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This week�s Fancy Stitch Combo is the Blackberry Stitch.
And I was really excited about this stitch, because I had never done it before, until
someone asked me to do a video on it.
I didn�t know there was a stitch this cool.
It does make a blackberry texture, it creates a flat fabric that�s appropriate for dishcloths,
scarves, whatever else you want to use it for.
Let�s go ahead and take a look at it.
You see how cool this looks? It actually looks like blackberries.
And one of the things I like about this is the texture of the stitch actually runs off
the sides of the work.
And here�s the wrong side. It�s also very pretty.
I was so excited after working this and seeing how the edges looked, you don�t even need
to do an edging on this!
It�s already there!
I wanted to work this in a blackberry color, and so I started a dishcloth here out of blackberry
yarn. A blackberry color � because blackberries are a food, and here is a dishcloth for the
kitchen, out of the blackberry stitch, with the texture running off the sides.
And this is a cotton yarn, so it�s not nearly as fuzzy as the wool yarn I just showed you.
So the pattern does stand out a bit more.
And here�s the back of the stitch.
The instructions for working this stitch is in the video description below, as well as
on my website.
And to get going we�re going to use the long tail cast on.
And I�ll give you a link here to the long tail cast on if you need a review of it.
An then the first row, the right side row, is just purling all of the stitches.
I know this seems backwards.
All of the action in this stitch is on the wrong side rows, and the right side rows are
purling.
Seems totally backwards.
So what I�ve done is I�ve cast on, and I�ve worked the first row, which was purling,
and now I�m ready to go on to Row 2.
I�m going to purl three together.
Purling is normally just one stitch, purling two together is something we see often.
We don�t often see purling three together, but that�s what we�re going to do.
This is what makes the little blackberry bump on the work.
I�m trying to use blackberry colored yarn here too, but [laughs] it might not be as
close as the other one.
Now I�m going to pull the yarn back between the two needles.
I�m going to work three stitches into this next stitch.
I�m going to knit one. Leave that stitch on the needle.
Then I�m going to go into there and purl one. Leave that stitch on the needle.
Then I�m going to yarn back again and knit that stitch through the back loop.
Don�t worry, I�m going to show you that plenty more times.
Then I go back to the first part of the combination. That was the whole combination. Which was
purling three together.
So I yarn forward.
Purl three together.
And then I�m going to work the knit 1, purl 1, knit through the back loop again.
So I knit one stitch, yarn forward, do a normal purl stitch in that same stitch, yarn back,
to do a knit through the back loop which is back here.
Then you can pull that stitch off the left needle.
I go back to purling three together. Yarn forward.
Purl three together.
That�s probably the hardest part of this. To get the purl three togethers all off the
needle at the same time.
Then I�m going to knit front � knit, purl, and knit through the back loop.
Knit, yarn forward to purl, yarn back to knit through the back loop.
Okay, one more time here.
Yarn forward to purl three together.
Then yarn back to knit, purl, and knit into the back loop.
There�s the first row. This is the wrong side of the work, remember.
And the blackberries are already starting to appear on the right side of the work.
This is a four row repeat, with all of the work being on the wrong side of the fabric,
like I said.
So Rows 2 and 4 are your action rows.
They�re slightly different, the technique is the same, just the way the stitches are
arranged is slightly different to give us the staggered blackberry look, I guess. [laughs]
Uhhh, you will always have the same stitch count.
Even though you�re doing purl three together, which is a two stitch decrease, the next stitch,
the knit, purl, knit into the back loop is a two stitch increase.
So if ever you feel like you�re off track, just remember the number you cast on, and
make sure that number is always the same.
Good luck.
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