Introducing my new heart cable knit scarf pattern! Hello, I'm Kristen and
welcome back to my channel STUDIO KNIT. My cable heart stitch
pattern is really popular with you so I thought you'd enjoy a project pattern
using this stitch and it's just in time for Valentine's Day we're knitting with
super bulky yarn and large needles so this project knits up quickly and looks
really impressive the finished size of our scarf is 7 inches wide and then I
knitted mine about 72 inches in length so I did 12 hearts until I reached the
middle and then I did another 12 heart so you can totally customize the length
of your scarf if you like this knitting project and would like to see more
please like up this video it really helps me out to knit this scarf
you will definitely need to get the written pattern so I have it totally for
free over on my website I also have instructions on how to get the printable
pattern on my website as well you'll see that I use a color-coded system both in
the written and the chart patterns which help you easily discern those six
different cable stitches at a glance knitters have told me that they love it
and I really hope that it helps you too for our materials we are using super
bulky weight yarn that's number six you can do it in any fiber color of your
choice I have links down in the description below our knitting needles
are size 11 which is 8 millimeter they are just straight needles and you'll
want to have them at least 10 inches in length or longer you'll also want a
cable needle scissors and a tapestry needle oh and I'm also using blocking
mats which really help make the design lie flat and look beautiful I wanted to
point out that it is not a reversible pattern because the heart design only
on the right side of your work however on the wrong side it looks really pretty
too there's this nice smooth stockinette design so if your scarf flips over it
will also look beautiful on the wrong side so just a little overview this
pattern has 24 stitches that we cast on and we start with just two rows of the
garter stitch so you knit all the way up until the mid point of your scarf
however long you'd like it to be and then it's time to switch to section 3
which is knitting those heart pattern repeats in the opposite direction and
then once you're done section 4 has a row of cabling knits and pearls and then
two rows of that garter stitch and you simply bind off after cutting my yarn
and weaving in all my ends I like to block it to shape and these mats are
great because they're interlocking so for a long piece like this I can
continually block the entire scarf for this long long length and I just first
got it wet pinned it down and allowed it to dry naturally for 24 hours now the
edges were curling up just a little bit too much for me so I finished it off by
doing a little light steaming just on the edges using a wet towel and my iron
you also can add yarn fringe that's totally optional it looks great either
way I added about 7 inches of yarn fringe so you can do it however you'd
like I did three strands and just using my fingers I pulled it through the back
of my work and then looped it on through tied it off and once I had all of the
yarn fringe on one edge I went ahead and cut everything so that they were
uniformly at the same length
so you'll need the pattern as I mentioned here it begins with some knits
and pearls and I'm going to be demonstrating the cable stitches so that
as you go along if you have any questions on exactly what to do you can
refer to this video at any time so the first one we encounter is c4b
that means that we take our cable needle we take two stitches and we take it to
the back our cable needle is in the back and then it's k2 from our main needle so
holding that cable needle in the back we are going to knit two stitches from our
main knitting needle pretending like that cable needles not even there
and now we switch and from the cable needle we are going to knit two stitches
and if cabling is new to you this might be a little bit of a challenge but I
know you're totally up for it just systematically go through the pattern
stitch by stitch and you will see you're pretty hard emerge it's really cool now
the next one is C for F that means that we're holding the cable needle to the
front so we take those two stitches we hold the cable needle to the front we
pretend like it's not even there as we knit two stitches from our main knitting
needle and then we take the cable needle and sometimes it's a little bit of a
stretch and you knit two stitches directly off your cable needle and then
you just continue on with the knits and pearls in the pattern here is how it's
shaping up this is our even row I just wanted to point out that the even rows
are knitting the knits and purling the pearls if that's something that you're
familiar with but it's great you can just go ahead and you don't have to
refer to the pattern you can easily knit those knit stitches and right there you
see those little pearl stitches and you just go along on all of the even
rows knitting minutes and purling the pearls okay our third cable stitch that
we encounter in the pattern is cr4 B okay so that means cable right for back
so taking two stitches and holding the cable needle to the back and then
because we are knitting we need to bring that yarn through the back and off of
our main knitting needle we are going to knit two stitches right here from our
main knitting needle and once we've completed that we take our cable needle
and we're going to be purling two stitches from the cable needle so we'll
bring our yarn to the front and this is another one that requires a little bit
of a stretch it can be a little bit of a tight squeeze
but you are in control of the yarn you will make it happen and you just purl
those two stitches right there off of your cable needle
okay we're halfway there our fourth cable needle it's C outlaw rep so we're
taking the cable and we're holding it to the front and we're going to be purling
two stitches off of our main knitting needles to begin with
and then we bring our yarn to the back because we are taking our cable needle
and we are going to knit two stitches from the cable needle and let's take a
minute to admire our work now already after just three rows of our cable
stitch our heart is starting to emerge it's the bottom part of the heart and
let's keep going so our fifth cable stitch is cr3 back so we are taking just
one stitched on our cable needle and holding it to the back and then we are
knitting two stitches right here from our main needle and then we're gonna
finish it up with that one stitch from the cable needle
we take our yarn of course we need to bring it to the front because this is a
purl stitch and we purl it once right here off of our cable needle again
that's another little tight squeeze to accomplish that stitch and I want to
show you right here in the middle you know there's that pretty little cable
that runs up the middle of the hearts and this is a stitch that we've already
done but I just want to point out that we are doing this twice to accomplish
that and the first time is here on row five okay final cable stitch to review
so it is CR three F that is holding two stitches on our cable needle in the
front and then it's just one purl stitch off of our main needle right here and
we're going to bring our yarn around to the back because we finish it up with
the cable needle and it's two stitches off the cable needle this one's a little
bit of a stretch it's not too tight so I hope you are inspired to create this
beautiful texture of interlocking hearts for your next gift filled with love
please check out my other beautiful knitting designs
and I will see you next time.
BYE!