slipstitch

Etymology

From slip + stitch.

slipstitch means a kind of stitch that is passed from the left needle to the right needle without being knitted. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

a kind of stitch that is passed from the left needle to the right needle without being knitted
a stitch used to connect different parts of a work, achieved by pulling the thread through two non-adjacent loops