wisteria stitch pattern

Today we end our travels through making changes to a stitch pattern. We’ve tried switching out knits for purls and vice versa, we’ve tried adding stitches in between motif repeats. Now we’ll look at adding shaping between motif repeats. In the swatch above you can see the right side of…

When a stitch pattern seems compact to you, or you don’t want an all-over effect, it’s a good time to add stitches to your knitting. The logical place to do so is in between the pattern repeats. In the above swatch, I added a stitch between each 5-stitch pattern repeat.…

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…

Stitch dictionaries abound, and you can always find a new idea for a stitch pattern on Pinterest or with a Google search, but sometimes, you just may not want to use the stitch pattern that you’ve found as is. You want to change the stitch pattern a wee bit, but…