Knitting Abbreviations – decipher some gobble-de-goop

by Hannah Gilly

October 1, 2024

Knitting abbreviations can look like gobble-de-goop

So many initials, single letters, strings of multiple letters and numbers stuck together.

Not to mention the symbols that appear in there too, like brackets, commas, asterisks and hyphens.

In many ways as knitters we're learning a new language. Once we start to understand it, we'll be reading a shorthand that non-knitters just won't be able to fathom.

Let's make it even easier today, by deciphering some head-scratching symbols.

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