Centre-Tab Start for a Shawl in Double-Knitting — A Sockmatician Tutorial @Sockmatician

Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

This technique is the equivalent of a garter-tab start, in single-layered knitting, but because there is no garter stitch in use here, it needed another name!

It is used for centre-out triangular shawls, and is very handy indeed.

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