pattern knit
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Pattern knitting involves creating decorative designs by varying the knit and purl stitches. This is achieved by altering how stitches are added, dropped, alternated, or crossed. These variations allow for a wide range of patterns, such as those seen in fisherman knit sweaters. Pattern knits are a type of weft knit, which is one of the two basic types of knitting, the other being warp knits.1
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