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Ok, so today we're going to look at the dropped garter stitch. You can see an example here that I'm working on for a t-shirt
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And you can see I've done some rosogarter stitch just to give it some structure and then the drop stitch
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And it does look really scary but actually it's surprisingly easy. So I'll talk you through how I've done this one so far, another piece that I've got here
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So I'm working with this DK yarn, this paint box yarn, I'll leave a link for that below
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You can work with any yarn you like, I just find that working with the cotton gives a little bit of slip
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and that gives a nice structure to the drop stitch and allows it to move nicely
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So I'm working on a 4mm needle but you can certainly go up a size or two to give it a bit more drape if you're looking for a summery pattern
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so it doesn't really matter how many stitches you work on for this sample I've put 20 stitches on the needle
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and what I have done is, just to save a bit of time
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I've done 4 rows of garter stitch now the way we're working with this pattern is
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we're working in groups of 6 rows so we're doing 4 rows of garter stitch
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which is what gives me the structure on the t-shirt and then row five is where things get a little bit different so we're just going
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to knit our first stitch as we usually would and then instead of moving on to
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our second stitch we're going to do a yarn over now don't be scared of this I've
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been terrified of doing this for ages and it actually really easy so we take our yarn instead of inserting it into the stitch we literally wrap it around clockwise
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So that is one yarn over, you've done it already, and two yarn overs
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So you've got, you can see here you've got your first stitch and then you've got two yarn overs
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Then we go in and we knit our next stitch to secure those yarn overs
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And then we do one, two yarn overs. We go in and knit our next stitch
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And then one, two yarn overs. yarn overs and we just carry on
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doing a knit and then one, two yarn overs until we get to the end of our row. So I'll carry on with this
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and then I'll meet you again at the end of the row
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Okay so here I am, I've got my last two stitches So I'm going to knit that second to last stitch and yarn over twice as we have done with all
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of the other stitches and then for the last stitch you simply just knit it, you don't
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need to do the yarn over. You can see here there's an awful lot of loops on here
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We're not going to knit them all otherwise we'll end up with three times as many stitches
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So this is where the fun begins and we going to drop those extra yarn overs that we did So turn your work grab your needle and off we go So that last stitch on the other row we did a knit so we just going to knit
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that again and that will secure our row. Now we come to our two yarn overs. So you can see here
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that's where we wrapped it around and all we're going to do is simply slip those off the needle
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and then we go back in and we knit the next stitch that we had knitted and then we take our yarn
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overs and we slide those off so it can start to feel a bit messy here but don't worry you will
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catch up when you get to the end. So knit your knit stitch and then slide off your yarn
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overs. I don't think you need to be clever here and insert your needle to slide them off
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It is an easy way to do it but you don't have to do it if you start to get a bit confused
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as to which are your stitches and which are your yarn overs. It can be just as easy to
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slide them off with your finger. So knit the next stitch and then either use your needle or your finger to drop those yarn overs. Okay
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Drop those two. Drop those two Turn it and drop your yarn overs and you can start to see that you getting these loops that we saw in the original piece of knitting Here we go So these are the loops
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that you're creating now. So as with all of the others we just knit the knits and then
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and then slip these two and I'll see you at the end of the row
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Okay, so here we are towards the end of the row. I've got my last two stitches on the needle with the yarn overs in between
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So I'm just going to knit that penultimate stitch, slide off those two yarn overs
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and then as we did at the beginning we're going to knit that last stitch just to secure it
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and then you can see here you've got the row that you've just knitted and all of these stitches that you've just dropped
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and then we start the pattern again so we do our four rows of garter stitch
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row five is knit yarn over two times, knit yarn over two times until you get to the end and you knit your last stitch
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and then row 6 is where you knit and you drop those yarn overs
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and then you knit and you drop those yarn overs until you get to the end and then you knit your last stitch
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and then you start your block of 6 rows again with your 4 rows of grass stitch
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so hopefully you've enjoyed that and you can get creative with lots of patterns
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if you want to have a go at the t-shirt pattern that I'm working on here
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I'll link to that below So it's a nice and simple, really easy way to practice this stitch
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Speak to you soon. Bye
