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Slip stitch (sl st)

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Insert the hook through a stitch, wrap the yarn round the hook and pull the hook and the yarn through both stitches.
Use slip sts to form chain sts into a ring, or e.g. when you want to move forward on a row without showing. Then work sl sts in the stitches you want to skip.

Patterns using this technique

DROPS 253-59

DROPS 253-59
DROPS Extra 0-1637

DROPS Extra 0-1637
DROPS Extra 0-1647

DROPS Extra 0-1647
DROPS Extra 0-1643

DROPS Extra 0-1643
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Flower1254 wrote:

C'est magnifique je suis débutante et ça va m'aider beaucoup à exécuter certain ouvrage en se référant à ces vidéos c'est très bon

05.04.2011 - 22:54

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