What stitch pattern is this?

Hello all - thank you for your helpful suggestions for the project I’m working on. I have recently taken up knitting again after years of being away from it. I’m working on a shawl “Broadway Nights” and am wanting to finish it in a stockinette stitch, and using the stitch pattern in this image. It looks like it could be a yo, ssk or maybe a yo, k2tog repeat. Thank you again for your help.image

Beautiful shawl!
The lace chart is a combination of yarn overs, single decreases and double decreases but the upper short short row section is mainly stockinette with decreases near the turns.
Is that upper portion the area you were asking about?

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Yes, the upper portion, in particular the upper edge in the image. I read that if it is a ssk, yo, repeat, the ssk uses more yarn and will result in a stretchier edge. One person’s notes for this project recommends a firmer bind-off like in the Susanna IC crescent shawl, to provide a firmer edge to contrast the stretch that is required for the bottom edge lace points. Sooooo…I think it is a decrease stitch, but which one? ssk or maybe k2tog, followed by a yo to make the holey edge before the bind-off.

And so I would like to finish the shawl in stockinette stitch, with the “holey” row and then bind it off. I was just experimenting with a swatch piece, and it appears that a decrease, yo, row followed by either a purl or knit row and then a bind off row. I tried knitting two rows of stockinette after the holey row followed by a bind off row and that didn’t look right so it looks like one row of stockinette after the holey row and then a bind off row.

I think one row of stockinette after the religious :wink: row would be fine. Did you try binding off immediately after the eyelet row? Sometimes that works out well. As for the best bind off, I’d first try standard pass stitch over one first. I wonder if you’d like an Icelandic bind off. It makes a nice edge IMHO.

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Eyelet row, yes! Now I know what to call it. In the image it looks like it may be bound off immediately after eyelet row, I’m going to try that now on my sample. That Icelandic bind off looks like a great edge, what have you used it on?

I like the edge it makes and use this bind off a lot. I think in the video he mentions it being stretchier than the standard pass stitch over bind off but I’ve not noticed that myself. Sometimes I go up a needle size and sometimes I don’t. If I need the stretch I go with a larger needle.

I’m test knitting a pattern with cables and knit-purl diamond patterning. It started out a huge challenge for me, now it is getting to be boring. Boring means mistakes to fix. Yuck. :frog:

:frog: :frog: :frog:

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I’m a big fan of icelandic hind off.
It is very pretty.
If I do a regular knit bind off I usually go up a a needle size or two to give enough yarn in the bind off but with iceleandic I tend to use the same size needle because it already puts extra yarn into the bind off and the way it is worked is quite loose, you might even prefer it with a slightly smaller needle if you want a firm edge - swatching for the bind off is worth while for such a beautiful shawl.
Iceleandic looks particularly lovely with a reverse stocking stitch or a garter row (your stocking stitch finish will have a reverse stocking stitch on the other side) but I have not used it on open work like this shael fabric but I think it will look lovely. It’s special and considered without shouting.

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I like the Icelandic bind off and I’ve also used Jeny’s bind off for extra stretch.

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