What is YO on a pattern

January 7, 2007 4:24am CST
Please can someone help, i've been looking through the free patterns online and found some good ones to try on my throw. I've come across a stitch that i don't know how to do. It's called Yarn Over, can you tell me how to do this please. thanks
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@villageanne (8553)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I am beginning knitting after years of not doing it. Could you please post the sites of the free patterns.
• United States
8 Jan 07
Check out the previous post. The link is great. It has many free patterns and also instructional clips.
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@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
7 Jan 07
A yarn over is just where you bring the yarn over the needle. So you might knit one, then bring the yarn around the needle from back to front, then knit the next stitch.
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• United States
7 Jan 07
Have you tried http://www.knittinghelp.com? Put YO in their search engine and go to the right page.
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• United States
8 Jan 07
Thank you for the link. I have been wanting to learn how to knit cables and needed an instructional video. I would still like to have someone actually show me, but maybe I can wing it.
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
17 Jan 07
Another site you might want to try would be www.lionbrand.com It will give you tutorials on chrocheting and knitting
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@shelagh77 (3643)
9 Jan 07
Hi there, is me again You have probably got the answer by now, but it is simply yarn over. I would need to see the line of pattern but I would guess that you wrap the yarn once round the needle and then when you come back on the next row you knit into the place you wrapped round, forming a hole in lacework? Hope that helps!
@Kowgirl (3490)
• United States
13 Jan 07
In the book I have a "yarn over" is a way of making an extra stitch on your needle. It creates a deliberate hole in your fabric. Bring the knitting yarn(the "over strand)over the needle between 2 existing stitches on one row, then work the "over" strand as a stitch when you work your way back to it in the next row. A "yarn over" is formed differently depending on the kinds of stitches it goes between. Knit and/or Purl. Between 2k,= k1, yo, k1...between 2 purl= p1, yo, p1. Most "y o"'s are done in purl position. Hope this helps.
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@CatEyes (2448)
• United States
17 Jan 07
YO means to yarn over; example, when you are sc (single chrochet) and want to do a dc (double crochet) you will take your yarn and put it over your hook so that when you go to make a stich you will have to make the first sitch in the YO part first then the second will be on the original yarn.
17 Jan 07
Thanks for the comment, but it was knitting that i was looking for. thanks
• United States
10 Oct 11
wow that sounds very confusing when i was taught to knit i was never taught to read a pattern so whenever i want to knit something i just have to make up a pattern off of the top of my head and follow that i knitted a sweater and did not follow a pattern and it still turned out really good i also knitted a sweater for my dog and that also turned out really awesome haha i want to eventually learn to read a pattern but i very seldom have the time to knit anymore to begin with besides just winging it is working fine for right now