Little Arrowhead Lace Stitch Pattern

Hi I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. In this video, let's take a look at the little Arrowhead lace stitch pattern. It's a beautiful stitch pattern that's pretty easy to work because it's only a four-row repeat and two of those rows you're just purling on the wrong side. So let's go ahead and get started on the little Arrowhead lace stitch pattern. So here I have the Arrowhead lace stitch pattern. You can see that it's a beautiful all over stitch pattern. I just worked a little garter stitch around the edge for my swatch, but it has a beautiful overall pattern to it in this bulky yarn it almost has a little bit of texture too which I really like. So this pattern is a four row repeat. So you'll just be repeating those four rows over and over and over again. And here it's pretty easy to see as you keep having these sort of these coming together or upside down these coming together. So on the wrong side row of the stitch pattern you're gonna be purling all the stitches. And then on the right side row, you'll just be knitting and doing a few different other stitches in order to create the pattern. So let's go ahead and take a look at the chart. This is the chart for the little Arrowhead stitch pattern. And you can see here that you really can almost see how those Vs are formed. So here is my sk2p and that's here where it comes together right there. So looking at the chart you can see, that it's a repeat of six stitches plus one. So in order to work this stitch pattern you need a multiple of six stitches plus one on the needle. What the plus one does is it centers your stitch pattern on your fabric so that it's even on along both edges. So to start, we're going to be knitting one and then we're gonna yarn over slip slip knit, knit one, knit two together, yarn over, knit one. Then we're gonna go back to the beginning of the red box because that's marking our stitch repeat. And then we're gonna yarn over SSK knit one, knit two together, yarn over, knit one. Again, depending on the number of stitches on our needle, we just keep going back to the beginning of the red box, working this way like this. And then because we're working this flat, on the wrong side row, we're gonna just work across this way. And those are all purls on the wrong side as you can see in our key here. When we get to row three then, we're gonna knit this first stitch and then start the repeat of knit one, yarn over, sk2p, yarn over, knit two, knit one, yarn over, sk2p, yarn over, knit two. And you can see that I also have the written instructions down here as well. So now let's go ahead and actually start knitting this thing. Here I have my little swatch that I've started and I haven't actually put any sort of garter stitch edge along this little swatch. We're gonna work. I'm just gonna go ahead and work only the little Arrowhead lace pattern for you. So row one is a right side row. We're gonna knit one, yarn over, SSK that slip, slip knit. Slip, slip, knit. Knit one. Knit two together. Yarn over, knit one. So you can see here we have one, two, three, four, five six, seven. So this first stitch was that single stitch that was on our chart. And then the next six stitches are the six stitches that were in the pattern repeat. So now we're just gonna keep repeating those six stitches. Yarn over, slip, slip, knit. Knit one, knit two together. Yarn over, knit one. And we'll do one more repeat of that. Yarn over, slip, slip, knit. Knit one, knit two together, yarn over, knit one. So that completes our first row of the little Arrowhead lace. So now we're just gonna flip back over to the wrong side and I'm just gonna purl all of these stitches. So it's nice on the wrong side rows you don't have any other stitches to worry about in the stitch pattern except purling the rows. Whatever knitting pattern that you have that has this stitch pattern may have other stitches on the wrong side roll. For example, in my swatch, I had a garter stitch border. So the first three and last three stitches I would have been knitting on the wrong side. But for the actual pattern itself you're always just purling on the wrong side. So now we come back around to the right side of our work and we are ready to work row three. So for row three, we start with a knit one. And then we go into our stitch repeat of knit one, yarn over, slip one, knit two together, pass the slip stitch over. That's the sk2p. Yarn over, knit two. Then we start the sixth stitch repeat again, knit one, yarn over, sk2p by slipping one, knitting two together, pass the slip stitch over, yarn over, knit two. And one more time on this swatch knit one, yarn over, slip one, knit two together, pass the slip stitch over. Hopefully it looks like, looks like I dropped a little strand of this bulky yarn here. You can see here, just sort of split the yarn. We wanna go ahead and fix that. So then we'll slip one, knit two together, pass the slip stitch over, yarn over and knit two. So that's row three. And then turning it over to the wrong side we're gonna work row four just by purling all these stitches. I really like doing these types of lace patterns in my projects because you're purling on the wrong side sort of gives your mind a little bit of a break when you're concentrating on those right side rows to do all of those different types of stitches to make lace in your knitting. I like doing stitch patterns then that the wrong side row is like a rest row and you don't really have to think too much. You just need to purl across like I'm doing here. And there we go. And so at this point we've worked all four rows of the stitch pattern. So then you would just go back to row one. So we would just work the next row, row one would start with that knit one. And then we'd go into our sixth stitch repeat of yarn over SSK knit one at two together yarn over knit one and keep it repeating that. And so you just would keep going rows one through four, one through four, one through four, until you had a beautiful piece of fabric that had this beautiful stitch pattern on it. And there you go. You can see, it really is pretty easy. And that's why I really love this stitch pattern especially for people that are new to lace because I think it's pretty easy as you only have to worry about two rows on the right side and what stitches are gonna be working because the wrong side, you're just purling. I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I look forward to seeing you back here again, real soon.