The CATERPILLAR STITCH
Hi, guys, I'm Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit, the place where
you come to knit and totally fall in love with it. And today is a knit stitch pattern
that's perfect for summer and it's very modern, I love it, it is the Caterpillar knit stitch
pattern perfect for dish cloths or anything you can dream up. So let's get started. And
because I am making a dish cloth, I am using cotton yarn it is worsted weight number four
I will have a link in the description below and my needles are size 7. We are going to
cast on in multiples of 6 and I am going to have a selvage stitch on either end, so I
am casting on in multiples of 6 and then I am adding 2 stitches. You can add as many
extra stitches to the sides of your work as you choose. And so here I have the stitch
on the side and I have my multiples of 6, I have 4 multiples of 6 right here on my needle.
On row one, so this is going to be the right side of our work where you can see the caterpillar
and here I'm just with my selvage stitch, I'm just going to slip that off and now I'm
going to begin the pattern which is Knit 1 and after we knit 1 we're going to purl so
that means we bring our yarn around to the front of our needle and we are going to purl
five stitches, you can see the pattern on the side right here as we go along so you
can keep track of what I'm doing. I also have the full pattern down in the description below
as well. So, we're going to quickly do our five purl stitches and after we're done with
that we just repeat until we get to the end of our row and again for me I have one extra
little selvage stitch on the end. So here is how it's looking and row two we are going
to, I'm slipping one off and then I begin the pattern. So, I'm going to knit five stitches
and if you think about it, we are knitting what we purled on the first row. But you don't
need to think too hard, just go ahead and follow the pattern and you'll be good. And
then we do this one purl stitch here on our wrong side and we repeat the pattern until
we get to the end of our row. And then we just repeat on rows 3, 4, 5, and 6 exactly
what we did on rows 1 and 2. Here is how the wrong side looks and our right side, the side
that actually shows our caterpillar shaping up is right here. Now our last six rows are
essentially the same but we want to have our caterpillars in between each of the first
row of caterpillars that we have so I'm going to slip off my first little selvage stitch
and we're going to begin by purling. So, it is going to be purl 3, so that way we have
a little bit of space until we begin the caterpillar portion of our knitting here and we're going
to get back in focus take our yarn to have just one knit stitch right there and finish
up with purl 2. After I do my knit one, in my mind, I like to just think of the purling
five times and knit one rather than thinking of the p 3 the p 2 that just helps it stay
clear in my head. Do it however you would like as you follow the pattern. Now row 8,
it is very similar we are knitting two and then after we're done with that we are going
to purl one right here and coming around finishing it up with knit 3 but again if you want to
think of it after knit 3 to go back to knit 2 you can think of it as knitting 5 and purling
1. So we just carry on until all the purl rows are done and here is how it's shaping
up. I hope you are inspired to knit up this really cute, fresh caterpillar knit stitch
pattern. Make sure to check out all of my other knit stitch patterns I have lots of
fun, beautiful ones to chose from, many more to come and if you have any knitting ideas,
I love adding them to my list so please in the comments below let me know if you have
any knitting or crafting suggestions for us to do here on Studio Knit. Thanks so much, guys.
Bye!