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Knitting Abbreviations

Craft Your Knits with Ease: The Ultimate Abbreviations Guide

BFR

Backward Front Row

BLO

Back Loop Only

BOR

Beginning of round

BOR m

Beginning of round marker

C4B

Cable 4 Back

C4F

Cable 4 Front

CA

Cast Away (sometimes used in crochet)

CN

Cable Needle

Cast-on

Cast-on

DPN

Double Pointed Needles

F/O

Finish Off

FLO

Front Loop Only

GCO

Garter Cast-on

Garter

Garter Stitch

Knit

K1b

Knit 1 Backwards

K1tbl

Knit 1 through the Back Loop

K2tog

Knit 2 Together

K2tog tbl

Knit 2 together through the back loop

K3tog

Knit 3 together

Knit front and back (Increase)

M1

Make 1 (increase)

Make 1 left (increase)

Make 1 right (increase)

Purl

P1tbl

Purl 1 through the Back Loop

P2tog

Purl 2 together

P2tog tbl

Purl 2 together through the back loop

P3tog

Purl 3 together

PM

Place marker

Purl front and back (Increase)

RM

Remove marker

RS

Right side

Rep

Repeat

SL

Slip

SM

Slip marker

Slip, slip, knit

Sl1

Slip 1 (slip one stitch)

Sl1K

Slip 1 knitwise

Sl1P

Slip 1 purlwise

TBL

Through the back loop

Tog

Together

W&T

Wrap and turn

WS

Wrong side

YO

Yarn over

sl BOR m

Slip beginning of round marker

st st

Stockinette stitch

st(s)

Stitch(es)

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