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I'm going to show you another stitch in the Fancy Stitch Combo series.
and this time it is Sideways Herringbone.
Or i've also seen it called horizontal herringbone.
i'm going to give you the instructions for working this stitch, its just two rows, it
will be in the video description below, as well as on my website.
and i normally also give you instructions for working any given stitch in the round.
i'll tell you this, this stitch, in the round, actually requires a pattern.
to get it to match up at the beginning of the row.
and i found a pattern that's already out there, i didn't need to write it myself.
Purl Soho, a yarn shop in new york has a blog, and they have a beautiful cowl pattern out
there that uses this stitch combo.
so if you're interested in making that cowl pattern, or just reducing the number of stitches
to do something smaller in the round, i'll give you a link to that pattern and you can
take a look on their website.
it is really pretty.
let's go ahead and take a look at the samples i have here.
this is a really bulky sample, knit out of acrylic yarn.
and the reason i used and acrylic yarn, is because this is the - this yarn is really
easy to see on camera.
i'm going to say, don't do this stitch out of acrylic yarn, it ends up being, having
no give to it.
or at least, most acrylic yarns aren't going to have the give of a wool yarn.
and it also, when i steamed it out, it really flattened it out.
but that's not really the acrylic yarn's fault.
that's my fault, for flattening it out.
the stitches aren't very puffy.
anyway, let me show you a better example.
here it is in a wool yarn.
it was much easier to work, but it is really tight.
which is cool looking.
you see, it looks like the Vs are going this way and this way.
in a sideways herringbone pattern.
it is very cool looking.
i didn't know until i worked up this sample that the stitch was going to be this tight.
so i used a size 10.5 needle with this chunky yarn, which is usually a perfect combination,
but it ended up being pretty tight in this sample.
i have more samples to show you to explain that.
and here is the back of the work.
it's almost a herringbone on the back of the work.
i'll tell you, this stitch does lie flat, unless your gauge is really tight, like this
one is, and then it kind of wants to do this.
don't ask me why.
it's a weird thing.
[cough[] excuse me.
now this is actually the perfect gauge for this.
and it is a worsted weight yarn, size 10.5 needles.
which is a much lighter weight yarn than this, but the same size needle.
and so it is the perfect gauge, it was much easier to work, the tight gauge is harder
to work.
but! if you're thinking of casting on for this stitch, keep this in mind!
whatever you cast on ends up being much much narrower than you think.
here is the example.
i cast on the exact same number of stitches for these two swatches.
i'm not kidding you.
this one's garter stitch, this one's sideways herringbone.
and look - is it half the size?
yes, it is half the width.
so whatever you cast on, and you see it on your needle, your finished sideways herringbone
is going to be half that size.
okay?
i make all these mistakes so you don't have to, right?
let's go ahead and get started on the pattern.
which is really simple.
it's only a couple of stitches, excuse me, worked over and over.
so the first thing i'm going to do, is, i've already worked a wrong side row, and i just
have a few cast on here.
because i want this to be the pretty side of my cast on.
i'm going to knit two together through the back loop.
so instead of going in like this to knit two together, i'm going to knit two together this
way.
[cough] excuse me.
i wrap the back needle and pull that stitch through.
and this is where you have to stop because it gets weird.
you only want to drop the first stitch off the left needle.
so it's a good idea to use your thumb or your first finger or whatever it takes to shove
that first stitch off, leaving that second stitch on there.
and then we're going to go right back to doing what we were doing.
i'm going to knit two together through the back loop.
pull that through, and then only drop the first stitch off the needle.
boop.
this is all you're going to do, all the way across.
if you're a continental knitter, you might need to use your middle finger to coax that
stitch off the end of the needle.
you see what i mean about this stitch being tight.
boop.
you do that all the way across the row, until you get to the last stitch, and then you just
knit that single stitch through the back loop.
so that is a right side row.
and you can see the herringbone pattern starting to emerge.
and then the wrong side row is really not that much different.
we're going to purl two together, normally.
and then only drop the first stitch off the needle.
just the first stitch.
a little hand strength is helpful with this stitch.
or it would be easier if I used bigger needles with this size of yarn, i guess.
all the way across the row.
until you get to the very last stitch.
and then you just purl it.
whoops, i dropped a stitch somewhere in there!
i will have to scoot back and pick that stitch up.
there we go!
and that's it - the horizontal or sideways herringbone.
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