Glossary
The words used in Row & Round and on this site, each explained in a sentence.
- Chart
- A grid where each square is a stitch or a colour, read row by row instead of written out.
- Colourwork
- Knitting with two or more colours in a row to make a pattern, usually worked from a chart.
- Highlighter bar
- The coloured band in Row & Round that sits on the row you’re working and moves with each +1.
- Linked counter
- A counter that goes back to 1 each time the counter it is linked to counts up, used for rows inside a repeat.
- Repeat
- A set of rows or stitches a pattern tells you to work again, such as “repeat rows 3 to 10 six times”.
- Round (Rnd)
- One full circle of stitches when knitting in the round or crocheting in rounds.
- Row
- One pass of stitches across flat knitting or crochet, from one edge to the other.
- RS and WS
- Right side and wrong side: the side of the work facing you on a row, shown on the bar in Row & Round.