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Revision as of 18:55, 10 June 2007

In knitting, grafting is the joining of two knitted fabrics using yarn and a needle in one of three types of seams:

  1. selvage-to-selvage seam,
  2. selvage-to-end ("wales") seam, or
  3. end-to-end ("wale-to-wale") seam

The Kitchener stitch is a common method for the third type of seam.

Reference

  • June Hemmons Hiatt (1988) The Principles of Knitting, Simon and Schuster, pp. 361-378. ISBN 0-671-55233-3