In today's tutorial we'll loom knit the trinity
stitch which is also called the
raspberry or blackberry stitch. Welcome back
to another Yarspirations tutorial, I'm
your host Kristen Mangus of GoodKnit Kisses.
Let's get started. In today's tutorial
you'll need a medium number 4 weight
yarn in Caron One Pound, color Sunflower.
Today we're working the Pebble Pop Knit
Pillow pattern and this is made for
knitting needles and you can see that it has
a little bit of a see-through stitch.
It's really cool bumpy texture and
everything.
It's called the Trinity stitch or the
blackberry or the raspberry stitch and
we converted it onto the loom for you.
We're going to work through how to make
this on the knitting loom. I found that
working with this loom here is going to
get me enough stitches for this pattern
and we use a worsted weight yarn. The
loom is a 3/8 [inch] or small gauge loom, so you
want to-- if you want to scale it up you
can use an appropriate weight yarn for
that particular loom, but to get this
look here, you're going to want to use
these. Alright, let's get started.
The Trinity stitch is a 4+2 pattern with
the 4 row repeat, so if you can just
remember the four and four, you can work
it on a multiple of four stitches, and
then you're going to need two [stitches] on each
end when you're working back and forth
in the flat panel, for this purl stitch
here, on the front and the back of your
work. You can work is in the opposite
direction if you're left-handed loom knitter.
I'm going to work from the right to the
left with my purl stitches so if you
need that you just flip the directions.
I'm going to get started, so I've got
cast on 14 stitches (for a smaller
swatch to demo) and if you'd like
to try the Pebble Pop Knit Pillow, you're
going to cast on 82 stitches. Make sure
your loom can have 82 stitches on there.
Okay, so we're going to purl row 1. After
you're finished doing that, meet me back
up, make sure that you have cast on
from left to right so that your ending
on the very right-most peg to start
row 1. And again, if you are
left-handed loom knitter, you're going to want
to do in the opposite direction. So
whichever way is easiest for you in
purling, because we're going to have a lot of
purl stitches in this stitch
pattern. So pause your video as needed
and I'll meet you back in a moment. I'm
working this very last stitch and I'm
showing you that I did purl it. And now
I want you go the opposite way and we're
going to go ahead and purl this first
stitch. It is worked not a turning peg.
Meaning you're not ignoring that first stitch.
And then we want to work the next ones.
Now, this is where we start making a
change. We purled the first stitch, it's
always that way. But we're going to do a
little bit of gymnastics over a series
of 4 pegs. 1-2-3-4.
Now if you want you can put a stitch marker
on that fourth peg, so that you know
where that starts. You don't have to use
stitch markers, you can mark on your peg
here, but you want to have them in groups--
you're going to working in groups of
four. So this would be a set of four, and
then the next set will be down here, and
so on. And Im going to have to move
stitches so we're going to be increasing
and decreasing every row. This switch
here is our fourth one, and we want to
move everything over that on pegs 2
through 4. Now when I say 2 through 4,
I mean in this grouping of 1-2-3-4. So I'm
going to move it from peg 3, over to
peg 4 , and then I'm going to move
from peg 2 over to peg 3, because
I need to move peg 1 over to peg 2.
This one's going to stay now. And now I'm
going to move this new peg 3 over to peg 4.
Ok, so I'm calling-- forget this first
one-- I'm calling these pegs 1-2-3 and 4.
What's going to happen is this
particular peg is going to have an
increase. This peg here, is going to have
the decrease. And we're doing it all
within the same row and setting up
before we move on. So let's go ahead and
move all these stitches over, so that you
can see them. So I'm going to go down
here, and count off--this is my peg 1-2-3-4.
So I'm going to go down and move my 3 to my
4 peg. Move my 2 to the 3, and 1
to the 2. Now if you're a tight knitter,
you're going to definitely want to do
this. If you're really loose, you might be
able to move them all at the same time, but
it's better to move over this peg, one-at-a-time
so that you can get this one, over
from 1 over to 2. We're going to move these over
now. And make sure that your row before--
on the purl row--that you're nice and
loose,
ok. And so you should have an empty peg
every other one--
ok, so these are all set up correctly--and
it's easier to just to go ahead and
start it that way so you know. Now we're
going to make the increase. This is the
purl 1, knit 1, purl 1. [P1K1P1 in the same stitch]. Now if you're
looking at the pattern on the knit
pattern, it's going to say: knit 1, purl 1,
knit 1. But that's because it's on the
wrong side and we have to do the
opposite for a loom. So we're going to purl this
stitch here, and all we do is place it on
the empty one. That one's pretty easy.
The next one we're going to knit. Now,
this is the classic knit, or true knit
stitch and we're going to put the yarn on
the top of this peg here.
I find that it's easier to grab it from
putting my loom pick here, and putting it
on top of the pick, yarning over it and
then pushing it down my peg groove here,
ok. Then I'm going to hold it out like
this little bunny ear, and I'm going to
take my working yarn and bring my
knitting tool down here, pull up, and
yarn around here and pull up through
that peg groove, so I'll make the second little
bunny ear. Move my working yarn to the back
here, and pick up my little bunny ears,
ok. And now I'm going to put this peg--and
take this loop and put it on that peg here [left empty peg],
tighten it up, and put this loop on this
peg here [right empty peg] and tighten it up. Ok, and then
now I successfully increased from one
peg to two pegs (3 total pegs; its a 1 to 3 increase).
Now we're going to knit these together.
This is knitting all three pegs together [K3tog]
by just using a u-wrap. You can grab
them all at the same time. I like to do
one-at-a-time on this one. And I'm just
going to continue on. Purl. Place. Knit.
Bunny ear 1. Purl. Bunny ear 2. Pull
them off.
Place them. And then go ahead and pull
that extra slack out, okay. And then knit
these together [K3tog]. Trying to get them all at the same
time--I think it's kind of tight--so I'm just
going to do one-at-a-time, okay. And then
this is the last one in this sequence. So
we're going to purl it. Place it. Knit.
Bunny ear. Purl. And if you don't knit
it and then purl it --if you try and purl
and purl, it's not going to work. And
then I just pull these off and then--
you can even put both bunny ears on and
put this working on the back, and kind of
hold it, and it will cinch up this right
one, and then you can pull slack like
this. So if you like that method better,
try it out that way.
I've actually been doing it this way
most the time. And then knit all these
together. And you've got one last stitch
that you're going to purl, so just bring
that yarn forward, purl the stitch, and
then you're done with row 1.
I'm sorry, you're done with row 2. So row 3 is
simply purling just like row 1 did.
So go ahead and purl that stitch again,
and we're going to work all the way down
to the end in a purl stitch. Pause your
video and I'll meet you back in a moment.
Ok I've done the last stitch purling
this on row 3. Now row 4 is going to be
shifted from the
first one. So in order to get these spots
to close up where we've expanded, now
we're going to knit those areas together
and then we're going to expand out where
we had knit everything together. So it's made
opposite. So we're going to knit this--
I'm sorry--purl this first stitch on row
4. So purl peg 1, and this is where we're
going to move things opposite. So we're
going to move [peg] 2 to [peg] 1, move [peg] 3 to [peg] 2, [peg] 4 to [peg] 3
then move that [peg] 2 over to [peg] 1.
So now you've got every other peg here.
You're going to continue doing this set
up across... that got a little tight on that
row before, so just kind of tug on it
little bit. Get it on that peg.
Move the stitch over.
And once you have them all set up I'll meet you back
over, and then I'll show you how to do
those one more time. So set up this
entire row 4. Remember that the first
two [stitches] are not going to get moved at all, so if
you find easier you can put
stitch markers on just those rows--I'm sorry-- and
just on these [end] pegs... so that you know
not to work them, ok.
Now we're going to knit these all together.
So every time you see 3 together it's very
simple, just knit them.
And now we want to
create that first stitch which is the
purl and then place it. Purl and place.
Knit. Bunny ear 1. Purl. Bunny ear 2.
Take it off. Place those ears on here.
Tighten it up..
and then you’re just going
to continue on.
The last thing I want to
show you is very important, that way you
don't have to hold onto a pattern in
your hand. When you return back from a
purl row, which is after a row 1 or 3,
tilt your loom here and look at the back. And
you want to see where you have expanded
your stitches and where you have
decreased them. So increases and
decreases. So you're going to do the
opposite as you did the last time. You
look back here and see this one's all
bunched up.That's where you had a
decrease. You're going to want to move it
over and increase it due to--so it moves to this stitch,
and increases to this stitch and this
stitch. This one here, had 1-2-3 come out of
it so it needs to become like this one
and so it's going to move over here and
it's going to be all decreased together
stacked up as a knit 3 together [K3tog].
Ok, so i hope that helps you. Keep
continuing on in your design.
Once you get to the end of row 4,
just continue knitting rows 1 through 4 until
you get the desired length. And if you'd
like to join me for knitting up the rest
of your pillow, click on the link in the
description below, to finish that off. I
hope you enjoyed knitting the Trinity
stitch. On behalf of GoodKnit Kisses , I'm
Kristen Mangus, wishing you happy loom knitting.