The diagonal seed stitch.
Hi, I'm Kristen,
and welcome back to my channel, Studio Knit.
This diagonal seed stitch knitting pattern
is an easy texture.
It has a stockinette background
punctuated with these diagonal rows of the seed stitch.
It's a six-row repeat
and an easy level project
because it's a simple combination of just knits and purls.
And this is not a reversible pattern
because you can see that the right side of our work
displays the design of the diagonal seeds
but the wrong does not.
It looks different than the front,
the right side of our work.
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For your knitting materials,
use any yarn that you would like
with appropriately-sized knitting needles
and, of course, scissors and a tapestry needle.
The written pattern
can be found on my website totally for free.
I'll have the link down below.
It's also in my "Knit Stitch" pattern book.
I have 50 different patterns here.
This is in the six-row repeat section
and you can see that I include a full color photo
along with how many you need to cast on,
a knitting chart,
and written instructions
to knit both flat and in the round.
So let's knit it up.
We are casting on multiple of six stitches.
So put six stitches on your needle
as many times as you would like.
I'm just going to do it twice here.
Row one is P1, K5.
We're purling one,
so our yarn is in the front,
and we're purling the very first stitch of this pattern.
Then bring your yarn to the back
and knit five stitches.
So the P1 and the K5,
those are the multiples of six.
Ugh, I have some wool roving,
so (chuckles) sometimes it gets stuck on my needles.
And after you do P1, K5,
you're going to repeat the pattern between the asterisks,
that's those little stars there in the written pattern,
and you repeat it one more time
or however many multiples of six you have on your needle.
So that's row one.
That's the right side of your work.
And then turn your needle.
Of course, I'm showing the example
of knitting flat with straight needles.
Row two is purling four.
So, again, we're beginning with the yarn in the front
and we're going to purl four stitches.
One, two, three, and four right here.
And then bring our yarn to the back
so that you're knitting one
and then just finishing up by purling one.
Again, this is that multiple of six stitches.
So you continue to knit this pattern
all the way down the row.
So, again, you do P4, K1, P1,
until you get to the end.
And here we have row three.
We're starting with our yarn to the back
because we're starting with knitting knit two.
Knit one and two stitches.
And then scooching my yarn,
bringing it to the front,
just purling that one little stitch,
and finishing this pattern K3.
That's knitting three stitches.
And continue this pattern of multiple of six
all the way down the row.
And we're halfway done already
and our little diagonal seeds are starting to appear.
And here on row four,
we're beginning with purl two.
So we have our yarn in the front.
We are purling two stitches, P2,
bringing the yarn to the back
so that we can knit one stitch,
and then bringing our yarn to the front.
This wool roving is a little weird to knit with sometimes.
And purling three stitches.
And that is our series of six stitches
for this pattern on row four,
and then just continue knitting this
all the way down to the end of your row.
And we're going to turn our needles and get to row five.
We're almost there.
We're beginning with K4.
We are knitting four stitches.
And as you've probably figured out,
the P, the purl one on the right side of our work
on the front here
is what creates that seed stitch,
that diagonal seed stitch.
So that's why every single row is different than the next,
because that purl stitch needs to appear diagonally
all the way up the rows.
And then we are going to turn our work after row five
to finish up on the wrong side
for this stitch pattern on row six.
And this is an easy one.
It is knitting one and purling five.
So we just knit one stitch and purl five
and continue this pattern of multiple of six
until you've completed all of the stitches on your needle.
So this is how our little swatch is knitting up
with those six rows
and then it's a six-row repeat.
So you just start with row one again
and knit it up until it's the length that you desire.
I want to show you
that because it's a stockinette stitch background,
it does tend to curl up.
So I like to use a little garter stitch border.
Also, blocking your work can be really helpful.
Let me show you here on the back
how it just naturally wants to sort of curl up on itself
because the majority of the stitches are stockinette.
So just keep that in mind,
that you will have to work a little bit harder
if you want it to lie perfectly flat on its own.
I hope you are inspired
to give this diagonal seed stitch a try.
Again, the written patten is totally for free on my website.
It's also in my new "Knit Stitch" pattern book.
Please check it out.
It has 50 knit and purl super easy patterns for beginners.
And I will see you here next time.
Bye.
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