Simple Scalloped Edging

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And I wanna show you this adorable edging. It makes little scallops, but you can knit it straight. And so that's pretty easy. And I wanna show you how to do it.

Now, you can make your scallop every number of stitches that you want. In my case, I did it after every seven stitches. But when you're figuring out your project, you can figure out your stitch multiple. If you want your scalps to be shorter, you would do it more frequently. If you want your scalps to be wider, then you would do it less frequently.

So this is more of an art than a science. So, the first thing I did is I knit two rows for my garter stitch edging on this side. And then I knit four more rows in stocking it. So that's the sample that we have here. And I just want to show you the technique to make the scallops because it's pretty stinking cool if I do say so myself.

So you're going to knit four in my case, one, two, three, four. And now we're gonna make a scallop. So I'm gonna take my right hand needle tip over the work under the work, grab that knit stitch off of the left hand needle, bring it under the work over the work and put it back on the left hand needle. You wanna make sure that the right leg of your stitch stays forward and then you're going to knit it. So there's my first scallop.

Let's do that a couple more times. In my case, I'm going to knit seven and it's way easier than it looks gonna hold on to that working on because I don't wanna make it too loose. I'm gonna take my right hand needle tip over the work under the work. Grab that stitch off the left hand needle, however you grab it is fine, bring it under the work and over the work and pop it back on the left hand needle with the right leg forward and then knit it. So you're not increasing, you're not decreasing.

You're not doing anything crazy or fancy. You're just manipulating that stitch before you work into it one more time because it's a little fiddly. But once you get the hang of it, it's super easy. I could also see this doing with other kind of stitches. Maybe not stocking it in here, maybe a lace stitch.

It's a really fun technique. 567. OK. One last time, right-hand needle tip over the work under the work, grab that stitch off the left hand needle. However, it comes to you is fine under the work, pop it back on the left hand needle, making sure the right leg is forward.

So you don't twist your stitch and then knit it. What I did for my sample that you looked at earlier. I then uh knit one row on the wrong side and did a knit wise bind off to give myself a garter stitch ridge at the top. So this is one of those uh trims that you're going to want to make separately and then so on, it works a little. Um It doesn't really work if you're trying to knit it directly onto a garment, but it's really fun.

I could see this on the edge of like hand towels or baby clothes or a baby blanket. And definitely this is something you want to block because that stitch, let me hold it right there. So you can see it, that stitch you have to sort of finagle your uh finagle your fabric. So it's laying flat. So this is definitely worth blocking when you're done.

But it's a fun little trick and there are all sorts of uses for it. Now that you have the basic technique down on how to make these little scallops. You can experiment with your own stitches on your own projects. Thanks so much for joining me.