Building vocabulary

I might claim that I know how to knit. That I learnt it as a child. But I still have a lot to learn about yarn choice, techniques and patternings. And if I am to have an English knitting blog, I need to build my vocabulary.

Today I tackle a distinction I have not given thought since knitting for my Barbie dolls: warp and weft knitting. Weft knitting is what most hand knitters do: feeding one or more lines of yarn through a horizontal line of loops or stitches. Warp knitting is the technique used in your T-shirt: with one strand of yarn for every vertical line. Warp knitting was also part of the secret that made the tiny doll's garments impossible to copy without making the fabric too chunky over any decreases or increases.