Beginner's Guide to Colorwork Knitting by Ella Austin

Author:Ella Austin [Austin, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: David & Charles

Finishing

Block shawl (see Finishing: Blocking). If you would like to enhance the picot cast off, pin each picot out when blocking.

Weave in all ends.

Note

Use stitch markers to mark each side of the central stitch. After placing markers, simply slip them as you come to them, always keeping them on each side of the central stitch.

Tutorial 10: Thorn stitch

It’s important to remember that when slipping stitches we slip them ‘purlwise’ as if we were going to purl the stitch. This is because slipping the stitches ‘knitwise’ would twist the stitch. Refer to the slipping stitches tutorial (see Tutorial 7: Slipping stitches) for more information on ‘front’ and ‘back’ of your knitting and for an explanation of ‘right side’ and ‘wrong side’.

The thorn stitch pattern is worked with an eight row repeat over a multiple of 4 stitches, plus 1 stitch. To knit a swatch for this fabric you need to cast on a number of stitches that is a multiple of 4 plus an extra stitch (33 stitches should be enough to test the tension and practise the pattern). For your swatch, cast on using Yarn A.

To work the instructions ‘KYOK’, or K1, YO, K1 all into the next stitch, you need to knit into the stitch without sliding it off of the needle, work a yarn over around the right-hand needle, and then knit into the same stitch again, this time sliding it off of the needle. This is a double increase and will result in two extra stitches being made.

Row 1 (RS): Using Yarn A, k2, (KYOK (image 1), k3) to last 3 sts, KYOK, k2.

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