I’m a beginner knitter and I’m in need of a lotta help please. I want to end my scarf with a design roughly like this. Can someone help make me a knitting instruction sheet?
For example at the start of the V, something like…
Row 1: K1P1, K43, P1K1
Row 2: P2, P1K1, etc…
It starts as a stockinette and I want it to taper into an embossed V pattern but the overall width of the scarf does not change, with 4 or 5 ribs 5 stitches wide going down from the V to the bottom. I also need to find a stitch to prevent the bottom edges from curling because the stockinette already does, and I don’t want the bottom diamonds and the ribbed part to curl. If you can, can you make the V at least two stitches wide? Also, the bottom tapers outwards.
I don’t know how to alternate stitches in order to create that V pattern. Every time I switch to a purl in the middle of a knit row, or knit in the middle of a purl row, it creates some sort of twisted loop that messes up my stitch count. I also want a raised diamond shape inside the larger diamond if that’s possible, otherwise I can improvise after finishing.
All I remember right now are the purl and knit, but I successfully made a foot long cabled scarf segment before, so I can learn other stitches by myself. If you can provide the name of different stitches, I’ll try them.
If so, divide sts evenly into 5 sections.
Then K1, BO2, K3, BO4, K 5 (#s represent the five sections).
Then work the live sections (1,3,5) individually. Increase on each end of the row, for a few rows to widen. Then decease on each end of the row, till you get to the point. BO.
If by free standing, you mean they aren’t connected to each other, then yes, the diamonds are free standing. It’s like 3 tassels.
By dividing into 5 sections, do you mean like, section 1 is 9 stitches wide, section 2 is 9 stitches, section 3 is 11 stitches, section 4 is 9 stitches, section 5 is also 9 stitches?
Do I do the same thing when I alternate rows and flip the scarf? (I mean like stockinette, one side is knit, while the other is purl, so do I do the exact same pattern on both sides?)
Is this for the V or just the diamonds?
Thanks for your help!
This is probably going to be easier to start at the top and maybe that’s what you 're thinking of doing. For the V, your idea sounds good to knit a k1p1 rib at the edges with stockinette between. The rib will increase and gradually eat into the area of stockinette until you’ve completed the V. The rib also decreases towards the edges which revert to stockinette to help shape the narrow line of the V.
For the tassels which looks like a very clever design, you could work essentially a k5p5 rib (p5k5 on the reverse side). With the 47 sts cast on it actuall works out to k6-p5-k5-p5-k5-p5-k5-p5-k6.
Then you get to the diamonds which will require a bit of shaping as the outer two flare out a bit before the diamond shape. You might try an example of the diamonds on a swatch to see what the shaping should be and if you can avoid curling (perhaps by using seed stitch here?). You might also consider doing the V in seed stitch as well since it is rather narrow and this may echo the diamonds should you decide to use seed on them.
