- [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 a 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
on GoodKnit Kisses.
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for the Coral Breezes Infinity scarf
or see the sea foam stitch in a chart
please click on the link in the description below.
To make the sea foam stitch pattern
you're going to need a loom an appropriate gauge yarn,
or maybe one that's just a little bit lighter for the yarn.
I'm using the KB looms, chunky round loom set,
this is a large gauge 5/8 inch spaced loom,
and there are 36 pegs here.
I am only using 26 pegs of it for this particular scarf,
it is a 10 plus six multiple.
So if you wanna keep that in mind,
grab your tools and two contrasting colors of yarn,
and we'll begin.
The sea foam stitch is an eight row repeat,
and when we work in one color, it's totally reversible.
When you get into the two-color design
you're gonna 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 those purled stitches here,
so that's the only difference in making
a two-color design.
Again it is a 10 plus six pattern repeat,
you can really tell it here on this two tone one.
So every 10 stitches from here to here is your repeat.
So you can see I have one, two repeats,
and then I have a plus six.
So you wanna make sure that your loom is a multiple of 10,
and divisible by 10, and then you're gonna add
six more stitches.
All right so you wanna cast on, and get your foundation row.
I worked a chain cast on and then I purled across
to get ready for my first row.
Let's dive in to row one.
So pause your video, go ahead and cast on,
you can put your slip knot here, make your chain cast on
all the way to this side and then purl and come back,
and this is where I'm picking up on row one.
We're just going to be knitting across,
and our knit stitches are going to be U wraps.
So we're gonna take our yarn, and wrap into the front
like that, lift up and over to knit, and that is it.
So knitting across one full row, for row one,
and then row two we're going to be purling
all the way back here.
Pause your video and I'll meet you back out for row three
where we'll begin our first drop stitches, see you soon.
I just have two stitches left in my purl row.
So just in case you need to know how to purl again.
We're gonna place our working yarn down below
the stitch here, let me pick it up to show you.
Put it down below, we're going to lift up,
pull up like pulling a pearl from the ocean,
take off the old loop and put on the new loop,
and pull that, and do the next one.
Lay your yarn below the loop on the peg,
pull up the loop, lift off and place back on.
Okay, so row three, we're going to begin by working
the first five stitches, so we're going to knit,
one,
two,
three,
four,
five.
And then we're gonna work our stitches called a
Kyo2x, what that means is you're going to
knit the stitch and then we're going to yarn over,
so YO twice, so two times.
One, two, all right.
Now we're gonna work our next stitch
and we're gonna knit it.
So I just put it right in front here,
knit that stitch, and then we're gonna wrap it
three times, one, two, three (kyo3x).
Come over and work the next one.
This one will be four yarn overs.
So knit over, yarn over one, two, three, four (kyo4x).
So we've been building up and now we wanna go back down
and we go back to three, one to knit,
and now one, two, three (kyo3x).
And then we're going to work two yarn overs here.
So we're gonna knit one, and then yarn over twice,
one, two, and then now we're going to knit five here.
Knit one,
two,
three,
four,
and five.
So from the beginning of this knit stitch here,
all the way to this one here that is,
or this one here, that is our 10 stitch repeat,
so we're just gonna repeat that one more time.
We're going to knit and then yarn over twice,
and then knit this next one, yarn over three times.
Knit the next one, yarn over four.
Next one is back down to three,
and then we're gonna knit this one,
and do one, two, okay.
And then we're gonna work the next stitches.
One, two,
three,
four,
five, and on this row we actually have six.
Okay, so we had that extra five in the very beginning
plus this extra one at the end gives us our plus six,
so we had 10 plus six on our multiple,
and that's how we get that.
So now we're gonna work our way back.
So that was a row three, so now for row four,
this is where we need to take all of our drops off
of the pegs and you start getting this part coming.
So we're going to go ahead and purl these first
six stitches here.
I'll show you how to take the drops off,
so go ahead and do that,
just pause your video as you need too.
Okay so I've purled six and I'm coming to my first one
that has two yarn overs.
I'm going to take the yarn overs off, just let them drop,
and then we're going to purl this loop on here.
Lift it off and place it back on, and tighten that up.
And then we're gonna take off this next yarn over,
gonna unwrap all three of those and purl that loop.
Now that loop is gonna be nice and loose,
you can end up pulling this out later,
it's not necessary to do it just now.
Depending upon the system you like doing it
you could pull out all of your drop stitches first.
So pull out the series of five here,
and then work across,
whatever you like to do.
Just keep in mind that these stitches are gonna be
loose here and if you keep them not pulled out yet
then it won't be too loose when you start working
across here, if you go ahead and pull them out now
because you're on the loom it will make this stitch
really big and you have the potential to have
all this fall off.
So I recommend not pulling out these drops just yet,
until you've worked a row five, you'll see what I mean
on the next rows.
So go ahead and continue working all the way across,
pause your video and I'll meet you back up for row five.
We'll work it as a color changing row
so if you want too get your next color yarn
go ahead and do so, see you soon.
All right so we're gonna put in this next color,
if you want to carry the yarn up the side
and not cut your color you can do that
however, you're gonna have these big ladders here,
and so the opposite color is just gonna be
poking out here.
If you wanna have a cleaner look I suggest going ahead
and clipping the yarn as I've done,
and just start by having a nice loose tail here.
I wouldn't put a slipknot on it,
I would just leave it nice and loose,
so if you need a longer tail there that's fine.
Go ahead and start working this next row,
and all you're gonna do is just knit across,
so these first few stitches are going to be
a little loose with your working yarn already being cut,
and just pull on that strand and tighten it up.
So go ahead and knit a row, purl a row,
pause, and when you come back we'll work on row seven,
see you soon.
All right for row seven as I promised,
I talked about I would show you pulling these out,
so now that these are nice and secure
and here we can pull on the few rows below
where the drop stitch is.
So you can just kind of pull on your working project here,
this knitting that's here, just pull that on out
and you can see the drop stitches start to go.
We're just gonna kind of pull on these,
you can see the row that I did several rows below,
and pull on this one,
and you can see how it just makes it just drop,
instantly you start gaining several inches here
after a few of those rows have been pulled out.
So go ahead and do that, and then let's do row seven.
Now row seven is going to start with that shift over
of more yarn overs, you're gonna have more on this row
then you did before.
So we're gonna start with a knit, yarn over two times first.
So we're gonna knit one, and then yarn over twice,
so one, two, knit the next one,
you got it, yarn over three times, one, two, three.
Knit the third one, yarn over four times,
and knit the fourth one, and we're going back to three,
one, two, three, knit the fifth stitch, and yarn over twice.
One, two.
All right and then, now we're going to be knitting
five stitches, one, two, three,
four,
and five.
And then we're gonna repeat that section of 10 again.
So we're going to knit one,
yarn over twice,
and then knit one and yarn over two times.
If you lose your place, I'm sorry three times.
If you lose your place you can just count
your yarn overs, you're always gonna have
one at the bottom and then just count
that there's two up top.
So this one looks like it has three,
but it's really two yarn overs on top.
This one looks like it's four, but it's just
the knit at the bottom and then three yarn overs.
And then work over here and do four.
So you're gonna continue to repeat this,
and then in the end of this one you'll just have
one knit stitch.
So this one looks like there's just yarn over
starting at the very end, so yours will go
all the way down and then have one stitch remaining,
and you're just gonna knit that stitch.
So let's look at what this looks like on the chart.
Let's come over here, scroll to the bottom of my pattern
and what we have just done is we have worked this row,
I'm right about right here, and you can see
how my yarn overs, very simply look like a two
with the circle, a three, a four,
back down to the three and then a two,
and then we knit across, and then we're gonna have
those series of four, or five with the yarn overs,
and then there's that last knit stitch I was talking about.
Then your return row is a row eight
so you're gonna work across and purl.
And then that's it, that is the stitch repeat
for that color so you're only working four rows at a time
for your second color, and then when you begin again
you can change your color and work that row one through four
to begin again, and then switch your color up,
or you can just continue on making all rows
one through eight in the same color.
And that's it, that's simply the project,
and stay tuned.
So after you do that you're gonna purl a row
and then continue on and if you'll stay tuned
I'm gonna show you how to weave in these tails here.
All right we'll see you soon.
So if you want to weave 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 I'm 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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