What does “yfwd” mean in a knitting pattern?

by Admin on December 11, 2008

knitting
mudd_puddle asked:

My model knitting read as follows: “row 3: yfwd, k2″ I ‘VE to read elsewhere that it’ the abbreviation of the British SA for yarn above, but it is the beginning of the model. I thought you could do only a yarn between two points above. You can make them at the beginning of a row? (if so, how? I ‘m the real has lost on this one)

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{ 2 comments }

KetzMe32 December 16, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Yarn over, forward

Knitmama December 18, 2008 at 9:02 pm

You can do a YO/YFWD at the beginning of a row; it’s a lace technique called (no laughing) faggoting. I’m referencing a magazine, but doing a YO isn’t exactly a copyright-able technique, so I think I’m good… just bring the yarn over the needle at the end of the previous row, turn, and then knit into the back of the loop, holding the yarn in place if necessary.

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