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Bias Knitting
To be able to achieve bias knitting is not for the faint hearted! It's a trick to learn when you're competent at your craft and you fancy a real challenge - it messes with your head a little that's for sure - but its easy peasy when you know how - we promise. Bias knitting means to knit diagonally. It's not knitting straight up and down or side to side like regular knitting and it looks quite complicated at first but easy when you know how and have practised.
It adds a new light onto your garment- making the product fall nicely. Your clothing certainly won't be stiff or starchy that's for sure and it mixes up the colours beautifully. It makes your garment look on the slant and is very eye catching. It makes for an interesting angle and can make your designs a-symmetric if you wish.
It can appear daunting but it's basically the traditional knit one purl one if you wish, just doing it a little differently. Instead of having all your stitches on your rows at once you simply add them gradually. As the length of your garment increases - so does your amount of stitches on a row. It's really quite simple when you know how!
It's a game of adding stitches to a row and then decreasing again. Start off with one stitch on the first row, then three the next, five the one after until you get to the maximum you need, then simply decrease two at a time thereafter. You'll end up with a square but all diagonally patterned. You can work in small patterns or squares and knit them altogether in a patchwork design. If you're really accomplished then do the whole piece in one go. Bias knitting is a popular method to use or ponchos, scarves and pashminas.
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