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This week in the Fancy Stitch Combo Series, I'm going to show you how to do the Feather
and Fan stitch.
This is a really popular, traditional stitch that you'll see all over the place.
People use it in scarves, people use it in blankets.
You also see it a lot at the bottom of sweaters or dresses, or something, because it is really
decorative.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the stitch.
This is a really big sample of feather and fan.
You see we have this roller coaster going, and we have increases and decreases that create
this.
And this sample is so big because this is actually worked over a multiple of 18 stitches.
And I two repeats of the pattern here.
And the back of the work isn't much to look at.
Uh, it's not bad, but there is definitely a front and back to the work.
And the looser gauge you use with this, meaning bigger needles smaller yarn, the flatter the
fabric will be.
You'll get a little bit of curling if you use bigger yarn, smaller needles.
Here it is in very different yarn.
This was knit with very different yarn, in size 4 needles.
And I changed color after every Row 2 of the pattern.
And the reason I did that is because we have these purl bumps here.
And I wanted the color, the new color to kind of grow out of the purl bumps, which I've
done.
And it also looks like each color is lying on top of the color below it.
Above it, I guess.
And here is the back of it here.
Okay so this is worked on a multiple of 18 stitches.
And the instructions for this will be in the video description below, as well as on my
website.
It's a four row repeat, and to get started, I cast on with a long tail cast on.
And then I purled a row. And the reason for that -- I always do that, because this side
of the cast on is prettier than the other side, and I want this to be the right side
of my work.
The setup row was to purl the first row.
Okay.
First thing I'm going to do, whoops, is to knit two together, three times.
So, knit two together once, twice, three times.
Now I'm going to work knit one, yarn over. That combination, six times.
So knit one, pull the yarn forward between the two needles, that's one.
Knit one, pull the yarn forward between the two needles. Two.
How did I lose count already? Okay.
That's three.
Knit one, yarn forward, four.
Knit one, yarn forward, five.
Knit one, yarn forward, six.
Let's make sure.
One, two, three, four, five, six. Right.
And then I go back to knitting two together, three times.
Really, so simple. For such a cool effect.
Okay, that was the action row.
Everything else, the other three rows in this, are really simple.
Row 2 is knitting across all stitches, which gives us the purl bumps on the right side
of the work.
Row 3 is also knitting across all stitches, and then Row 4 is purling the stitches.
I'm getting myself back to the right side of this work, because I want to show you how
to work Row 1 again, how to work the action row again.
And this is just one repeat of the pattern. I just have 18 stitches cast on here.
So I'm going to skip Rows 3 and 4 and go right back to Row 1 so I can show you how to work
this again.
Knit two together once, knit two together twice, and three times.
And this gives us the down slope of the roller coaster.
And then we do the increases.
Which is knit one, yarn over, once.
Knit one, pull the yarn forward between the two needles to yarn over, twice.
Three, four, five, six.
And then I'm going to knit two together three times again.
Okay, so I've worked the action row twice there, and you get the idea.
When you're finished working this stitch, you're going to want to bind off on Row 2
for the nicest effect when you finish the work.
And I think you just bind off knit wise -- yep, just bind off knit wise on Row 2.
Now that you know how to work this stitch, I'm sure you'll find plenty of places where
you can add it to something simple to make it more special.
Good luck.
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