure that the stitch is twisted a certain way.
Don't Be Silenced vuboq 2006
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If you were to slip stitches knitwise, you'd put your right needle through the stitch the other direction, as if to knit.
Don't Be Silenced vuboq 2006
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SSK Slip two stitches knitwise, one at a time, then stick left needle through the fronts of these two stitches from left to right and knit the two together a left-leaning decrease.
Knitting for Dogs Kristi Porter 2005
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SSK Slip two stitches knitwise, one at a time, then stick left needle through the fronts of these two stitches from left to right and knit the two together a left-leaning decrease.
Knitting for Dogs Kristi Porter 2005
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SSK Slip two stitches knitwise, one at a time, then stick left needle through the fronts of these two stitches from left to right and knit the two together a left-leaning decrease.
Knitting for Dogs Kristi Porter 2005
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A left-leaning decrease that is worked with purl stitches as follows: slip the next 2 stitches knitwise, one at a time, from the left to the right needle; pass them back to left needle, then purl them together through the back loops.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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A left-leaning decrease worked by slipping the next 2 stitches knitwise, one at a time, from the left to the right needle.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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Stitches are most often slipped knitwise when working decreases.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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Cast off knitwise, working stitches through the back loop.
Wise Hilda Knits 2010
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