[Kristen]- Drop stitches add such a beautiful interest
in your pattern and this sea foam stitch
is a garter stitch pattern that uses drop stitches
of varying heights to create rippling waves.
We'll go from solid, to a two tone, and back again.
I'm gonna demonstrate how to make the sea foam stitch,
and you can work it to create
this infinity scarf right here.
This is the Coral Breezes infinity scarf today
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For the sea foam stitch you're going to need
needles and appropriate gauge yarn.
We're working with a US 10 or 6mm needle,
and a medium weight 4 yarn.
I'm working with Red Heart Chic Sheep,
you're going to need two contrasting colors,
and so you'll also need a pair of scissors,
and a tapestry needle for weaving in the tails.
Gather your supplies and we'll begin.
The sea foam stitch is an eight row repeat,
when you work in one color it's totally reversible,
and when you get into the two color design
you're going to be working rows one through four
in one color, and then you switch it up
on rows five through eight with color B.
However, when you do that the reverse side
has a little bit of that color pop coming through
on the purled stitches.
So that's the only difference between making
a two color versus a one color design.
The sea foam stitch is a 10 plus six pattern repeat.
You really can tell here on the two tone
in this spot here so every 10 stitches,
say from here to here is your repeat.
So you can see I have one and two repeats,
and then I have my plus six on there.
So make sure your cast on is a multiple of 10,
and then add six more stitches for a flat panel.
So you need to go ahead and cast on in your main color,
and work a wrong side foundation,
knitting all the stitches.
I used a long tail cast on of 26 for this scarf,
and then worked one row of knitting already.
So you can see my purls on the right side.
So go ahead and pause your video and do your cast on,
and your foundation row of knitting.
And when we come back we'll work this eight row
repeat together.
All right so we're ready for row one,
but actually rows one and two are knitting, that is it.
So diving in we're just going to do a knit row
for rows one and two, and go ahead
and knit those two rows, pause your video to work on that,
and when we come back we'll start working on row three
which is the first of our drop stitch rows.
All right pause your video and I'll see you in a moment.
All right we're ready for row three,
and we're going to start by knitting six,
so go ahead and do that.
One, two, three,
four, five, and six.
Pause your video as you need.
All right now we're gonna start the drop stitch section,
so from here on you're just gonna keep repeating
what I do and you won't do the six together anytime.
Anytime you're knitting a series of them together
they're just gonna be five.
All right so first we're going to yarn over twice
to create our first drop, and so they start to increase
and we're gonna be putting a knit stitch right after.
Okay so we're going to yarn over twice,
simply take your yarn and wrap it around once and twice.
If it helps you can put your thumb on there
to keep it from falling off, and then we're just gonna
lock it in with a knit stitch.
Okay, that keeps that drop on there.
Now we're gonna move on to the second one,
which is yarn over three times.
So one, two, three,
knit that stitch.
Now these are represented by saying yo2xk,
so that's yarn over two times and then knit.
So now I've done three, we're gonna do four,
one, two, three, four and then knit.
So that's yo4xk, knit.
And then now we need to back it back down,
so we did a two, a three, a four, the four is the tallest,
and then we're gonna go back down to a three, and a two.
So a three, one, two, three, knit.
And then one, two, and then knit.
Okay, so now we've got the drop part,
now we need the part that's in the middle.
So we're gonna knit five.
One, two, three, four, and five.
And now you're just gonna repeat that
through your row, mine only has one more repeat
so I should have only 10 stitches on here,
if you did three repeats you would have 20 left and so on.
So before you knit this you start your yarn overs again.
One, two, knit.
Yarn over three times and knit,
so that's one, two, three, knit.
Yarn over four times and knit,
one, two, three, four, knit.
And three, one, two, three, knit.
Two, one, two, knit.
And then we're going to knit to the end,
or knit five okay, same as you did before.
One, two, three, four, and five.
Okay, so go ahead and pause your video if you need
and you're going to finish out your row
if you have more stitches, and now we're going to
move on so just pause and come back,
or we're gonna move on to the next row which is row four.
Let me get some extra yarn here.
Row four we're simply knitting across,
but we're gonna be dropping
those yarn overs off our needles.
So we're going to knit those five that we just did,
one, two, three, four, five.
So just kind of remember that pattern
that you just did backwards, and so now we know
that we had a knit stitch right before
so we're gonna knit that stitch,
and then we're gonna drop the yarn over
so we should have one, two that drop off.
Now knit the next stitch, and you should have
three yarn overs, one, two, three.
Now knit the next stitch, and now you have
four yarn overs, one, two, three, four, knit.
And drop the three,
and then there's a last yarn over so knit.
And drop those last two yarn overs
and then you're going to knit five.
One, two,
slide that on there,
three, four, five.
And you can work with straight needles,
I happen to have the circular.
With all the drop offs if you can work with
straights I recommend it because I don't like
pushing them right back on this little bend here.
Different needles work differently
but if you can use straight needles
then go for it I think it works really well
with the drop stitches.
So you can see this little mess of yarns here,
this is where you can pull it out,
or I'll show you how to pull it out here in a moment
when we're done with this row.
Go ahead and knit this next stitch,
and then do your drop offs, so here it is again.
One, two, knit one, and you've got, one, two, three,
knit one.
And one, two, three, four,
and then knit one.
Should have three, one, two, three,
and then knit one.
One, two, and there we go, and so we've got
six at the end because remember you started with six.
So if you don't have six at the end you've got
quite a few more stitches that's just because
you have more repeats then I do.
So I'm gonna go ahead and knit to the end,
pause your video if you need.
Three, four, five, and six.
All right so those are our drop stitches,
and if we pull them out like this you can see
has this graduated look, and it looks a little odd right now
because we don't have the alternated row in here.
Once we get row seven which has the other
drop stitches on there then it will start
evening itself out.
So let's turn this over and now you are ready
to begin your row five through eight.
So if you wanna keep doing a one color design
then just continue in what you have,
and you're gonna work rows five through six knitting,
so just two rows and knit those rows.
I'm gonna go ahead and add on a second color
and this is the spot where you will add on
your first color change.
So go ahead and grab color B.
Okay I've grabbed my second color here,
and I'm just gonna get right in to that first stitch,
and work this stitch as a knit stitch,
and knitting across.
So you're gonna work two rows in either A or B.
If you're color changing this is the spot you need to do it.
If you are new to working with color
and obviously new to drop stitches and stuff
you could go ahead and add a stitch marker
to the front here to show you this is the right side,
and you always add color on the right side of your work.
If you add it on the wrong side then that's where
you'll have that other color peak through.
All right pause your video, meet me back up for row seven,
see you in a moment.
All right we're on row seven, and before I continue
I wanna show you that I recommend cutting your yarn
and starting a new strand every time you have a color change
otherwise you're going to have this look here
where you've got these long floats up the side
where it's carrying the color,
and so you have the contrasting color against
the other color.
If you don't mind that, or maybe you're adding a border
or something later then you can totally do that.
I just wanted to have a sample that you can see
what it looks like if you carried your yarn.
You can absolutely do that just make sure and don't
pull it too tight along the edges,
and if you do start carrying it like that
always grab the new color of yarn.
If I was to start a new color here I would grab it
from underneath the last one and it twists it
nicely up that way.
All right so row seven, let's begin that.
Row seven we'll just start with a knit one, that's it,
knit one and then we're gonna continue the same
exact pattern we did before for the drop stitches,
so you're going to yarn over twice,
one, two, then knit.
Yarn over three times, one, two, three and knit.
Yarn over four times, one, two, three, four, and knit.
And if you're not sure what you did,
hey did I go back and I did two twice or something
you can go back and you can read your knitting.
So this is the knit stitch, and I have three, four
in between, and then here's my knit stitch,
and I have one, two, three.
Here's a knit stitch and then I have one, two.
And so you can kind of tell if you've got the right amount.
If you put your work down, where am I,
okay I did two, three, four and now I'm ready for three.
So I go, one, two, three, knit.
One, two, knit.
And then the same as before we're just knitting
five stitches in between, one, two,
three, four,
and five.
So after you knit your five you'll repeat your yarn over
section keep repeating it until it goes
to the end of the row.
You won't end with the knit five but you'll end with
the repeat of the yo2xk, so that is going to be,
that's gonna be it.
So the very last stitch is actually a knit stitch.
So continue repeating this and then you have row eight
which is just the same as row four
where you drop all the yarn overs off of your needles.
And that is your sea foam stitch repeat.
So if you want to weave it in,
you're gonna come back through this color,
and start weaving the color back on itself
through your garter stitches.
And just come up and around following the stitch patterns
that you see, just like that old candy,
I think they call it ribbon candy.
It goes up and around through here.
So just following the color that already exists,
and then we'll come up once more,
I'm gonna go into the shorter part of the garter
and not through these longer drop stitches,
and back around, and then this should hold nicely,
and then we'll just cut our yarn and be ready to go.
So that's how you would weave in your tails
for all these tails here.
Go ahead and finish weaving in all of your tails
except for the one that you're going to use
to connect the ends and you'll be ready to go
to block your work, and then sew the seams up.
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