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MISC
100
One thread interlocking in a series of loops
What best describes a knitted fabric?
100
To keep penguins from preening their feathers and ingesting oil.
What is a penguin sweater
100
A pare of these have been discovered in Egyptian tombs that date between 3 and 6 centuries B.C.
What are Knitted socks
100
This knitting stitch creates vertical rows on one side of the fabric.
What is a knit stitch?
100
During Queen Elizabeth I reign, a clergyman named William Lee invented this to make stockings.
What the first knitting machine?
200
increasing and decreasing the number of stitches in different areas according to a pattern.
How does a knitter shape their fabric?
200
According to www.WorldKnit.com, there are 24 million of these
What is a knitter
200
Arab countries, Europe, Asia, Persia, Israel, Jordan, Syria as well as North Africa make this claim about knitting.
Where did knitting originate?
200
This stitch is the found on the opposite side of a knit stitch and has predominantly horizontal yarns.
What is the purl stitch?
200
These crazy women sat around the guillotines keeping track of the bloody executions while knitting during the French Revolution.
What are Les Tricoteuses
300
The most important skill when knitting fabric is that your stitches are...?
What is knitting stitches of the same size and uniform tension?
300
They knit sexy lace T-shirts, hats and other items
What are teenagers
300
When a fisherman drowned at sea and washed up to shore you could identify what town he was from by the designs in the garment
What is a sweater
300
When knitting a hat what side is the correct side to wear outwardly? Knit or Purl?
Both are correct?
300
In the 18th century children learned to knit at this age
What is four
400
The first row when preparing to knit is call this.
What is cast-on row or stitches?
400
They knit imaginative and often witty objects and wall hangings
What are artists
400
This tool is narrowed nearly to a point at one end and capped at the other with a ball or flat head.
What is a straight knitting needle
400
This island town off the coast of Scotland creates a style of knitting characterized by striped bands containing crosses, lozenges, stars and other symbols.
What is Fair Isle knitting?
400
What caused the decline of hand knitting as a trade?
What was the Industrial Revolution
500
This is the name of a person you know that knits.
Who am I
500
Both of these kinds of people, from all walks of life enjoy the hobby of knitting.
What are men and women
500
These tools are tapered at both ends to points. They are used in sets of four or five and used to create tubes.
What is a double pointed knitting needle
500
Fishing villages of eastern Scotland and northeastern England developed a style of knitting that was usually one color and creates a thick pad of wool with their cable stitches.
What is Aran - style knitting
500
When knitting on a circular loom the knitter must first do this before adding the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, rows
What is cast-on row