The Parallelogram Knit Stitch Pattern!
Hello I'm Kristen and welcome to Studio Knit
This is an easy level project great for
beginners because we are using only knits and purls the parallelogram shape
has opposite sides both parallel and equal in length creating beautiful
symmetry as a result the diagonals of the parallelogram bisect each other with
congruent triangle shapes so it looks like intersecting chevron shapes are
emerging and it is a reversible pattern that means that both the front the right
and the back the wrong sides of our work are identical and it looks great for
scarves especially or I want to show you how nicely the design looks when you
lightly block it so this is the little swatch that I'm knitting up later in
this video and it has not been blocked and let's compare it to this larger
piece that I've knitted and blocked and you can see how beautifully the yarn
drapes the design just falls into place and the piece has a really nice finished
look this is a 16 row repeat so you will
definitely want to get those written instructions the parallelogram stitch is
one of 50 knit stitch patterns that are included in my new book so I have a
printed version that is currently available to people in the United States
there also is an eBook version it's a digital PDF download and all 50 patterns
are in there additionally if you hop over to my website totally for free you
can scroll down to the bottom of the page and there is a knitting pattern
card you just hit print and you can print the
pattern directly so you have a nice printed version as you knit this up I'll
have the links to the pattern book as well as my website for the free
printable pattern in the description and all of these patterns include the
written instructions both knitting flat on straight needles as well as knitting
in the round on circular needles if you would like to do that with this pattern
and that chart the visual knitting chart is included for you also sometimes
that's a really great alternative for your materials you can use any yarn and
appropriately sized knitting needles I'm using size 7 here you'll also want have
scissors and a tapestry needle on hand so let's knit it up to begin we are
casting on I am going to use the method with no slip knot that I recently posted
and we are casting on in multiples of 12 that's 12 stitches this is the longtail
cast on method I'll have all the techniques linked below so once you have
12 stitches on your needle you can continue to add more stitches to your
needle in multiples of 12 so for this example I'm going to do two multiples of
12 so I'm adding 12 more for a total of 24 for this little knitted swatch Row 1
so you'll see the asterisks there that means we're repeating between the
asterisks so we start with 1 knit K 1 means you just knit one time then we
bring our yarn to the front because we're purling P 5 we are doing the purl
stitch 5 times so this is 2 right here 3
four and five and then on Row one we will be bringing our yarn to the back
put it right in between those needles and we are knitting five stitches and
I'll be sharing the the first 12 stitches on every row we have 16 rows so
you can just sit back and watch or you can come back refer to this when you are
actually knitting it up yourself and here is the last stitch it's just a p1
so we have knitted 12 stitches total and we have 12 more to go you just repeat
that exact same pattern all the way down the row until all of your multiples of
12 are knitted up so now we have Row 2 and we begin with K 2 that is knit 2 and
then we'll bring our yarn to the front 2 P 4 P 4 is purling 4 that is 4 purl
stitches now we can bring our yarn to the back for 4 knit stitches and lastly
we bring our yarn to the front again to finish up this multiple of 12 with two
purl stitches purling once and then twice ok row two you just continue
repeating that series down the row and row three this is nice and easy
let me get that little yarn tail out of the way ok we are knitting three
stitches and purling three stitches so this is six stitches we're repeating
between those asterisks so we are going to be doing all 12
in k3 p3 and then again K 3 p3 continue this all the way down your row row 4
we're beginning with knitting 4 stitches 1 2 3 & 4 then we bring our yarn to the
front and we are purling 2 stitches bring our yarn to the back and we are
knitting 2 stitches
all right finishing up this multiple of 12 by purling four stitches and I really
like doing patterns like this that have really neat designs all you have to do
is follow the pattern and then a really cool design will emerge in our
parallelogram knit stitch pattern so Row 5 we're beginning with 5 knit stitches 2
3 4 & 5 and then one purl stitch and then you want to pay attention we just
have one knit stitch right here and then we're finishing up with 5 purl stitches
p5 purling 5 so that's 2 3 4 & 5
alright continue that for the multiples of 12 that you have remaining on your
needle and oh this is great so rows 6 7 & 8
are identical so the multiple of 12 is k6p 6 so we are knitting 6 stitches and
purling 6 stitches and repeating this pattern of 12 stitches not only all the
way down row six here but then we are going to do the exact same pattern k6p
six knitting six purling six four rows seven and eight and instead of having
you sit here and watch me do those two rows we're going to skip ahead to row
nine and here is how our pattern is shaping up we're half way through really
pretty now row nine we're starting with pearls this time so you'll want to make
sure you have that yarn in the front for that very first pearl 1p one stitch and
then we are continuing on with k5 that is knitting five stitches okay let's
bring our yarn in the middle of our needles to the front so that we can purl
5 stitches and scootch our yarn down our needles there so we're purling two three
four and five and then just finishing up this multiple of 12 with knit one K 1 is
knit one and you know the drill you just continue this multiple of 12
all the way down your row now row 10 again you have that yarn in the front
because you're beginning with a purl stitch and I'm having a little bit of
trouble with this one okay purling two stitches to begin row ten bringing our
yarn to the back and then it's K four so we're knitting four stitches two three
and four okay let's bring that yarn to the front for the P four that's purling
four stitches
three and four and then we will bring our yarn to the back to finish up row
ten here with two knit stitches knit one and knit two repeat this pattern all the
way down the row for all of your multiples of 12 and row 11 is another of
those easy ones where it's just p3 we're starting with purling this time P 3 and
then K 3 and that's knitting 3 and this series of 6 stitches just continues to
repeat all the way down the row
okay row 12 again we're beginning purling so our yards in the front and we
are purling four stitches one and two
three and up okay and then we have two knit stitches k2 so we are knitting once
and knitting twice bring our yarn in between the noodles to the front and we
have two purl stitches one and two and then four knit stitches k4 one two up
three and four okay we are in the homestretch now everybody let's see how
it's shaping up oh it's looking really good the design is definitely emerging
those like chevron shapes those diagonals the parallelograms all kinds
of awesome geometry going on here and row thirteen we're purling five stitches
so of course you always want to begin with your yarn in the front when you
have the purling to begin your row and we have one knit stitch and then we have
just one purl stitch so we just bring our yarn to the front purl that one
stitch right there bring it to the back and we are knitting five stitches here
on row 13 so let's finish this up and we will repeat this pattern between the
asterisks until you complete all multiples of 12 on your needle okay
here's another one of those fun ones where we're doing the exact same thing
for three rows and we're beginning with purling p6 purling six stitches and we
then continue by purling nope and then we knit six stitches
and we are going to do this p6 k-6 not only on row 14 but we do the exact same
pattern on row 15 and row 16 of course you have your written instructions I
also have that knitting chart you can refer to if you enjoy reading at
knitting charts and once you have finished row 16 you are done with those
16 rows and you just repeat starting again on Row 1 and continue knitting
your piece until it is the length that you desire and here is how it looks on
the right side the front of our work if we turn it around it looks virtually
identical on the wrong side the backside of our work so I think this is just a
really great pattern for scarves one color scarves as well as blankets where
you can see both sides of your piece and you can see that the shapes and the
different textures it's just a really great complex looking pattern but we're
only using knits and pearls so thank you so much for watching I'm very excited to
share my new knit stitch pattern book with everybody this season I hope you
check it out I will see you here next time guys. Bye!