Common Knitting Terms
- MC - Main color used in pattern.
- CC - Contrasting or secondary color used in pattern.
- YO - Wrap yarn over the needle.
- Sl - Slip the stitch from the left needle to the right needle without knitting or purling. Stitches can be slipped as if you were knitting or purling the stitch. If the pattern doesn't specify whether to slip as if knitting or to slip as if purling, slip the stitch off in the same manner as the rest of the row. (eg. If you were knitting slip the stitch knitways)
- PSSO - Pass slipped stitch over. Pass the previously slipped stitch that is now on the right hadn needle over the last stitch knitted or purled and let it drop off the needle
- SKPO - Slip 1 stitch, knit 1 stitch, pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch and drop it off the needle.
- K2 tog - Knit 2 stitches together as 1 stitch. Insert needle from left to right through both stitches, wrap yarn around needle finish knitting the stitch then slip both stitches off the left needle.
- YB - Hold yarn behind work as if to knit.
- YF - Hold yarn in front of work as if to purl.
- SSK - slip next 2 stitches (one at a time) as if to knit from the Left needle to the right needle. Insert the tip of the left hand needle through the front loop of both stitches, passing from left to right, and knit together in this position.
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