Ruffled Edging

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And in this video, I'm going to talk to you about ruffled edging. I love a ruffle on a blanket on the bottom of a sweater. Any place you can put it and they're really simple to do. But I will warn you, it's some tedious knitting and it takes a lot of yarn. So this is what we call a 5 to 1 ruffle. So I took five stitches and put them in each one of the knit stitches of the piece. I was joining it to, I had just put a couple of garter stitch rows on here. So I'd have something to work on. So this is super roughly. Now, the longer the ruffle is the less wave you get. So if I was making a long ruffle, this kind of 5 to 1 is exactly what I did and I'm gonna show you how to do that. Uh But if you wanted a less ruffly ruffle because it was gonna be short or you don't want quite that much fullness. You could also do 3 to 1 using the same technique I'm about to show you. So all I'm going to do is do my increase. So you have two choices here. Um Again, I just have a couple of rows of garter stitch. You can either pretend this is the garment that you're working on and knit your ruffle right on there or you could do what I did, you could make a garter stitch piece or maybe just one row and make this and then sew it on later. So what I'm going to do for every single stitch is take one stitch and I'm gonna turn it into five and to do that, I'm going to do a knit yarn over knit yarn over knit increase because a knit front and back or a make one, they tend to get bulky at the top and I don't want it to be bulky at the top. So I'm going to knit and not pass my stitch off the left hand needle yarn over knit one more time in the same stitch and still not pass it off the left hand needle yarn over knit one more time in that same stitch. And then I'm going to pass it off the left hand needle. So I've taken one stitch and I have turned it into five. Let's see that one more time. Net yarn over net yarn over net, push it off the left hand needle. Now, what if I wanted that uh, less wavy ruffle that I was talking about earlier? Then in that case, I would probably take it from 1 to 3. I would go knit yarn over knit and pass it off. Net. OK. Yarn over net. So that's all there is to it. Moving forward. I'm going to go ahead and just work in stock in that stitch. As long as I want that ruffle to be, then you can bind it off in stock in it or add any kind of edging. You want maybe a PICO edge, maybe a garter stitch edge. But the reason we did those yarn over is look how little fabric there is at the tippy top up by where it joins and you wanna have that looseness because you want the fabric to wave and not just turn into a clown collar. So I hope you enjoyed learning about putting ruffles on your knitting.