How to knit a braided Celtic Knot Scarf. Hi, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my
channel Studio Knit for a little luck of the Irish.
Let's knit up this braided celtic knot scarf and this intertwined design is
a really fun one you can wear it as an infinity scarf you can also stretch it
out just a little bit covering your shoulders like a mock shrug and with
this intertwined braided design it is definitely a statement piece in the
written pattern you'll see that I do have different size options you can do a
32 inch 36 inch or 40 inch circumference that is what your scarf will be all the
way around and if you're excited to knit up this scarf yourself please like up
this video it really helps me out inspired by my new knit stitch pattern
book experience beginning knitters will confidently knit up the scarf while
learning a few extra techniques along the way we're knitting three textured
patterns the simple garter stitch stockinette stitch and a large swath of
the graphic parallelogram stitch for our materials we're using long size eleven
us knitting needles with some bulky number five weight yarn I also have a
little bit of scrap yarn you'll see how we're using that later along with
scissors and a tapestry needle to begin we are casting on a total of 30
stitches I'm just using the basic longtail cast on method for these 30
stitches here for section 1 can't get any easier than this we are doing the
Garter stitch that is simply knitting every single stitch for a total of 8 row
so we're just knitting every single row 8 rows total and then we're taking our
tapestry needle and that little bit of scrap yarn I'm using white here in this
example and we are going to place all of our stitches on this piece of yarn which
is acting like a stitch holder because in section 2 coming up we are going to
make those long loops that create the braided Celtic knot so here our very
first 6 stitches we're going to begin by knitting those
take your knitting needle from the left and you will place your stitches back on
to your straight needle and then you'll want to remove the little scrap yarn on
these 6 stitches so that you can knit them up and these long loops are knitted
in the stockinette stitch and that is knitting on the right side and then Row
2 is purling so this is the wrong side of our work we're going to purl all of
the stitches and so this stockinette stitch if you have knitted before you
know that it tends to curl up and we're intentionally wanting these loops to
curl up so the stockinette stitch is perfect you'll continue the stockinette
stitch for a total of 32 rows and then you will be taking these stitches off of
the needle by using another piece of scrap yarn and treating that as your
stitch holder freeing up your straight knitting needle so that you can knit the
other four of these long loops so you'll want to break your yarn
and repeat these steps until you have all five loops taking a moment to admire
our work so far we have that garter stitch section one on the bottom and
then we have our five loops and they are being held by some scrap yarn as a
stitch marker you can see we have a lot of yarn tails and so I'm choosing to
clean those up right now you can leave everything to the end but I think it's
really nice to just sort of clean it up as you go so I'm going to be weaving in
those ends from the beginning of our work and cutting off the yarn so it's
nice and clean so this is the wrong side of our work and here we are admiring it
from the right side of our work with those pretty little loops so now we're
going to place all of the stitches back on to our knitting needle so again
starting from the left go ahead and thread that straight knitting needle
back through all of your stitches and when you're done take off that stitch
holder because you won't need it anymore and now we start the parallelogram
stitch now one little tip I like to take both my yarn tail and the new yarn and
knit those together it just helps keep it a little bit tighter and so
everything is on your straight needle and you will follow the parallelogram
stitch pattern again we have these little yarn tails and I like to clean
them up okay so carrying on knit the
parallelogram stitch you'll want to get that written pattern it's all just knits
and pearls it's very simple but we are not going to be spending our time
watching me knit and purl for a few hours so let's jump to the parallelogram
stitch being all knitted up and beautiful and placed back on the stitch
holder that scrap yarn now at this point I love
blocking my work so while it's in this one long rectangle piece you can simply
wet your garment lay it out on your blocking mats and just allow it to air
dry overnight I want to point out for our stockinette stitch loops we do not
want to block those because we want it to be all curled up unto itself we don't
want to flatten those out so when you're blocking you can just leave those alone
okay Section four we are making the stockinette stitch loops again so we're
beginning with the first six stitches placing them back onto our straight
knitting needle getting rid of that stitch holder so that we can knit the
stockinette stitch to create those nice long loops add it's just knitting on the
right side purling on the wrong side for a total of 32 rows for each and this
time for your stitch holders you want just tiny little pieces to hold each of
the loops individually for the braiding process you don't want them all attached
do you want them separate just like this oh they're so cute and we are getting so
close to the end already so let's bring our entire scarf in to frame and I'm
going to sort of style it as though I am wearing it everything is the right side
that we can see and we will slip our scarf over as though we're wearing it
and it is time to braid so you just take one of the loops and you intertwine it
so to begin I'm going to go over under over under and finishing over and on our
second loop I'm going to alternate that so I'll begin going under over under
over and finishing up under and we just repeat this so on the third we're doing
it the same as we did on the first beginning
with over and finishing with over and then on the fourth it's just like we did
for the second one we begin with under over under over and finish with it under
right there and here we go on number five beginning over under over under and
finishing with it over oh it looks so cool okay so let's get those stitches
back on to our knitting needle and again we're starting from the left and placing
all of our thirty stitches back onto our straight knitting needle and you can
take those little stitch holders off as you go so let's move our piece around so
that our knitting needle is positioned so that I can actually knit from it and
we have all of those yarn tails again I like to knit the yarn tail on the first
stitch together with my yarn it just helps it stay in place a little bit
better I feel and we are knitting every single row again because this is the
Garter stitch it doesn't get any easier than this and you'll be knitting all of
your stitches back on to your knitting needle and then it is cast off time
already so I'm just going to bind off very loosely just the standard way that
we usually do of course all of the knitting techniques I do have linked for
you if you need to brush up on any of these basic basic knitting techniques
and once you're finished binding off all of your stitches we are almost there we
are going to cut our yarn take our tapestry needle and weave right through
that last little loop and then weave in all of our ends I'm not sure how many
ends you have it does go pretty quickly so I wouldn't dread it too much and you
are done you can have a lot of fun styling this piece however you wish this
is what the front of it looks like and here let's look at that parallelogram
stitch on the back of our work I just think it's
so beautiful and elegant and blocking it really gives it a really nice smooth
look again this design was inspired by my new knit stitch pattern book which is
available both in a printed and an e-book format so I'll have the link for
you you can go down and get your very own copy of that you will need the full
written pattern so I have that available for you totally for free over on my
website studio knit thank you so much for watching I hope you are inspired to
knit up your very own braided belted not scarf and I've so many more fun Celtic
cable patterns that I hope you check out as well.
BYE!