Mastering the knit stitch!

On Good Friday, I took a trip to Milton Keynes to enter the world of Hobbycraft. As you can imagine, I was in dreamland. I've been meaning to get myself back into knitting for a good while now so I invested in some good quality yarn for the sake of it.

Before this investment, I was desperately craving to revisit knitting after all these absent years. So, I rummaged through old bins that were stored in my room and realised a couple of balls of yarn that I wasn't aware was even in existence.

Below is an extraordinarily poor quality photo of my very first sample of a moss stitch with the yarn I found. This stitch is achieved with a combination of knit and purl stitches, following a consistent and repetitive pattern that produces a sort of cross hatch surface.

The sample was attained from following the knit stitch pattern:

Rows 1 and 4: K1, * p1, k1; rep from * to end of row.

Rows 2 and 3: P1,* k1, p1; rep from * to end of row.

Credits to this website.

Following this, I attempted the basket weave knit stitch using the cream yarn I purchased from hobbycraft. This yarn was pure heaven to manipulate with and I am tempted to see how it would react to dye or even stitch into on my sewing machine as further development!

The knit stitch pattern follows:

Cast On in Multiples of 6

Row 1: Knit

Row 2: Purl

Row 3: * K1, P4, K1 *

Row 4: * P1, K4, P1 *

Row 5: * K1, P4, K1 *

Row 6: * P1, K4, P1 *

Row 7: Knit

Row 8: Purl

Row 9: * P2, K2, P2 *

Row 10: * K2, P2, K2 *

Row 11: * P2, K2, P2 *

Row 12: * K2, P2, K2 *

Repeat Rows 1 – 12 until your piece is the length you desire.

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The Diamond Brocade has a gorgeous pattern and a lovely texture too!

The pattern is as follows:

Row 1: (Right side) Knit 4, *purl 1, k 7; repeat from * until 5 stitches remain, purl 1, knit 4

Rows 2 and 8: (Wrong side) Purl 3, *k 1, purl 1, knit 1, purl 5; repeat from * until 6 stitches remain, knit 1, p1, k1, purl 3

Rows 3 and 7: K 2, *purl 1, knit 3; repeat from * until 3 stitches remain, p 1, knit 2

Rows 4 and 6: Purl 1, *knit 1, p 5, knit 1, purl 1; repeat from * to end.

Row 5: *Purl 1, knit 7; repeat from * until 1 stitch remains, purl 1.

Row 8: Purl 3, *knit 1, p 1, knit 1, purl 5; repeat from * until 6 stitches remain, k 1, purl 1, knit 1, purl 3.

Repeat rows 1 - 8 for this diamond stitch pattern.

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Additional appliances to this sample may enhance its texture and visual qualities of the knit stitches such as the prominent cross effect but a part of me likes the simplicity. It's somewhat pleasing to see the construction of the stitches.