- [Kristen] The delicate edelweiss blossom
covers the mountainside of the Alps,
and now you can duplicate that delicate floral texture
with the edelweiss stitch.
It is wonderful and breathable,
actually stretchy, and doesn't curl, which is great.
You can make it in a flat panel,
and you can also make it in the round,
and I'm gonna show you both today.
You can see it has this nice little lean to it,
has a great little texture,
and it's also, it's great, it's universal,
'cause you can use it for both masculine and feminine.
I'm gonna show it to you in the round on DPNs,
as well as in a flat panel today on GoodKnit Kisses.
Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses.
We're all about helping you stitch your love
and love your stitches.
For the edelweiss stitch,
we have the written directions and supplies
down at the link below,
so look in the description for that,
for the written instructions for the flat panel,
as well as in the round.
I'm gonna show you how to work the flat panel,
and I'm using circulars,
but you can use straights to work back and forth,
and then I'm gonna show you in the round on DPNs,
but you can also use circulars as well.
I am working with a US eight or five millimeter needle
and a number four medium weight yarn.
You could also use a US seven or 4 1/2 millimeter for that,
but you can use any weight of yarn you like
and appropriate gauge needle,
and we are gonna have two different multiples on these,
so I'll just get that out of the way at the beginning,
and then we'll go over individually for flat and the round.
The flat works with a two plus one multiple,
and in the round it works with a multiple of four.
If you'd also like to get the hat pattern,
you can also click and get that down at the link below,
and we'll have a video on how to make that in five sizes.
All right, grab your supplies, and we'll begin.
The edelweiss stitch in a flat panel.
You're going to begin by casting on
a multiple of two plus one.
I've casted on 20 stitches plus one, so 21 stitches,
and I just did a long tail cast-on,
and then you're going to begin with the first row.
This is a four-row repeat,
and the first and third rows are just knit only,
so, we're going to begin by knitting the first row.
So go ahead and cast on your 21 stitches,
and knit a first row.
Pause your video, and meet me back when you've finished
casting on in the first row.
We'll see you in a moment.
And if you need help with basic stitches and casting on,
be sure and click down in the description below,
and get a slower tutorial if you need that.
I'll see you soon.
All right, for row two,
we're going to knit the first stretch,
and then we're going to work in pairs
and you're going to be purling two stitches together,
and then knitting those same two stitches together
at the same time.
So, we're gonna do one, leave the stitches on,
and then do the next stitch, okay?
So how you do that is you put your yarn to the front,
in between the two needles,
and can move your knitting all the way to the end,
and get into the first two stitches,
just as if you were to purl,
and we're just going to yarn over
and push that new stitch there to the back.
You can swing it out and give yourself some space,
or you can keep it close,
whichever you're more comfortable with.
And then we wanna take our working yarn
before we drop off any of these old stitches,
put our working yarn to the back, so between these two,
swing our needle around to the front,
and we're going to knit these two stitches together.
So now we're gonna yarn over,
and then pull through that new stitch.
So you should have two new stitches made,
plus you have your beginning ones.
You have three on your needle,
and now we're just gonna work in pairs, continuing that on.
So let's do that again.
Yarn to the front,
gonna purl these two stitches together,
yarn over, push that new stitch to the back,
put your yarn in between the needles,
and then knit the two stitches together.
So you're just swinging that around to the front.
and that's how you do it.
So you just keep on repeating.
Now I wanna show you how to go backwards
if you get messed up, it's actually pretty easy,
so I'm just gonna take my other needle,
and we're gonna put it right back in
to these two stitches back here.
You just pull back,
and you can see the stitches very clearly,
and then you can actually just slide off
those two stitches there, okay?
So if you accidentally knit two first and purled,
or knit two together first and purled two together,
so you did it backwards, then you can just do that,
or however you messed up, that's how you would do that.
So let's do that one more time.
Yarn forward, purl these two stitches together,
put our yarn to the back,
and just pop them right through between those needles,
and go into the front of that stitch,
and knit the two stitches together.
And just continue on until you get to the end of your row,
and you should have an even number of stitches at the end,
so your last two will be worked together.
All right, so continue working on that.
Pause your video, and I'll meet you back for row three.
See you in a moment.
For row three, you're simply just going to knit across.
So go ahead and do that.
Pause your video, and I will see you for row four.
See you in a moment.
Row four, we're going to shift our stitch pattern
over by one.
That way we get this very pretty alternating design here.
So you're just going to begin by knitting the two stitches,
working them in pairs,
starting at the beginning of this row,
and then you end with one knit stitch.
So you're just gonna begin
by purling these two stitches together as you did before,
and then put your yarn to the back,
and knit them together.
And then repeat along this row
until you have one stitch left, and knit that one.
So, just the same as the second row,
it's just that you're knitting one in the end
instead of the beginning.
And that's it.
So continue doing that.
I'll meet you back at the end.
See you soon.
And our last knit stitch, and turn that over,
and you're ready to repeat your four-row repeat again,
so you'll just continue until you get to your desired length
and bind off after a row four,
or move on with your next stitch pattern.
So as you can see, it's got a really pretty right side,
but also equally pretty is the reverse.
It makes a great stitch.
Let's move on to the round version,
knitting in the round, the edelweiss stitch.
Knitting the edelweiss stitch in the round.
Now I'm working with DPNs, or double pointed needles,
on this hat here,
but you can of course use circular needles
and use the magic loop technique, whatever you'd like.
For edelweiss in the round,
it's similar to the four-row repeat.
You will be having a round of knit stitches
for the first round and the third round,
and every other row for the second and fourth round,
it's going to shift.
We are going to play a little bit
with this first stitch marker, moving it back and forth,
so I recommend having a few stitches
on the beginning of your DPN with a stitch marker there,
if you're gonna work with DPNs.
On a circular, it won't matter so much,
but you will want to put it here instead of just
pinning it to your knitting.
So, go ahead and cast on, and do whatever edge you want,
or you can just cast on
and connect in the round and get ready,
and we'll do our first round of knitting.
So go ahead and knit one round, pause your video,
and I will see you for the second round.
See you then.
Okay, so let me finish up these last two stitches,
and we'll begin the first, the second round, actually.
Okay, so, I'm gonna go ahead and slip my stitch marker,
and we're going to knit one.
Just like in flat panel, we're knitting one,
and if you did that one before,
we're going to do the same as we did before
where we are working these two stitches together
as a purl two together and then a knit together.
So go ahead and put your yarn forward,
and we're going to go into both of these stitches,
just like to purl.
Yarn over, push that new stitch through,
making that new stitch there.
Put our yarn to the back,
so you're going in between these two needles,
and move our needle in the front of that
to knit them together.
So knit these two stitches together,
and then drop off the two old stitches.
Okay, so we just made two new stitches here
and dropped off the old.
And it makes this little stitch down here, okay?
It starts making that little flower.
All right, so we're gonna yarn forward,
and we're gonna work these next two stitches again.
So we are purling two together,
and then in the same stitch, knitting two together.
So there's purl two together, yarn to the back,
and then knit the same two stitches together
without dropping them off that needle.
And then we drop them off.
So you're gonna continue working around in pairs.
Go all the way around,
and then when you have one stitch remaining,
you're gonna pause your video,
so you'll be down at this end.
I'll just wait until we have one stitch
remaining on our DPNs,
which mean we have actually three left,
and you'll see what we do there.
All right, pause your video,
and I'll meet you at the end of this needle.
See you soon.
I do want to show you something
before we get to the end of this round.
You can see how I have one stitch left on my first DPN,
and I'm just gonna slip it over,
and then go ahead and move my new needle into place,
and slip that stitch back over to the next needle,
and then I can work these two stitches together.
So, you will have a bit of moving some of these stitches
back and forth over on your DPNs
just so that you can work them more easily in pairs,
so I just wanted you to see how to do that.
So moving on to the next DPN,
we're just gonna make sure our yarn is forward.
Go into those two stitches,
purl them together,
swing our yarn in between the two needles,
and then knit them together, and continue.
All right, we'll see you when you,
actually when you have four stitches left on your needles
for the end of round two.
Pause your video, and I'll see you there.
Okay, so I have my last DPN.
The next one has the two stitches left,
and then my stitch marker,
but technically the last DPN is this one.
It has three stitches here,
so we actually have five stitches left in the row.
Let's go ahead and still work these in pairs.
And if you're not used to working with DPNs,
you just ignore these other ones here and just keep working
with the new one as it unloads here,
so we're just working these two stitches together again,
here we go.
Okay, and now I have one stitch left on this needle.
Let's go ahead and transfer it over as we've done before.
We're gonna put it over here on this one,
which is our beginning one again,
and now I've got my empty DPN,
and we can work,
there's three stitches left,
we can work these first two stitches,
like we've been doing.
Okay.
So now when we have one stitch left,
we're going to work this last pair together.
Well, what it is, is it's the last stitch,
and then the first stitch as another pair.
So, we're gonna put our yarn forward,
we're going to slip this next stitch purlwise
and take off the marker,
and then we can place this back on here,
and now we're going to work these two stitches,
and purl the two together.
And after we create our new stitch,
you can go ahead and put on your stitch marker again,
and then now put your yarn to the back,
and knit those two stitches together.
And then you have completed round two.
Okay, so then now for round three,
all you're going to be doing is knitting all the way around
the remaining stitches.
So the first one is actually already knit,
because you just worked it,
so you're just gonna continue
working all the way around all stitches.
Pause your video.
When we meet back up, we'll work round four,
which is actually much easier. (laughs)
All right, pause your video, I will see you there.
Coming to the end of round three,
and I'm gonna go ahead and knit this very first stitch
on our last needle.
Okay, so I have three stitches at the end.
I just wanted to move this other one over,
because what we're gonna do in this next round
is work in pairs,
beginning after the placed marker.
So go ahead and knit these first two stitches.
They're technically the last two stitches
for the end of the round.
Work them on this first needle.
Okay, slip the marker,
and now we can begin round four,
which is working in pairs throughout.
So you're going to be
purling two and knitting two stitches together
in the same stitch all the way around,
and it will work out evenly
to where these last few stitches here
are worked in a pair as well,
so there's no moving around of those stitches.
So go ahead and work that pattern.
Yarn forward, and purl two stitches together,
and knitting two stitches together in the same stitch.
Pause your video, and I'll see you after this round.
See you soon.
One last quick tip,
when you're coming to the end of a DPN
and you have one stitch left,
I just wanna suggest you go ahead and switch that over,
and work it without the fresh, empty needle just yet.
Go ahead and get these two stitches over.
So go ahead and work those two, purling two together,
knitting two together
Oops.
There we go, oops.
I have got a yarn over.
Haha, did you see that?
Okay, so purling two together,
and then knitting two together.
And then that way your stitch count is divisible by eight,
or at least for mine is divisible by eight,
so I have all these pairs over here.
Otherwise you're just gonna
keep moving stitches over and over
and then get it all unevenly loaded
if you're working with DPNs.
Okay, continue working,
and I will see you at the end of that round.
See you soon.
So I'm at the end of my round,
I have two more stitches left,
and I'm gonna work that in a pair as well.
But before I do, I just wanna point out
that you are be repeating rounds one through four
to work the edelweiss stitch,
and if you do have to put your work down,
I recommend actually just ending right here,
and you can even leave these two stitches on,
and when you examine your work and pick it back up,
you can see that you just in fact worked a round four,
'cause you can see these pairs sticking out really well,
and know that then you'll go right into
a round one after that.
So this is just a really great place to stop,
'cause you've got your stitch marker right on there,
and you're ready to just put that away if you have to.
So, I'm gonna continue on finishing making my hat.
If you'd like to join me for that,
please click down in the links below to see the video
on making the edelweiss hat,
and also get your pattern.
Thanks for joining me today at GoodKnit Kisses
in learning how to make the edelweiss in the round
and in a flat panel.
And I'll see you soon.
Bye everyone!
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