The Sea Foam Wave.
A great knit stitch for summer time.
Hi, Guys!
I'm Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit.
My Drop Stitch Garter pattern was a big hit here, so I thought we should turn it up a
notch and create this beautiful ocean inspired pattern, simply by varying our number of Yarn
Overs.
I have the full written pattern on my website, the link is in the description below.
There is a printable PDF and oh you also might want to click the link to Pin this onto your
Pinterest board and save it for later.
For our materials, you can use any yarn and needle size you want.
In this example here, I am using cotton worsted weighted yarn and number 7 knitting needles.
You've seen these before, as well as scissors and a tapestry needle.
And to begin we start with our beloved slip knot.
And we are going to be casting on in multiples of ten, plus six.
What that means is multiples of ten.
You cast on ten stitches and then you stop there and you cast on another multiple of
ten.
You keep casting on in ten until you have as many stitches on your needle as you'd like
for the width of your project.
And then once you have that done, add another six stitches after you've done your multiples
of ten.
Okay, does that clear it up?
I hope so, I get this question a lot.
Here on row one, it is super simple, we are knitting all.
So, row one, just do that knit stitch all the way down the row.
Oh, and if you think this is a really cute pattern that you would like to try, do me
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Okay, row two.
This is where all the fun begins.
So, K6 right there, that just means knitting the very first six stitches, super simple.
I'm going to show you this in detail.
So, yarn over one time.
And that means bringing our yarn through the middle of our needles and holding it to the
front.
I'm just going to hold it right here as I go ahead and knit one.
So, you'll see it says Yarn Over one time, and then knit one, so that's what we're doing
here, we're taking that yarn over and we're knitting that one stitch and knit it through.
So, here we have the six stitches we started with.
And then there's our little yarn over and here's the one stitch that we knit.
We're just going to do the same thing except this time we're going to bring the yarn over
one and wrapping it around is yarn over two.
And then we'll just hold our yarn right here as we go ahead and again it's just knitting
that one little stitch and we take our yarn around, knit it through that stitch, and I
think you have the hang of it, but I'm going to stick with this a little bit more to make
sure that you do.
Now, we're going for the big one here.
Yarn over three.
So, that's one, wrapping it around that's two, and wrapping it around again, that's
three.
We hold it in place right here and again we are just knitting one stitch and bring that
yarn around, knit it through, awesome.
And now our drop wave is going to go down, so it is going to be yarn over two times.
One and two.
I'll go a little bit faster here because I know you've got the hang of it.
You knit one stitch and then here at the very bottom you'll see it's yarn over one, we knit
six stitches now, so make sure to remember that this knit is knitting one and then you
keep knitting, so that's knitting one and you go two, three, four, five, six of course.
So, you'll see in the pattern the astericks.
Now what that means is that you repeat this section for as many multiples of ten as you
may have cast on your needles.
So, once you've finished knitting those six stitches at the end, you just go ahead and
repeat with the yarn over one, knit one, until you get to the very end of row two.
I want to take a moment to show that after all those yarn overs, your knitting needle
is going to be pretty crowded with stitches.
But, do not worry, we are getting rid of those, we're dropping those stitches here on row
three.
Beginning with simply knitting six stitches, super simple, and the first thing we do is
drop one stitch, so right there, the yarn over, we just drop it.
We just let it go.
We are not knitting it, we're just letting it go and letting it fall right there in the
front of our work is pretty much where it likes to be.
And we just ignore it.
And then we knit one stitch.
See the pattern to our left here and then next we just drop two, one and two.
And the dropped stitches are really obvious on your left needle.
And you just knit that one through and next we're dropping three, so one two and three.
And that's a long one!
And so just let that stay there, go ahead and knit one stitch and you know what's coming
next.
We are going to be dropping two stitches right here.
One and two.
Let's go ahead and knit one stitch, take it around.
Ah, here we are at the end.
Drop one, Okay, and now it's knitting six, so one and just keep knitting.
Now you'll see this is what our dropped stitches look like.
I like to sort of pull them into shape.
You'll see a little bit later that shaping this, it definitely helps our wave pattern
look really good.
And we just continue dropping and knitting as we go down the row.
And row four couldn't be any easier.
We are simply wrapping up this little section here by knitting all the way down the row.
And here we can take a look at how our Sea Foam Wave is shaping up.
I really do like to pull the waves, kind of get it into shape right there.
Now, carrying on, we are going to do row five, you can do it either with the same color yarn
or if you'd like to do different colors, row five is the perfect place to change it up.
It's also a great way for me to show you the distinction between rows one through four
and five through eight.
I'm going to change here to white yarn.
Row six here is totally identical to the Yarn Overs that we did, except we just start it
sooner.
So, with only knitting one stitch, then we immediately go into the yarn overs.
You'll see on row six in the pattern it just says knit one and then there's astericks and
it starts the yarn over pattern.
What I wanted to point out in row six is at the end.
So, you'll see the yarn over pattern ends with K 6, knitting six stitches.
However, on this row, we are just ending with our last repeat is knitting one stitch.
And on row seven, it also is the same drop stitch pattern, it's just that we start it
sooner.
So, it's knitting one, drop one, knit one.
And drop two, knit one.
And you know how to do it.
Again, on this row you are going to be ending your last repeat with just knitting one.
It's not ending with knitting six, it's just knitting one on your very last stitch.
And our last row, row eight, I bet you could've guessed.
It is simply knitting all the way down the row.
And we just repeat rows one through eight for the length that you desire.
And at that point, simply bind off the regular old bind off method.
Since I wanted to finish in blue and I did my blue in rows one through four, I finished
after row four and I'm binding off right there.
You will want to sort of shape your wave pattern a little bit, you'll definitely want to take
control of that yarn, those yarn overs, and pull them into shape.
This is what it looks like on the right side of the work if you changed yarn colors.
If you use the same yarn color, then it's reversible.
It's totally identical.
But with different yarn colors this is what the front or the right side of our work looks
like.
And here is the back, what they call the wrong side.
I think it's still very pretty.
And depending on the type of yarn that you use, you might want to block.
I lightly steamed mine because this is cotton yarn, to really make those waves stand out
and have my yarn overs lie as flat as I could get them.
And I hope you are inspired to knit up this Sea Foam Wave Knit Stitch Pattern.
It is super cute and pretty and lightweight for summer.
I have an entire Summer Knit Series, make sure to check that out, if you haven't already
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Bye!