So basically, ribbing stitches are like the cool cats of knitting. No, seriously! You might think that ribbing is a little boring (right up there with plain old garter or stockinette) but there ...

The team performed experiments with a Jersey stitch knit (aka a stockinette), a widely used and simple knit consisting of a single yarn (in this case, a nylon thread) forming interlocked loops.

(Steve Hamm / Special Contributor) The technical terms were flying at Knit Dallas’s crafter-noon on a recent Sunday — “stockinette ... demonstrating a new stitch for her toolbox of talent.

To learn more, they conducted experiments using a nylon yarn and a well-known Jersey knit stitch called the stockinette—a technique that involves forming interlocked loops using knitting needles.