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This is meant as a quick crash course in learning to cast on, knit and pearl. When you finish this tutorial, you'll have a nice scarf with a plain pattern and you'll gets lots of practice knitting and pearling. I used two balls of Jo Sharp's DK Silkroad Tweed in Serpentine. The finished image at the end is the same pattern/yarn, but in Emerald. It is such a nice yarn to work with, 85% wool, 10% silk, 5% cashmere. I used 6mm bamboo needles. So on with the pattern. CO (cast on) 25 stitches Knit 10 rows garter stitch (knit every row) Knit 10 rows stockinette stitch (purl every other row, knit every other row) Repeat these 20 rows until there is about a yard of yarn left, then BO (bind off) |
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 1. Make a loop knot with a short tail around the needle. |
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 2. Poke the second needle through the loop. |
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 3. Wrap the yarn around the second needle. |
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 4. Pull the yarn under the first needle and you've created another loop. |
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 5. Slide the new loop on to the first needle. |
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 6. Now, do that 24 more times, for a total of 25 stitches. |
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 7. Once you have 25 stitches on the needle, you knit 10 rows. Some people use counters, I just make a tally on a scrap of paper. To knit, poke the needle through the first loop, so the needle is behind the stitch. |
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 8. Wrap the yarn around the needle, the same as #3. |
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 9. Slip the loop on to the other needle and voila! You've knit a stitch. |
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 10. Knit 10 rows. |
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 11. Now you knit 10 rows in stockinette stitch. Stockinette stitch is done by alternating between knitting a row and pearling a row. To make a pearl stitch, poke the needle through the first stitch, so the needle is in front of the stitch. |
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 12. Wrap the yarn around the back of the needle, and pull through same as a knit stitch. |
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 13. This pic doesn't help that much, but there will be a little bump of a stitch there, that's the pearl, pearl the row. The next row will be knitted to create the stockinette stitch. |
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 14. Alternate for 10 rows. Repeat steps 10 & 14 until there's about a yard left. Bind off. (pics to come) |
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 When it's finished it'll resemble this. |
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