The Eiffel Tower Eyelet Stitch
Bonjour! I’m Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit, or in French, Atelier Tricot.
It’s Knitting Lesson Monday and I am so excited to share one of my very favorite vintage
knitting stitches, the Eiffel Tower! Ooh la la!
With a series of yarn overs, knits, and purls, we will create this tres chic stitch pattern
with rows of the iconic Eiffel Tower. Eyelets are basically holes within a swatch of fabric,
and our Eiffel Tower is created by knitting an eyelet in its base.
We will be repeating the pattern of eight stitches, so cast on in multiples of eight.
Let’s see how how it knits up together, by focusing
on the first of the two tower rows.
Row one is the trickiest, so I will show it a couple times here.
We first purl four stitches, then we will do a yarn over in this direction, which is
counter-clockwise, bringing the yarn around to the front. Now, we will Purl Two Together.
Then we will just finish up by purling six.
Let’s repeat this series of eight stitches, to make certain you’ve got it. Yarn over, purl two together, and purl six. Then, just repeat until you
get to your last four stitches, which are just purling.
Awesome! Okay, on Row 2, after knitting our first four stitches, we will knit 7,
then purl 1 and repeat, until you reach the last four stitches, which are just knitting.
Pretty easy!
And after just two rows, let’s see how the base of our Eiffel Tower is shaping up.
Looking good!
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Row 3, after purling our first four stitches, we will Knit one, then purl seven.
Repeat until you reach the last four stitches, and just purl.
Okay, so now we are going to be repeating what we have already done.
Row 4 is just a repeat of Row 2, with Knit 7 and Purl 1.
Let’s see how it’s looking now. Gorgeous!
And Row 5 is just a repeat of row 3, so we knit one and purl seven.
Again, Row 6 is a repeat of rows 2 & 4, just knit 7 Purl 1.
Our tower is almost complete.
And Row 7 is a repeat of rows 3 & 5.
Then on Row 8, to make this ridge separating our Eiffel Tower rows, we simply Purl all
the way across the row.
To continue the pattern with the towers alternating like this,
for the second tower row, it’s really the exactly same as what we just did except
we will begin our tower pattern four stitches later. So, for both tower rows I have written out all of the stitches in the description below.
I just love this Eiffel Tower Stitch. I think it would be really cool, maybe on the edge of a hat,
leggings, there are so many creative things that you can do with this stitch patttern.
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Bye! Salut!