Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hi there! This is Ray whiting
and I'm going to show you a pattern that I call peppercorns
This probably has
lot of other different names but when I
discovered it on my own it looked like a little tiny
peppercorns as they were coming up and turning up in the different locations
here
So that's what I call it. You can call it whatever you want
The way that I make it, it would appear that you
are knitting
stranded and simply knitting a dark over
a light but that's not how I do it.
So I let me finish up this row or
this round and then I will show you
how to create the peppercorns.
Now you're going to want to work, or
the way that I work this is on a multiple of four
so that as I make them
I have peppercorn
and then down four rows and over two in either direction
so that they're always in a
consistent pattern. If you want to
maybe bring them closer together and have
just diagonals or dots in either direction, that's fine, too.
But I'm going to show you the way that I do them and leave it up to you to
modify. Now we've got one here, this is my end-of-around
so we have one peppercorn here and one here so the next one needs to be
right in the middle at the fourth stitch.
We've got our yarn all ready to go here
and when I do this I i carry the contrast or the peppercorn yarn in my
left hand
and the regular yarn in my right hand
or the main yarn in my right hand and I'll show you why in a moment.
I'm going to knit one and
knit another but I'm going to capture the contrast yarn in the back
so that I don't have a long
yarn floats in the back
there's 1, 2, 3, and
4, and then I come down here and pull up
this this yarn did the bar in between
I bring it up and over and I knit into the back of it
so that the the bar is twisted and pull-up
the first stitch up the peppercorn.
Then I knit 1, then
knit 2 and I catch the contrast yarn
3
and 4.
Then we do it again we bring it up
we
into the back of it, we twist it at the back it with the black
(I guess that's charcoal ...) anyway, the popcorn color.
Then we knit and capture the other yarn
Knit. Knit.
and I'll do one more and then I'll work it and I'll show you
in just a moment how I do the second round
because that's that's where the peppercorn sticks up.
You lift it up ...
You knit into the back if we can get it ... usually I go this way
and bring it around so that the bar is twisted
and we lift up a knit stitch through it.
Capture the yarn... 3
and four.
I'm going to pause at this point and finish this round.
When I come back here I will
pick it up with you again, so I'll see you in just a little while.
Okay, so now we're back at the
on the second round and
I've already gone past the end-of-round; I started this video
over here and I worked all of this and explained all of this and I realized
that my mute button was on and nothing was being recorded!
So, I cut that part out, and now I pick it up again.
In the previous round we'll we lifted
the bar twisted it and made a knit stitch.
Now we're going to bring our contrast yarn forward
and make a purl stitch right there.
Take the yarn back and then
1, 2,
and on the second round up this pattern
I'm capturing on the third stitch
so I don't have all of my floats stacked in one place on the backside.
I'll show that in just a moment. That's 3,
4, and contrast yarn forward
make a peppercorn a purl, take the yarn back
and if you're knitting too
firmly
what I found is that you can take your thumb
on this stitch right here that you just made contrast
and pull it down we make a next couple stitches
that helps to ensure
extra yarn in the pattern
[ pause...] pardon me there, I had to cough
Alright, we the pull this down
to make extra space make sure you have enough yarn so that you're not
causing puckers as you knit.
So there's 3 (catch it)
4
and bring the yarn forward to make a purl and go back
and pull this down.
(oops, get some extra yarn here so I can work
And 1,
2,
3 catch it and
4, and then you continue around making up a purl
into all of the peppercorns that you made earlier
And now I'm going to pause it again and then the next round
the third row the pattern show you how to close it so that
these peppercorns are disappeared. I'll be back in just a moment.
Okay so we're
almost done with this round and I've purled most of my peppercorns
and we'll just finish this up and move to the next
round, so we've got popcorn, and 1
2, 3 capture
contrast, go back ... 4
(yarn is not cooperating here) . Pardon me.
Alright... then we make
this little peppercorn stand-up, bring it back,
then in 1, 2, 3,
capture, 4.
and we finished the round with the peppercorn.
Pass stitch marker
and we know that the next time we want to
create a peppercorn according to this sequence
would be in the second space over. So we're going to have a couple of rounds not
knitting any contrast yarn at all.
So, we're going to
knit 1, then knti 1 but capture
and we can drop the contrast yarn
entirely because we're not going to need it
in this round or the next round but we've caught it
under the place that we're going to next need it. Then we knit,
knit ... and you can either do a
slip-slip-knit
or you can do
a knit-two-together.
In either situation
what you're doing is you're tucking the top the peppercorn
into the back behind the other stitches,
so that in the subsequent rounds you not going to see very much of it. Mot of what you will see
will be this
the purl crown the peppercorn. That's what's going to stick up
it's going to look like a either peppercorn
or maybe a clove like a stick into a ham
in neat little pattern but
simply knitted around
I'd I've got used to the it together
but whatever way for you is most easy
that's the way the you need to do it. Come on around
andyour next round will be completely knit
and a the fourth round is completely knit and again
this is a
stitch pattern or stitch technique that you can apply to
almost any pattern. It is easier for me to work in the round
because the second round as you come back you'd be
purling or knitting to the front side.
You'd be purling all your plain stitches and
knitting the contrast stitch and for me it's just easier to capture and knit all around.
But it can be done knitting
on the backside; but you see here how
captures are not all stacked
straight up on top and that's why I
capture on the second stitch two first-round and capture on the third
stitch. like right here you can see a captured it on the
third stitch for the second round..
Anyway that's how you do peppercorns stitch,
the "Knitterman" method. There's probably
many other methods out there but this is the way that I do it
and it could be
when you've
got little black things like that you could call it peppercorns
or if you're knitting on a baby blanket got a bright pastel pink and a
deep navy blue for baby green or
whatever maybe you don't want to call it peppercorns you can call them bubbles or
what ever you want.
The key is that you want to have sharp contrast between
the background field and the peppercorns
So that they're really really visible and they stand out.
Anyway I hope you enjoy it and I apologize for my raspy voice
and monotone texture.
This is my first how-to video, so I help it helps you
with your knitting if nothing else and I shall talk to you the next time.
Talk to ya later. Bye!