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Stitch holders are tools that are used in knitting to hold open stitches when not being used by the needles. The two most common types of stitch markers are locking and ring.

They are commonly used when finishing a side of an item, such as a sweater, and preparing for the kitchener stitch. They can be used on stitches separated from the needle when splitting the piece. For example, when shaping the neckhole of a sweater, the stitch holder is placed on the group of stitches used to make the neckhole, and the needles are used to continue to make the stitches on either side. Stitch holders are also used at the ends of sleeves of a sweater before they are attached to the body of the sweater.

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Styles	Circular Combined Continental English Flat Norwegian Warp
Stitches	Stockinette/Stocking stitch Garter Decrease Dip stitch Elongated stitch Increase Loop knitting Plaited stitch Yarn over
Techniques	Arm knitting Basketweave Bead knitting Bias knitting Binding/Casting off Bobble Brioche knitting Buttonhole Cables Casting on Double knitting Drop-stitch knitting Entrelac Faggoting Finger knitting Gather Gauge Grafting Hand knitting Hemming Illusion knitting Lace Medallion knitting Picking up stitches Pleat Ribbing Short row Slip-stitch knitting Spool knitting Steek Three needle bindoff Thrumming Tuck Twined Weaving Welting
Patterns	Aran Argyle Fair Isle Intarsia
Machine knitting	Complete garment knitting Fully fashioned knitting Knitting machine Knitting Nancy Stocking frame William Lee (inventor)
Knitters and designers	Sam Barsky Nicky Epstein Kaffe Fassett Marianne Kinzel Frances Lambert Herbert Niebling Shannon Okey Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Alice Starmore Debbie Stoller Meg Swansen Barbara G. Walker Elizabeth Zimmermann
Organizations	I Knit London Knitta Knitting clubs Knitty Ravelry Revolutionary Knitting Circle Stitch 'n Bitch UK Hand Knitting Association World Wide Knit in Public Day The Knitting Guild Association
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