The simple seed stitch knitting pattern.
Hi, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel
Studio Knit.
The simple seed stitch is a vintage pattern.
You can see that there is the smooth stock
in that background and it's punctuated by alternating rows
of little raised purl seed stitches.
Here's the swatch that I'll be knitting up with you shortly.
And you'll see that I actually added a row of garter border
On the bottom and on the sides.
So that helps a stockinette stitch
which tends to curl lie flat.
It also is really helpful if you do a light blocking
to allow it to lie as flatly as my blue stitch pattern
does right here.
You can see that these little raised seed stitches
are very subtle and it's not as obvious
as the bottle stitch.
So you may wish to use this as a template
to make tiny little bobble stitches from my last video.
If you're happy to have a new vintage knit and purl
stitch pattern, please like up this video
it really helps me out.
For your knitting materials, simply use yarn
and appropriately sized knitting needles
along with scissors and a tapestry needle.
The written pattern is available for you totally for free
over on my website.
I'll have a link for you in the description below.
It is also available in my Knit Stitch pattern book
available both in print and digitally as an ebook.
This is an eight row repeat,
so you will find it in the six to 10 row repeat section.
There are 50 patterns total in this book,
and here on page 36, you will find the simple seed stitch
and it tells you everything you need to know.
There is a large color photo, and it has the cast on
or casting on in multiples of four.
We also have a knitting chart if you'd like to read those
and instructions to knit flat and in the round.
Again this is also available on my website
totally for free.
Again, I've added a garter stitch border that is just
the knit stitch on the bottom and on the sides
to help my piece lie flat.
And let's begin with row one,
something I've cast on four stitches.
And row one will be K3, P1.
So that is knitting three stitches, and I have those first
two stitches there for the garter border.
So I'm knitting three stitches one, two, three,
and then bringing my yarn to the front of my needles
for that one little purl one,
and that is our little seed stitch,
our little simple seed stitch here for this pattern.
And with these four stitches, we just repeat it
all the way down the row.
Row two is purling all of the stitches.
This is on the wrong side, the backside of our work,
just like we do when we knit the stockinette stitch.
And then flipping over to row three on the right side
of our work, we are knitting all, really super simple.
And row four is purling all.
So again, you're bringing your yarn to the front of the work
and purling all of your stitches.
So let's take a look.
We can see where we added the little simple seeds stitches
right there.
Really cute, very, very subtle.
Now row five, we are adding the seed stitch again
and we're doing K1, P1.
So here's our little purl one seed stitch
and then knitting two.
And this allows that second row of the simple seed stitch
to alternate from the first row, row one.
And then we're just finishing up again,
just like the stockinette stitch pattern on row six.
We are purling all, row seven, knitting all of our stitches
and row eight purling all.
And continue this pattern, rows one through eight,
until your piece is the length you desire.
I hope you are inspired to knit up the simple seeds
stitch pattern, it's a great choice for knitting up blankets
and pillows with a little pop of texture
onto that stockinette stitch background.
Thank you so much for watching
and I will see you here next time.
Bye.
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