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The knitting basket

A skein of wool, a pair of needles and a scarf in progress fill the knitting basket. The vocabulary moves between the materials and the work itself, with knit, purl and gauge among the terms to find.

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KNIT starts with a silent K; PURL sounds like pearl but has a different spelling.

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