[lojban-beginners] Knitting

[Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com>]

Sorry for the multiple emails in a short span of time, but when I have lojban questions, they tend to come in bursts.

{nivji} is the word for the act of knitting; e.g. {mi mo'u nivji lo nivycreka} for "I finished knitting a sweater." (or will finish, or once long ago finished, etc.)

But what word describes a knitting needle?  Is it a {nivji jesni}?  In Russian, there is a unique root for "knitting needle" that has nothing to do with "needle" (although crocheting is "knitting with a hook")?

How should "Right side" and "Wrong side" be described?  Right side refers to the side of the material that is intended to be seen when the {selnivji} is complete.  Wrong side refers to the side which is not intended to be seen.  Double-knitted projects [can be said to] have two right sides and no wrong side.

What words are used to mean "knit" and "purl" in the sense of the two stitches?  In Russian they're called (loosely translated, of course) "face side thingy" and "wrong side thingy"

What word should be used to describe the little loops that form over a needle?  In English they're also called stitches (and so are the arrangements of knit/purl that form patterns, with such names as stockinette, garter, ribbing, seed/moss; granted, Russian only has a name for "ribbing"), but in Russian they're called loops.

Anyone here with a passion for knitting and much more lojban experience than me?

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          Alex R

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