Stockinet

This is called stockinet when you do it at home by hand, knitting alternating rows of knit and purl stitches. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

The weave known as stockinet is best of all, because goods thus made cling to the body and yet restrict its activity very little. ❋ Marion Foster Washburne (N/A)

I've only fair isled once and the hat came out very tight where the colorwork was and way, way looser where there was only the solid color stockinet. ❋ The Raven (2006)

Reverse side of knitted sampler: From left to right, stockinet, rib knit, and plain knitting. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Front side of hand-knitted sampler: From left to right, plain knitting or garter stitch, rib knit, and stockinet. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

In hand knitting you make ribs by alternating a fixed number of knit and purl stitches, creating alternating columns of stockinet and garter stitch. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Close your studio door to all 'orders,' be they ever so tempting: if a fastidious world will have you make 'nude statues dressed in stockinet,' tell it to get behind you! ❋ Various (N/A)

Some day we will send our children with sweaters, leggings, stockinet caps, mittens, even in the cool days of spring and fall, to "open-air schools," and in the cool fresh air they will think better and work faster and make wonderful progress in both studies and appetites. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)