As we know, all knitted fabrics are made using two basic stitches, knit and purl. Knitting threads or yarns are used to create cloths or warm cloths.
More complicated techniques permit large fields of colour (intarsia, for example), busy small-scale patterns of color (such as Fair Isle), or both (double knitting and slip-stitch colour, for example). Knitting is the delicate balance of holding needles and continuously feeding yarn until a pattern emerges. Knitters have developed methods for giving the illusion of a circular wale, such as appear in Celtic knots, but these are inexact approximations.
To start you can even make some simple combination of stitches. Flat knitting is usually used to knit flat pieces like scarves, blankets, afghans, and the backs and fronts of sweaters. A wale can split into two or more wales using increases, most commonly involving a yarn over.
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