- [Kristen] The diagonal spiral rib stitch.
Hi, I'm Kristen, and welcome back to Studio Knit.
This diagonal spiral rib stitch
creates a textured slanted ribbing pattern.
It's really simple with just knits and purls,
so it is great for beginning knitters,
and it has these spirals that look similar
to complicated cabling,
but it is so easy to knit up
in an 18 row repeat.
As you knit it up,
your work slants to the right side.
Now, if you would like it to remain more vertical,
you can block your piece lightly like I did here
in my white sample,
and you are able to have it be more
of a square or rectangular shape,
but I think this slant makes it really perfect
for an easy knitted scarf.
The spiral ribs create a really thick piece of knitting,
and you'll see that it is a reversible pattern,
so both sides,
the right and the wrong sides, look identical.
And I want to show you as you knit it up,
it will look like it is starting to bend
a little bit to the opposite side,
but when you stretch out your stitches
onto your needle,
you'll see that the pattern actually is
correctly knitting up,
and it just goes on and on.
You can knit it up for as long as you desire.
This pattern is from my "KNIT STITCH" pattern book,
and for your materials you can use
any gauge of yarn
and appropriately size knitting needles.
Of course you'll also wanna have scissors
and a tapestry needle on hand.
The written instructions are available
totally for free,
over on my website Studio Knit.
And you also can pick up either the printed book
or the digital ebook of my "KNIT STITCH" pattern book
that is ad-free,
and this is one of the 50 patterns.
You'll find it down at the bottom
of the table of contents,
because this is an 18 row repeat.
And on page 71,
you'll find a picture,
you'll see the symbol that shows
it is reversible.
It also includes the knitting chart
and instructions to knit it both flat and in the round.
We are going to be knitting the flat version today.
And when you take a look at the knitting chart,
you'll see that it's simply a three by three rip stitch,
and it slants with every third row,
just shifting over one stitch.
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So, let's knit it up.
We begin by casting on in the multiples of six stitches.
So I'm using the long tail cast on method.
I have all of the knitting techniques
you'll need to know below.
And knit up in six stich multiples
until you have the number of stitches
that you would like on your knitting needle.
I have 30 in this example.
And rows one, two and three are
exactly the same.
So we're knitting three stitches,
which is K3,
means knitting three stitches
and then we are purling three.
So we're bringing our yarn to the front of the work,
and purling three stitches.
And we repeat this pattern,
K3, P3, and that's in between those little asterisks.
That's what it means,
is that you're repeating what is written
right in between those little stars,
all the way until you get to the end
of the row.
And here, rows one, two and three
have been knit up,
and you'll see it's just a simple
three by three rib stitch,
but now we're gonna shift it over
a little bit to get those diagonal spirals going.
So we begin with a P1.
And you'll see in between the asterisks,
the pattern is P1,
and then knitting three stitches.
So we have one, two and three.
And then bringing the yarn to the front,
so that we purl two stitches.
Now we're repeating the pattern.
So we start right in to the purl one,
taking it back,
going knit three and continuing
all the way down the row.
This is how row four is looking,
where we're starting to shift the ribs
over just a little bit.
Now row five begins by knitting two
and then purling three stitches
with our yarn in the front.
Purling those three stitches
and then we are going to finish up row five's pattern
with K1, knitting one stitch,
and you'll repeat that all the way down the row.
Now on row six,
the instructions, you'll notice when you look
at the pattern, are identical to row four.
So we are purling one stitch.
We're going to knit three stitches
and you'll see up there it's P2.
And we're going to have a chance
to look at our work as I'm knitting this up
so you can see how the spirals
start to develop as you do this really simple series
of knits and purls.
And here they are,
they're starting to shift over
after knitting up the first six rows
of the diagonal spiral rib stitch pattern.
Now row seven, we're beginning on the right side.
And it's just K1, knitting one stitch,
bringing our yarn to the front
to purl three stitches
and then finishing by knitting two stitches.
And once I get through the beginning part,
in my head I just think K3, P3.
You can think that in your head
until you get to the end of the row
and that sort of helps me mentally keep track
of this pattern a lot easier.
Row eight, we are going to be purling two stitches.
So we start with that yarn in the front
of our needle,
every time we begin with a purl stitch
on the first stitch of the row.
And then we're doing K3,
that is knitting three stitches.
And then finishing up with P1.
And taking a quick look at how row eight looks.
Let's finish up this little triplet
with row nine,
and it is K1, knitting one,
bringing our yard to the front.
P3 and K2.
And when you look at the written pattern,
you'll see that both rows nine
and row seven are identical.
So once we've completed nine rows,
we're halfway done,
and our pattern is definitely shaping up.
A really nice texture, nice and cozy.
I think this would be a really perfect scarf
to knit up exactly as it is.
You can add edges or other little design elements,
but exactly how this pattern is written now,
you could just make a really, really cool scarf
very quickly and easily.
So rows 10, 11, 12 are all identical, P3, K3.
And that keeps it nice and easy
at this point.
You can take your eyes off the pattern
and just purl three and knit three
all the way down the row on the next three rows.
Here is how it is looking.
So far we've completed 12 out of the 18 rows.
And let's just carry on,
stick with me here,
let's do this together.
We're going to do row 13 is,
purling two stitches,
and then it is knitting three
and purling one.
I'm gonna speed this up a little bit.
Row 14 is beginning by knitting one, purling three,
and knitting two.
And row 15 is exactly what we just did on row 13.
We are purling two stitches, knitting three
and purling one
and doing this stitch repeat all the way down
until we get to the end of our row.
Okay, and here is how it's looking.
I wanna show you again how it might look
like it starts to bend the wrong way,
but when you stretch out your stitches,
you'll see that it actually is continuing
to knit up exactly the way that you want it to.
It just sort of likes to do a little trick on us.
Okay, so knitting two stitches on row 16,
and then purling three
and the last is knit one, of course.
Row 17, we're purling one, knitting three,
and purling two.
And again after we get started
at the beginning of each row,
mentally, I like to think about it as K3, P3.
Keeps it really nice and simple.
And finishing up with row 18,
it's exactly like we did on row 16.
We are just knitting two stitches,
bringing our yarn to the front
to purl those three stitches.
One, two and three,
and then finishing up with knitting one stitch.
And to carry on,
to keep this diagonal going,
you just start again with the row one,
and knit as many repeats of rows
one through 18 as you desire.
I hope you are inspired to give
this diagonal spiral rib stitch pattern a try.
Thank you so much for watching.
I have lots of great knit stitch pattern videos.
If you haven't had a chance yet,
please check out my "KNIT STITCH" pattern book,
and I will see you here next time.
Bye.
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