EASILY KNIT VERTICAL STRIPES USING A CROCHET CHAIN
Hi guys I'm Kristen and
thank you for joining me here on studio knit you're going to love this really
easy hack to knit vertical stripes in a stockinette pattern so here is a clean
simple way that we're adding thin lines of colorful rows of knitting up our work
we're actually going to be using a crochet hook to duplicate stitch our
stripe into our knitting and you'll see how our knitted stripe is placed
perfectly within our knitted work because we created a little pearl Valley
right here and this knitting hack not only is making our work look flawless
but it's super simple so let's jump into it for your materials you'll want to use
yarn in the different colors that you choose just make sure it's the same
weight as your main piece of knitting right here I have bulky weight with size
10 knitting needles of course scissors and a tapestry needle and this time we
are adding in a crochet hook I'm going to add this video to a playlist all
about knitting stripes I have my best five tips for knitting horizontal
stripes as well as dogless stripes in the round I have another great trick for
you which is removing purl dash lines when you're changing your yarn color
knitting those horizontal stripes for different knit stitch patterns that
include both knits and pearls so you can mix and match these horizontal stripes
with today's vertical stripes for really cool patterns and I think a knitted
plaid piece would be really cool and if this video was helpful to you do me a
favor like it up it really helps me out so let's look at the traditional way of
knitting our thin vertical stripe every time you have a new yarn color you're
twisting and interlocking your yarn colors as you would intarsia you also
are carrying your yarn floats on the wrong side the back
side of your knitted piece and you can see that these yarn floats they use a
lot of extra yarn and you have to make sure that you're twisting the yarn for
each color change and personally that's not my favorite thing to do and this
finished piece is pretty thick with all of these yarn floats but you can see
that when we use the crochet chain to go up to add our vertical stripes on the
back that yarn just stays right there within that purl row and there are no
yarn floats and no extra yarn
starting with our main piece of knitting it looks like just a regular stockinette
but we actually are adding in these little pearl valleys I'm calling them
and that's just doing a little rip stitch and that is where we're going to
place our vertical stripes so that it lies flat within all of the rest of the
stitches and you can see in my example I added four little pearl valleys to add
our vertical stripes for the knitting itself of your main piece you can add
your vertical stripes of course anywhere you'd like let me just show you in this
sample here that how I created them is on the right side the front side of our
work I did four knit stitches and then right in the area where I wanted to add
the vertical stripe right in here I went ahead and I just did one purl stitch so
our yarn is in the front we're doing our purl stitch and then I'm just continuing
on with four more knit stitches and then one purl stitch all the way down the row
and now let's look at the wrong side or the back side of our work you can see
right here is that purl and we are going to begin by purling four stitches again
this is just the way that I did it you can create whatever sort of pattern
you'd like and after you do that purl stitches on the wrong side of your work
of course you want to switch it up and take that yarn to the back so that you
aren't knitting that one little area where your vertical stripe will be and
then just continue down your room now let's take a close look at exactly where
we are going to place our crochet hook so once our knitting is complete choose
one area of the vertical line and sort of stretch it apart and you'll see these
like ladders right there in your little pearl Valley and the very first stitch
and sometimes looking at the back side is helpful to to see exactly where you
need to put your crochet hook in it's pretty obvious that that's the middle
right in there and so the crochet hook is entering this
area so we're taking our yarn and we're just going to make a loop and we're
going to thread the loop itself through our tapestry needle but not all the way
through we want to keep it in loop form I'll call it and we'll take our tapestry
needle and put it right there through that hole that we established and we're
keeping the loop so that both of the yarn tails stay on the bottom right
there let's take our crochet hook and we're going to put it through that loop
and tighten the loop up then your crochet hook goes down through the next
hole so looking on the back we're taking the long tail of our yarn and we're
going to hook it and bring it right back up through that second hoop
then do it crochet chain which is just passing it through the first loop so
we're just going looked a loop-de-loop and lucky for us this looks exactly like
the stockinette stitch and we continue this all the way up so let's do it one
more time we are taking the crochet hook down through the next hole and then the
long yarn piece right there and we're bringing it right back up and then we're
going to sometimes I need to use my fingers we're going to pass it through
the first loop and you might want to adjust a little bit by sort of pulling
on your yarn tails just a bit you don't want it to be too tight and we just
continue this process all the way up to the top of your piece
and once you have little hole there at the top remaining
go ahead and remove the crochet hook and we're going to thread the loop through
our tapestry needle one more time
and just like in the beginning this helps bring that loop down through to
the other side of your knitting to the wrong side the backside of our work
and then we will just cut our yarn go ahead and thread your yarn through your
tapestry needle and then we're going to weave it through that loop and of course
you'll want to weave in both ends of your yarn color that made up the stripe
to secure it and then just repeat this process for
every little pearl Valley that you intend to add a vertical stripe to your
knitting I hope you are inspired to try this technique it's pretty fun and cool
to do something a little bit different than the traditional way of knitting
I also have a printable PDF in my knit stitch pattern book and that is
available for immediate download over on Etsy so go check that out if you're
interested in owning all of these knit stitch patterns there's over twenty four
of them in the book right now and I will see you next time guys bye