The Lace Heart Knit Stitch Pattern
Hi, Guys, I’m Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit!
Valentine’s Day is upon us!
It’s the season of hearts!
I just love the lacy holes that make up our heart pattern.
And this knit stitch pattern is fun for so many knitting projects year round!
You could make a dish cloth, coasters, stitch them up into a blanket, a pillow, or just
keep on going heart after heart to make a nice, long scarf!
For our MATERIALS, use any yarn of your choice, two straight knitting needles of the appropriate
size for your yarn, Scissors, and a Tapestry Needle.
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I'm including the written pattern in the description below, and we are going to have an overview
here and follow along with some of the specifics that I want you to see and I will have the
instructions of what I'm doing on the left side of the screen.
I also have links to all of these knitting techniques that we're doing for our heart
in the description below.
Now, to begin, we make our beloved slip knot and using the long tail cast on method, we
are casting on 21 stitches.
To make this square, I’m going to begin with two rows of the knit stitch for a garter
stitch edge.
Then, I’m going to always knit two stitches on the edges here, while the rest of our piece
is knitted in Stockinette Stitch.
This will help our piece lie a little bit more flat.
Once we have finished our first easy Rows 1 – 5 of Knit and Purls, we are going to
begin the heart pattern.
Here on row six, we start with knitting ten stitches, and we do a yarn over that just
means we take the yarn to the front and the next instruction is SSK that means slip and
then slip and the knit those two stitches.
Now, we're going to have our yarn here in the front from our yarn over.
We take our left needle into the front, bring our yarn around, knit it through and that
is our slip slip knit.
Again, I have knitting techniques in the description below, if this is new to you.
And here on row seven, you will see on every odd row it is just two knit stitches and then
we're bringing our yarn to the front to purl all the way across the row, so we're doing
this every other row and then we finish up on those last two stitches with the knit stitch.
And here we can see the first hole created with our lace pattern.
Very cool!
We are going to, on this one, knit eight stitches, and then we're going to do knit two together.
There we go right there.
And the yarn over again is simply taking our yarn, bringing it to the front, and the next
is just knitting one.
So, let's see, we knit into it and that yarn goes around we knit through and again here
on row eight we have another yarn over and again slip and a slip and then knit by putting
that left needle into the front.
And bring it on through.
And finishing up that row is simply eight knit stitches.
And again, it is the purl row on row nine.
And we continue knitting the pattern with the same knitting techniques that I just shared
with you.
Each row is a little bit different but it's the same technique and here we can see our
lace pattern growing from the bottom of our heart all the way up to the rounded points.
Now, I wanted to show you one extra little technique that we're doing here.
On row twenty, after knitting six, we yarn over so we're going to bring our yarn to the
front and then it's K3 Together, it's just like K2 except three stitches all at the same
time in one fell swoop.
So I just wanted to show this to you, so, super simple, you take those three stitches,
knit right into it, the yarn over is in front there.
And we just wrap it around our needle and knit it on through.
And that's all that there is to it.
Now we just finish up with the stockinette stitch and garter stitches and Bind Off.
And you are done.
And I hope you are inspired to make this lace heart knit stitch pattern yourself.
This is the place where you learn how to knit and most importantly, totally fall in love
with it.
And make sure to check out all of my knitted projects that are perfect for Valentine’s
Day.
Lots of Heart and Love to you all.
Bye!