Knitting British gum
A typical example of the English knitting knitting are various British gum. Cloth of them to get volume, fluffy, two-way pattern. English knitting needles is strongly stretched, so do not use it to design the bottom of clothing. As a rule, the British gums knit scarves, hats, sportswear.
If you suspect your knitting products by the British gum, be prepared for the fact that this binding requires an increased consumption of yarn.
Knitting needles British gum used several techniques:
- Knitting front loop:
- Knitting purl loops;
- Direct nakida (when knitting the English gum nakida to do movement spoke to him, in this case the pattern will not twisted);
- To start and end loops in each row and looked the same edge is smooth and neat, for knitting the British gum must be an odd number of loops, and should not be tightly knit.
To correctly calculate the required number of loops, tie a sample, but not over-tighten the loop. On it you will be able to calculate how many loops you need to dial for knitting things the right size.
The finished product will look voluminous and lush due nakida that when knitting the English eraser leave "windows", as in lace knitting. Before each front loop do nakida and remove them together on the needle in the right hand, not provyazyvaya. Due to the fact that the number of loops nakida increase in number as well as to obtain the volume and density of the pattern, a loop count nakida per loop.
Instructions knitting British gum
1. Formation of the first series takes place by alternating one front and one backstitches loops, ie fit the usual elastic 1x1.
2. In the second row vyvyazyvanii remove an edge loop, then the front loop of the front provyazyvayut make direct nakida and remove the following, not provyazyvaya.
3. vyvyazyvanii next row should make nakida, then, leaving the thread behind the blade, remove the loop, and the next knit with nakida previous row front.
4. The remaining rows of knitting elastic knitted English alike, except the last one. Before the front loop make direct nakida, then it is removed together with nakida not provyazyvaya, leaving the thread at work. Wrong with nakida vyvyazyvayut purl loop.
Looks beautiful two-tone English gum with narrow transverse stripes. Knit it this way: one by one, without breaking the thread, two rows of one color, two rows - one. Similarly, you can knit a thread three or more colors.
To knit two-color English gum with longitudinal stripes of different colors, you will need circular needles or straight, but those having two working end.
Spokes with two working ends can be made from conventional lines, if sharpen other non-working end.
As mentioned above, the British gum is acceptable for knitting scarves, hats, berets, sportswear. The undoubted advantage of this pattern is the fact that such things are easily stretched, which is why this technique is popular for performing knitting children's clothes.