Knitting Stitch Library

Every knit stitch, one page each.

alternating blocks of knit and purl stitches that read like woven basket squares, flat and substantial

a rib worked on one row and purled back on the next, breaking the columns into a soft textured near-rib that lies flatter

stitches crossed over one another with a cable needle to make raised rope-like twists over a purl ground

regularly spaced increases and decreases push the knitting into a zig-zag chevron, striking worked in stripes

small deliberate holes made with a yarn-over and a decrease, the simplest lace, arranged in rows or motifs

an old shale lace of paired yarn-overs and decreases that scallops the edge and forms soft rippling fans, a classic first lace

made by knitting into the stitch one row below, producing a plush deep elastic rib heavier and squishier than ordinary ribbing

stitches worked together through the back loop lean into a tight dense herringbone weave with a slanting woven texture

slipped stitches with the yarn carried in front build a dense woven-looking fabric that mimics linen cloth and shows color well

a double seed stitch worked over a four-row repeat, giving a denser more elongated bumpy texture than seed stitch

a grid of knit and purl stitches that pops into raised squares like a waffle, thick and textured and absorbent