The Weekly Swatch: Cascading Leaves Lace Knit Stitch

 

After a focus on textured knitting and exploring colour knit stitches, this swatch of the Cascading Leaves Knit Stitch is a return to traditional, dainty lace knitting. 

This lace knit stitch is worked on multiple of 10 plus 1 stitches over 16 rows. All wrong side rows are purled throughout, allowing for a modicum of relaxation working this stitch. 

Whilst the Cascading Leaves stitch uses the most common in- and decreases (yo / k2tog / ssk), the sk2po is a lesser known method of decreasing two stitches. In this pattern the sk2po double  decrease creates the tips of the leaves. 

With the sk2po decrease the first stitch is initially slipped, the next two stitches are knit together (k2tog) and the slipped stitch is eventually passed over.

Cascading Leaves Lace Knit Stitch Pattern

The Weekly Swatch: Leaf Edging

 

New Year, new weekly swatch. 

For this post, I have prepared a simple leaf edging (and tested a new skein of Araucania Botany Lace sock yarn). The edging requires a multiple of 8 stitches. As a result of in- and decreases, the stitch count will vary when knitting this edging.

Leaf Edge Knitting Pattern