Knitting How To

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• 1 Frodette Baggins // Mar 6, 2010 at 4:03 pm

  Yarn round needle is over the top of the needle and making a loop (depending on which side of the needle the yarn was on in the first place) – that is you are making another stitch on the row. Yarn forward is under the needle – so you are not making another stitch, you are just changing the position of the yarn. Again, it depends on where the yarn was in the first place! Yarn on need is putting the yarn on top of the needle and usually making another stitch in the row – but knitting is an art and you have to know where one ends before you can answer the next one! Usually if you look at the front of the work that you are doing you will be able to work it out for yourself.

  I have to say that I am impressed that someone still knits! I thought that it was an art that was lost forever!

  Good luck – and any more questions – just let me know!
  References :

• 2 JustMe // Mar 6, 2010 at 4:12 pm

  http://www.learn2knit.co.uk/knitting/lace-knitting.php
  http://www.knittingonthenet.com/learn/abbrev.htm
  http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/workshop/knit2.htm#yarn%20round%20needle%20(yrn)

  Last link explains each of them :] Hope this helped!
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• 3 ♥mat // Mar 6, 2010 at 4:21 pm

  http://www.knittingonthenet.com/learn/learnyo.htm

  You may see a yarn over referred to as YRN (yarn round needle), YFRN (yarn forward and round needle), YON (yarn over needle) or YFON (yarn forward and over needle). Sometimes the yo is referred to by these other abbreviations in different countries; other times they are used as a way to differentiate between yarn over’s that are made between a knit and a purl stitch, two purl stitches, or two knit stitches. Regardless, a yarn over is worked in the same way.

  here is a link to YFWD on youtube:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYH6EGpUh9k
  another link for yarn forward
  http://www.keyboardbiologist.net/Techniques/YarnForwardKnit.htm

  according to http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-glossary
  yfwd aka yf = yarn forward
  yfon = yarn forward and over needle. Same as yo
  yfrn = yarn forward and ’round needle. Same as yo
  yon = yarn over needle. Same as yo
  yrn = yarn ’round needle. Same as yo
  according to
  http://knitting.about.com/od/knittingglossary/g/yarn_over.htm
  yarn over is Also Known As: YO, yo, yarn forward, yf, yfwd, yfon (yarn forward over needle), yfrn (yarn forward ’round needle)
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• 4 Pam D // Mar 6, 2010 at 4:42 pm

  This is just different terminology used in English patterns against US patterns.

  The English patterns generally don’t use YRN, they use the YFWD and YON.

  Americans use YRN as instructions to wrap the yarn around the needle for an increase and in the examples I have seen it has always come from the back of the work, wrapping entirely over the needle to the back and it may mean a slightly looser/larger eyelet hole than the English method although I’ve never tried it.

  English YFW is to bring the yarn forward between the needles to the front of the work. The next stitch is usually a Knit stitch and therefore the yarn has to go over the top of the right hand needle to be able to knit that next stitch and in doing so has created an increase. The difference between this and the YRN is that the yarn has come from the front, rather than the back.

  English YON is Yarn Over Needle and assuming your last stitch was a knit stitch, you bring the yarn over the needle straight into a purl stitch and the yarn that came across the top has also become an increase. It can also work if your last stitch was a purl, to do YON then knit would result in an increase as your yarn would have gone over the top of the needle to knit the next stitch.

  I would suggest you just sit down with your knitting and try it out, they are all simple and probably give a similar result.

  I’m Australian and am used to the English method and found the differences with American patterns very confusing at first, however there are so many helpful sites available from either country that it’s not that hard to figure out the slight differences.

  At least a knit or purl stitch is the same in both systems, unlike crochet which is totally different stitches and very confusing to try and follow patterns in the other system.

  Hope this helps. Good luck.
  References :
  knitting for over 40 years
  http://www.bestlearntoknit.com

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