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Knitting Abbreviations
Craft Your Knits with Ease: The Ultimate Abbreviations Guide
Backward Front Row
Back Loop Only
Beginning of round
Beginning of round marker
Cable 4 Back
Cable 4 Front
Cast Away (sometimes used in crochet)
Cable Needle
Cast-on
Double Pointed Needles
Finish Off
Front Loop Only
Garter Cast-on
Garter Stitch
Knit 1 Backwards
Knit 1 through the Back Loop
Knit 2 Together
Knit 2 together through the back loop
Knit 3 together
Make 1 (increase)
Purl 1 through the Back Loop
Purl 2 together
Purl 2 together through the back loop
Purl 3 together
Place marker
Remove marker
Right side
Repeat
Slip
Slip marker
Slip 1 (slip one stitch)
Slip 1 knitwise
Slip 1 purlwise
Through the back loop
Together
Wrap and turn
Wrong side
Yarn over
Slip beginning of round marker
Stockinette stitch
Stitch(es)
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