garter stitch

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   a knitting stitch that results in a pattern of horizontal ridges formed by knitting both sides (instead of purling one side)

   Broaderknitting stitch

Questions about garter stitch

What does garter stitch mean?

garter stitch means "a knitting stitch that results in a pattern of horizontal ridges formed by knitting both sides (instead of purling one side)".

Is garter stitch a common word?

garter stitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.