Knitted fabric, depending on the yarn and knitting pattern, knitted garments can stretch as much as 500. For this reason, knitting is believed to have been developed for garments that must be elastic or stretch in response to the wearer's motions, such as socks and ho-seering. During knitting, the active stitches are secured mechanically, either from individual hooks or from a knitting needle or frame-in-hand knitting. Fabrics in which the number of knit and purl stitches are not the same, such as stocking and stocking stitch, have a tendency to curl. I contrast, bows in which knit and purl stitches are arranged, symmetrically tend to life-lad and drape well. Edges are introduced within a knitted fabric for buttonholes, pockets for decoration, I bend in casting off and recasting on again, or by knitting the fabrics on either side of an edge separately. Lace knitting consists of making patterns and pictures using holes in the knit fabric, rather than with the stitches themselves. Separately knitted tubes can be applied to a knitted fabric to form complex kelset knots and other patterns that would be difficult to knit. The most common texture for a knitted garment is that generated by the flat stocking stitch you see, though very small, in machine-made stockings and t-shirts which is worked in the round as nothing but knit stitches, and worked flat as alternating rows of knit and purl. Knitting knitting machine basic knitted fabrics, jersey plated fabric, 61X65 for a stint.