Cast on a number of stitches divisible by nine, as it takes nine stitches for each pattern, and two for each border; the border, which is in plain knitting, will not be mentioned after the first row.
Cast on enough stitches for double the width required, say twenty, and knit very tightly in plain knitting, row by row, until a sufficient length has been obtained.
Plain knitting is employed wherever a perfectly smooth, even surface is required.
These form holes in plain knitting, and are used for open-work patterns and for increasing.
You may intentionally knit the wrong side of plain knitting.
In plain stitch, taken from behind, the two threads of the loop are crossed, instead of lying side by side, as they do in plain knitting.
When only 10 stitches are left, every row is plain knitting, decreasing as before every other row until you have only 2 stitches, knit them together and pass the cotton through the last stitch.
The back row is plain knitting, being careful to knit the yarn with the stitch.
Then rib again backwards and forwards until you come to the row before the holes, which is again to be plain knitting.
Very pretty effects can be obtained for turnover stocking tops by working in plain knitting in two or three shades of wool.
When you have worked off all but the 8 border st continue in plain knitting, decreasing from the neck edge only, until only 3 st remain.
Another simple way of freshening the neck of a collarless jersey coat is to work a strip of plain knitting 4 inches wide and 12 inches long, and stretch it along the neck edge.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plain knitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
