stitch pattern

Knitting lace with traveling repeats

This week we have been using Cotton True Sport by Fibra Natura to knit a lace pattern that has traveling repeats. In previous posts we looked at the elements of increases and decreases. Today, those elements come together. If you normally knit from lace charts, you’ll be familiar with the red…

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Try this ribbing to edge your knitted sweaters

Today we continue our exploration of ways to change a stitch pattern. Yesterday we looked at inserting a column of garter st to create a neatly reversible and almost mirror image stitch pattern. Today, we’ll try adding a column of knit stitches between each pattern repeat to create a ribbing…

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Come over to the purl side!

Today we’ll continue our series on how, when, and why to change stitch patterns. We’ll continue to use the wisteria stitch pattern as our starting off point. The first way to change a stitch pattern is to replace knit stitches with purl stitches, and vice-versa. Naturally, we don’t want to…

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