Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
Reverse Stitch 1
A course by Carmen García de Mora , Textile Designer and Knitting Professor
Joined October 2018
About the video: Reverse Stitch 1
Overview
“In this lesson you are going to learn the reverse stitch and how you can obtain an infinite number of textures by combining it with the right stitch. We will also see how these points are represented graphically. Do not be intimidated by the graphics, with them you can reproduce any stitch you find in the books, whatever their language. In addition, this way you can draw and design the textures you want to weave.”
In this video lesson Carmen García de Mora addresses the topic: Reverse Stitch 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles. Learn how to knit a circular, top-down garment and discover all that you can create without using seams.
Partial transcription of the video
“Purl stitch Now that you know the knit stitch, I'm going to show you the purl. We will start by mounting stitches as we did with the knit stitch. We leave three times the length we are going to mount. Since this is a swatch of about 20 cm, we will leave about three times those 20 cm, three and a half, actually. OK? So, we hold the thread as we did for the knit stitch. Mounting the stitches is the same. So, starting from our triangle, with the needle, we lower the thread to have our V and there we start. The tail on the thumb on the outside, the forefinger through the middle, and we come out...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
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Category
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Areas
Accessory Design, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Textile Design

Carmen García de Mora
A course by Carmen García de Mora
After being awarded her degree in technical engineering for industrial design, Carmen García de Mora was left yearning for a life of knitting needles and yarn, a passion inherited from her grandmother. In that moment she decided to study a Master's in knitwear design and has dedicated herself to both this and teaching since 2005.
Up until 2020, she taught a class in industrial knitwear as part of a fashion design degree in Barcelona. She is also an industrial knitwear production consultant as well as a hand-knit garment and collection designer for adults and infants. As for more personal projects, she markets her new designs through Ravelry and shares them with her follows on Instagram.
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