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Cryptic Stitches and Vintage Knitting Secrets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Less-known term for a slipped stitch creating texture ripples
  • 2. Mechanical pattern technique allowing swift repetitive motifs in silk
  • 3. Delicate, net-like structures crafted by intertwining yarns
  • 6. Obscure cast-on named for shaping a horseshoe's fit
  • 7. One-sided loop construction that twists the mind and the yarn
  • 10. Interlaced latticework fabric technique — patchwork illusion in yarn form
  • 14. Gradually decreasing color or stitch density towards pattern’s end
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  • 4. Deceptive blending stitch mimicking a heavyweight wool texture
  • 5. Difficult stitch where purled loops are doubled to create density
  • 8. Luxurious lofty stitch that doubles yarn in a cloudlike hug
  • 9. Seamless grafting method hiding joins like a cryptic suture
  • 11. Japanese twisted stitch’s Germanic cousin, ripe with layers and depth
  • 12. Knitting in the round with spiraled edges, avoiding hems
  • 13. Twisted groups of stitches resembling ancient rope braids
  • 15. Complex colorwork named for a loom inventor’s coded punch cards
  • 16. Tiny bobble-like stitch; not quite a full cluster in texture
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