- [Kristen] Want an easy mitered square?
This one works corner to corner.
It is a mock mitered square
in a bicolor, or two color, look.
We're making this on the needles today.
It's an easy pattern.
Instead of a traditional mitered square,
you get the boldness of these two colors here,
and you're gonna be working increases and then decreases
from corner to corner.
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This is an easy-rated pattern,
and I will cover everything that you need to know
for this pattern today.
You're going to need needles and an appropriate weight yarn.
I'm working with a U.S. eight or five millimeter,
and we've got for yarn, a medium four weight yarn.
This is Chic Sheep from Red Heart.
I'm working with color A as Green Tea,
and color B as Poolside.
And you're going to also need some scissors
and a tapestry needle as well for weaving in the ends.
So, grab your supplies and we'll begin.
Let's begin.
We're gonna do a long tail cast-on,
and it's only three stitches.
We're gonna have a slipknot,
and then add on two stitches.
Cast on however you want,
but I recommend long tail cast-on.
Make a long tail,
and I'm gonna wrap this around my finger twice,
take the back loop over the front one time,
and then do it one more time again,
back loop over the front and over the tip of the finger,
makes a slipknot,
and then we're going to place this on our needle,
put the tail part towards you,
and the ball part to the back.
Tighten that up where it's still loose,
but you can, it won't slide off easily.
Okay, we're just gonna grab that,
and split it with our fingers.
And if you need a slower tutorial, click down below,
and also for the knit stitch,
and those are the two stitches
that you need to know how to do,
and I'll guide you through everything else.
So you're gonna pull back on here,
and we're just going to scoop up.
Notice I have my finger on my slipknot here
to keep it still.
We're gonna scoop up at the thumb,
go around to the finger, and come down,
and then come down to the thumb again,
and then let go with just the thumb,
and then tighten it up.
Okay?
Not too tight, it's gonna be loose enough to move.
We're gonna go one more time.
Up to the thumb,
down at the finger, and down at the thumb,
and then let that go, and tighten that up.
And you're done.
So this first row is knit only.
We're just going to knit all the stitches.
The other rows, you'll be increasing,
and then when we get to the halfway point,
we'll be decreasing.
I'll cover how to do everything in this tutorial.
So go ahead and knit.
We're just gonna go right in that first stitch.
Make sure to grab from your ball and not the tail.
So just let me separate these.
Okay, tighten that up.
All right, we're just going to take our yarn,
we're gonna go that needle,
and then pull it on through.
And let the old ones slip off,
and that's how we're gonna make the knit stitch.
So we go in, wrap around, and pull through,
let the old drop off.
And you can slow that down if you need to
with the controls on YouTube.
Okay, so, we've got all three stitches knit.
We're gonna turn it,
and work our main stitch pattern.
Okay, to do the first color,
the first half of it, just like this,
we're going to be increasing at the beginning of each row,
okay, and then when we get to the decrease,
we're gonna be color changing and then doing a decrease,
so the first color is all the same rows,
so we're going to
knit in the front and back.
So we're going to knit the first stitch,
and don't let it drop off.
We knit the first stitch,
and then we're going to take our needle
and push it around to the back,
putting our needle in the back.
You don't have to flip it like that every time,
I'm just doing that to show you.
So you put your needle around back,
yarn over, and pull through.
Just like that.
Okay?
And then we're going to knit to the end of the row.
So we've got one, two.
And when there's so few stitches,
I just keep my finger on the back of those stitches
to keep them from sliding off.
So you're gonna turn,
and then we're gonna do it again.
Knit into the first stitch, yarn over,
take that tip, and pivot around to the back,
keeping that stitch on there, go around to the back.
Notice I've got my thumb on this stitch,
it keeps it in place.
All right, and then now we're just gonna knit that stitch.
And there we go, so we can let that drop off.
And now you're just going to knit
all the stitches to the end of the row.
And now we have five stitches on our needles,
turn, and continue.
Let's do one more.
Let me slow this down.
Go into the stitch, yarn over,
pull it through, twist,
and go to the back.
Put our needle in the back,
yarn over, and pull it through,
just like that, and knit to the end.
Okay, so you're gonna continue this on
until you have 56 stitches,
or, you can measure,
if you wanna make an eight by eight size,
which is what I'm doing,
you can measure from here to here
until you have 5 1/2 inches.
You can also measure the side here,
so you can measure from here to here.
All right, continue on,
and I'll meet you when you have 56 stitches.
See you soon.
All right, so I have knitted to where
from the tip to the middle I have 5 1/2 inches,
or from the side, it measures eight inches.
So, just going right here,
it's eight inches, which is also 20 centimeters.
And in the middle here is 5 1/2.
So, that's going to give me an eight by eight square.
You can work it until you get to the length you want,
but along this edge here is where the square side will be.
So whatever your length here
is what your total size of your square is going to equal.
Okay?
So, let's grab our color B, or contrast B,
and let's add this color in,
and we'll be working on our first decrease row.
I'm gonna grab my yarn and leave a tail at the back here.
And I'm going to put my needle in that first stitch there.
And it helps if you can grab your other yarn
and hold it at the back with your other tail,
and give yourself some tension on that stitch.
Okay, so we're just going to yarn over
and pull through that very first stitch.
So we're gonna knit one,
and now we're going to knit two together.
So take these first two stitches,
and knit them together,
and that's our decrease.
And then you're going to knit to the end of the row.
All right? That's it.
That is all you have to do
until you have three stitches left.
I'll go ahead and do that for you one more time
on our next row,
and then you can see what my join looks like here.
So, continue, and I'll meet you back up
at the beginning of the next row.
See you soon.
All right, let's just repeat that one more time,
so we're going to be knitting one,
and then we knit two together.
Just go in those stitches, yeah, just like that.
And knit, and then knit to the end.
So continue that until you have three stitches left,
and I'll meet you back up at that point.
I'm actually gonna go until I have four stitches left
so you'll see what that looks like, okay?
So this is what it looks like on the right side.
The right side is always the side
that you did the color change on the knit row.
And we'll see you back up
when you get to those last four stitches.
All right, we're down to our last four stitches.
I'm going to knit one, knit two together.
And knit the third one.
Turn it.
Okay.
And now we're just going to knit three together.
Okay, you don't even have to do a center double decrease.
You can if you want, if you know how to do that.
Just go on through all three stitches.
Just like that.
Oop, split my yarn.
Okay, there we go.
And then you can go through and knit it one more time,
and that is going to be where you clip it.
Cut your tail, and then just pull it on through.
And then you'll just weave in that tail,
and you have your final square.
So once you weave in your tails,
you have a wonderful, nice, perfect square.
You can go ahead and seam these up
with other squares that look the same,
and come up with a big chevron pattern,
or whatever you'd like to do,
make it look like a little quilt,
just have fun with it, make it for anything.
It can be a quilt, a shawl, a bag, whatever.
I'm excited to show you this today.
I'm so glad that you joined me.
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that we'll be coming out with.
I'm going to show you how to make
a traditional mitered square,
and also a striped.
And with your knowledge of a striped,
you can do all these other type of designs,
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