I am knitting a tiny scarf using a pattern written in Lithuanian. I am still at the beginning:
This pattern can be found in the following link:
https://mezgimozona.lt/modeliai
Its name is "Vaflinė skarelė", and it is proving to be a challenge, because it is written in a language that is completely new to me. Google Translate does a reasonably good job of translating knitting patterns. I say this because it doesn't understand abbreviations very well. I had some difficulty understanding the meaning of some of the abbreviations, so I thought that a post like this one could be helpful to other knitters, when they come across a pattern in Lithuanian for the first time.
Well, the first noun I will teach you is "the knitting": mezgimo.
And the verb "to knit" is: megzti
You can learn to conjugate this verb in this link:
https://cooljugator.com/lt/megzti
The most common abbreviations
a is the abbreviated form of the word "Akis", that means eye. However, in the context of knitting, it means "stitch".
g is the abbreviated form of the word "Gera Akis". It means "knit stitch"
i is the abbreviated form of the word "Išvirkščia Akis". It means "purl stitch"
u is the abbreviated form of the word "Užmetimas". It means "yarn over"
2kgk 2 stitches are knitted together, to the left (ssk: slip, slip, knit)
2kgd 2 stitches are knitted together, to the right (k2tog)
pg is the abbreviated form of the word "Pridéti". It means "to add, to increase" (add a stitch by lifting the yarn through the stitches of the previous row and knitting it)
k (lowercase) is the abbreviated form of the word "kartus". It means "times"
K (uppercase) is the abbreviated form of the word "kraštas". It means "edge".
The rows
1 eilė Row 1
2 ir 3 eilės Rows 2 and 3
Youtube
There are 40 short videos in this playlist, where the (lithuanian) knitter teaches us the main techniques and stitches:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhjeCSdrTr4tT0IlrCBz9fJL2h_JHNGu
Laimingo mezgimo!
And that's it, good luck reading lithuanian knitting patterns. The internet has many stunning patterns written in this beautiful language.
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