Spring! (free stitch pattern)
It has certainly been a while. I got sidetracked, and then I felt abashed, but now I have a backlog of things I’ve been meaning to write about. (The problem is never a shortage of material!)
Anyway, I’m in the midst of writing a stitch dictionary, among other things, and I was getting fed up with not being able to share any of the things I was doing. So I decided to make something that’s not going in the stitch dictionary and share it with you.
I used my secret code techniques to lay the word Spring out on several different grids, and ended up liking this one a lot. I made one lace design from it and also a stranded knitting chart. The stranded chart is mirrored vertically as well as horizontally. The lace one has an extra column down the middle and on each side; this avoids a double yarn over. I dote on double yarn overs, but I know that not everyone is comfortable with them.
Happy Spring!
Spring (stranded)
multiple of 10 + 1 stitches and 10 + 1 rounds.
Round 1: Work knit as follows; *1 CC, 1 MC, 1 CC, 5 MC, 1 CC, 1 MC; work from *, 1 CC.
Round 2: Work knit as follows; *(3 MC, 1 CC) x 2, 2 MC; work from *, 1 MC.
Round 3: Work knit as follows; *1 CC, 3 MC, 1 CC, 1 MC, 1 CC, 3 MC; work from *, 1 CC.
Round 4: Work knit as follows; *3 MC, (1 CC, 1 MC ) x 2, 1 CC, 2 MC; work from *, 1 MC.
Round 5: Work knit as follows; *(2 MC, 1 CC) x 3, 1 MC; work from *, 1 MC.
Round 6: Work knit as follows; *(1 MC, 1 CC) x 5; work from *, 1 MC.
Round 7: Work knit as follows; repeat round 5.
Round 8: Work knit as follows; repeat round 4.
Round 9: Work knit as follows; repeat round 3.
Round 10: Work knit as follows; repeat round 2.
Repeat rounds 1-10 as desired, ending with round 1.
Notes:
- This is a stitch pattern such as might be found in a stitch dictionary. It is not a pattern for a finished object. You will need to add selvedges or some other form of knitted stitches to either side.
- Spring is a multiple of 14+1 stitches and 12 rows.
- I’ve made a stitch map for it.
- Designers, please feel free to use this stitch in your patterns. I’d like credit but won’t be offended if people don’t give it.
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Abbreviations:
- CDD: centered double decrease: slip the next 2 stitches as if to knit 2 together, knit the next stitch, then pass the 2 slipped stitches over the third.
- k: knit.
- kb: place bead on stitch, then knit.
- k2tog: knit 2 stitches together as if they were 1. (Right-leaning decrease)
- k3tog: knit 3 stitches together as if they were 1. (Right-leaning double decrease)
- p: purl.
- ssk: slip each of the next 2 stitches as if to knit, then knit them together through the back loop. (Left-leaning decrease)
- sssk: slip each of the next 3 stitches as if to knit, then knit them together through the back loop. (Left-leaning double decrease.)
- yo: yarnover.
Round 1: *p1, yo, kb, yo, cdd, k5, cdd, yo, kb, yo; work from *, p1.
Round 2 and all even-numbered rounds: *p1, k13; work from *, p1.
Round 3: *p1, k3, yo, ssk, k3, k2tog, yo, k3; work from *, p1.
Round 5: *p1, yo, k2, ssk, yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, k2tog, k2, yo; work from *, p1.
Round 7: *p1, k2, k2tog, yo, kb, yo, cdd, yo, kb, yo, ssk, k2; work from *, p1.
Round 9: *p1, k1, cdd, yo, k2, yo, kb, yo, k2, yo, cdd, k; work from *, p1.
Round 11: *p1, cdd, yo, kb, yo, k1, yo, cdd, yo, k1, yo, kb, yo, cdd; work from *, p1.
(Note that I only worked one repeat with a bunch of extra reverse stockinette on each side.)
Note: the instructions are written for in the round; make sure to swap the knits and purls on even-numbered rows if working flat.
…and if Spring is here, can Summer be far behind?
These are beautiful!
Thank you!
Can one make the lace one without the beads or are they an intrinsic part? I am not so much a Bead Person >.>
Beads are entirely optional. I put them in because there’s not always a good place for them in my stitch patterns, and I wanted to show the possibility for those who like them.