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Knitting help please!

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For a friend ..

(she's asked everywhere, I reckon omleteers will know)

 

A knitting patterns has the abbreviation 'es' which it says is 'edge stitch'

We can't for the life of us work out what this is

 

the pattern says, for eg:

....k3, yo, k2, es p across

and k7, es p across

 

etc

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Looked in my DK knitting book nothing :(

 

 

Put es on net came up with est. est = establish(ed). (Will keep on looking)

 

It is the abbreviation for 'established'

 

A typical usage of this is in articles where you are knitting a repetitive pattern. 'Cont in pat as est for x inches' means to repeat the pattern over and over until the correct measurement is reached.

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The only thing I can think of is that it is possibly to make a nice edge. The pattern may be asking you to make the last stitch different. I have a friend who does something with the last stitch in each row (I think she possibly slips it :?), to make an edge. So it may make sense that this pattern is asking for the last stitch to be a purl one :? However I am not sure why it says 'across' after it.

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an adge stitch is a way of making the first and last stitch of the row a selvedge.

It is also used to increase stitches into the pattern usually before the increase stitch or at the edge stich.

If you are on a knit row the es is a purl stitch and if on a purl row then it is a knit stitch .

This is as stated in my Ultimate knitting bible by Sharon Brant.

Hope it is helpful.

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