🧵 Fiber Crafts Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Fiber Crafts trivia questions
Q1. Which basic stitch creates a smooth 'V' shape on the knit side?
Answer: Knit stitch
💡 A purl stitch is really just a knit stitch worked backward, making a little bump instead.
Q2. What's the knitting slang for ripping out and undoing your work?
Answer: Frogging
💡 The name is a pun: saying 'rip it, rip it' sounds like a frog's 'ribbit, ribbit.'
Q3. Which crochet stitch has almost no height and is used to join or move yarn?
Answer: Slip stitch
💡 It's also how crocheters seam granny squares together without adding any bulk.
Q4. What's the UK knitting term for what Americans call 'binding off'?
Answer: Cast-off
💡 It's the identical technique on both sides of the Atlantic — only the label differs.
Q5. Knitting every single row, both sides, produces which basic stitch?
Answer: Garter stitch
💡 Garter stitch lies flat and looks the same on both sides, unlike curling stockinette.
Q6. What's the stitches-per-inch measurement that sets a pattern's sizing?
Answer: Gauge
💡 Two knitters using identical yarn and needles can still knit completely different gauges.
Q7. Which needles come in a short set of four or five, pointed both ends?
Answer: Double-pointed needles
💡 Double-pointed needles let you knit a seamless tube too small to fit around a circular needle.
Q8. Combing raw fiber to align it before spinning is called what?
Answer: Carding
💡 Carded fiber comes out as a fluffy, aligned batt, ready to be drawn into roving.
Q9. Which cast-on is designed to be removed later, freeing live stitches?
Answer: Provisional cast-on
💡 Knitters often cast on over waste yarn so it unzips away cleanly when needed.
Q10. What H-shaped tool winds handspun yarn off a bobbin into a neat skein?
Answer: Niddy noddy
💡 Most niddy noddies are sized to wind about a two-yard loop with every wrap.
Q11. Which technique creates an eyelet hole, key to open lace knitting?
Answer: Yarn-over
💡 A yarn-over makes a new stitch with no base loop at all, which is what leaves the hole.
Q12. Fair Isle stranded knitting traditionally comes from which islands?
Answer: The Shetland Islands
💡 Fair Isle sweaters boomed in popularity after the Prince of Wales wore one in public in 1921.
Q13. Knitting a small tube on one long circular needle is called what?
Answer: The magic loop method
💡 Magic loop works by pulling a long loop of extra cable through the middle of the round.
Q14. Which crochet stitch stands about twice as tall as a single crochet?
Answer: Double crochet
💡 Double crochet starts with a yarn-over before the hook even goes into the stitch.
Q15. Which crochet motif is worked in rounds outward from its center?
Answer: The granny square
💡 Granny squares use just three stitches: chain, double crochet, and slip stitch.
Q16. A loosely coiled ring of yarn, twisted on itself, is called what?
Answer: A hank
💡 A hank has to be wound into a ball first, since knitting straight from one tangles instantly.
Q17. Which yarn-weight category is thinnest: lace, worsted, or bulky?
Answer: Lace weight
💡 The standard system numbers yarn weights 0 through 7, from lace up to jumbo.
Q18. What two-strand technique is the most common knitting cast-on?
Answer: Long-tail cast-on
💡 It works both strands of yarn together in one motion, combining a loop and a stitch.
Q19. Which shaping technique knits only part of a row, then turns back early?
Answer: Short rows
💡 Short rows are how sock heels get their curved turn without a single seam.
Q20. What grafting technique seamlessly joins two rows of live knit stitches?
Answer: Kitchener stitch
💡 It's named for Lord Kitchener, tied to WWI efforts to give soldiers seamless, blister-free sock toes.
Q21. In weaving, what's the gap between raised and lowered warp threads called?
Answer: The shed
💡 Which threads sit up or down changes after every single pass of the shuttle.
Q22. What's the self-finished woven edge that won't fray or unravel on its own?
Answer: Selvedge
💡 Selvedge is a worn-down form of 'self-edge,' a word used since at least the 1500s.
Q23. What's the frame that holds bobbins steady while a spinner plies yarn?
Answer: Lazy kate
💡 Most lazy kates hold two to four bobbins at once, enough for a 2-ply or 4-ply yarn.
Q24. What's the yarn-thickness measurement made by wrapping it around a ruler?
Answer: Wraps per inch
💡 Lace-weight yarn wraps 30-40 times per inch; jumbo yarn wraps just 1-4 times.
Q25. What two-pronged forked tool braids cord using a figure-eight motion?
Answer: Lucet
💡 Bone lucets dating to the Viking Age have turned up at dig sites in Sweden and England.
Q26. Macrame plant hangers were a defining decor trend of which decade?
Answer: The 1970s
💡 Macrame's square knot is the same knot sailors called 'square knotting' back in the 1700s.
Q27. Aran sweaters' cable-stitch patterns traditionally symbolize what?
Answer: Fishermen's ropes
💡 Some Aran sweaters took up to two months to knit and used around 100,000 stitches.
Q28. Crossing stitches to make a twisted rope pattern uses which tool?
Answer: A cable needle
💡 A cable needle just holds stitches aside temporarily while you knit past them out of order.
Q29. Small Japanese crocheted or knitted stuffed creatures are called what?
Answer: Amigurumi
💡 Amigurumi blends 'ami' (knitted or crocheted) with 'nuigurumi,' meaning stuffed doll.
Q30. What's carded, unspun fiber pulled into a loose ribbon called?
Answer: Roving
💡 Roving still has fibers running roughly parallel, ready to be twisted into yarn.
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