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2. Knitting needle - Wikipedia

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   Circular knitting needles in different lengths, materials and sizes, including plastic, aluminum, steel and nickel-plated brass. The first US patent for a circular needle was issued in 1918, although in Europe they may have been used a little earlier.

3. Circular knitting - Wikipedia

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   Spool knitting is a form of circular knitting using pegs rather than needles, one peg per stitch. A variant automates the stitching action, thus producing a hand-crank circular knitting machine. Commercial knitting machines are heavy-duty powered versions of the hand-cranked ones; they may knit multiple threads at once, for speed.

4. Row counter (hand knitting) - Wikipedia

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   "Rows: When knitting and suddenly called away, mark off the number of rows reached. Increase/decrease: For casting on, or casting off stitches. Times: To mark off the pattern when doing fancy knitting, etc. Measure: Very handy when tape measure is mislaid. Needle gauge: For correct sizes from 6 to 12." [1] [i]

5. Gauge (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   The term "gauge" is used in knitting to describe the fineness size of knitting machines. It is used in both hand knitting and machine knitting. The phrase in both instances refers to the number of stitches per inch rather than the size of the finished article of clothing. The gauge is calculated by counting the stitches (for hand knitting) or ...

6. Crochet hook - Wikipedia

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   The Craft Yarn Council of America (CYCA), an industry trade association, has collated a table of crochet hook and knitting needle sizes from de facto industrial standards and elicited the cooperation of its member organizations in adopting them to regularize sizing in the United States. The listed gauge systems are also widely used internationally.

7. Yarn weight - Wikipedia

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   A more hands-on method, there is the test swatch and the gauge swatch. Knitting a test swatch requires knitting the yarn into a small, roughly 4 in (10 cm) square textile of even stitches. [4] Comparing this with recommended needle sizes, yarn, and the knitter's own signature tension, allows for adjustments to all of these things.