Knit Triangle Edging

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And in this video, I'm going to teach you a super simple garter stitch triangle edging that you can add to all of your knit projects. Once you get the hang of the math, you can adjust the triangles to be any size that you want them to be. So you're gonna start by casting on three stitches. We're going to have two stitches that stay in garter stitch.

That would be the part that I would sew on to my project. And then there's gonna be a yarn over and then we're gonna do some, a little bit of triangle math. So you're gonna cast on three stitches, knit two yarn over net one and all the rows where we're headed back to that little two stitch border. Those are always going to be knit rows. So you're either knitting all the stitches or you're doing a yarn over row for the next row.

We're going to knit two yarn over knit two and then knit back, moving on the pattern is always knit to yarn over knit. However many stitches are left. This is how we're building up this side of the triangle and this is what I meant about being able to adjust the triangles to be any size that you want them to be. If I wanted bigger triangles, I could add more rows than I knit when I knit this one. And if I wanted smaller triangles, I could knit fewer rows than I did when I did this one.

So this sample that I had here, I kept going until I had 10 stitches total on my needle knit two, you aren't over knit to the end and knit back. All right. As I said, I wanted to have 10 stitches on my needle. I have nine. So here is my last yarn over row.

And again, you can make your triangles as big or as small as you want to. So is knit two yarn over knit to the end of the row. And this time for the knit back, I'm going to bind off all of the stitches except for three. So however big your triangle is, you wanna leave three stitches at the end. And the way to remember that is, it's the same number that you cast on.

So there I've knit two bound off that stitch. So I'm just gonna do a nice little neat bind off until I have three stitches that remain. So now I have one on my right hand needle and three on the left, gonna knit that yarn over and bind off the last stitch of my triangle knit two. And now I'm ready to start the next repeat, which would be knit two yarn over knit one. And that's all there is to it.

You could knit as many triangles as you want. And because it's garter stitch, it looks terrific on both sides. So it's a great reversible edging, especially for housewares, like pillows or hand towels or curtain tie backs. I'm Mary Beth Temple. Thanks so much for joining me for the triangle edging.