Dimple Stitch Video Tutorial

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It’s kind of cool when a knitting stitch lives so precisely up to its name! 🤓 The stitch we’re exploring today is the Dimple Stitch, which features a gorgeous and interesting right and wrong side, despite not technically being reversible. The sweater I think this particular stitch would look beautiful for is a thick, elbow-length number with distinct rockabilly energy. The thick fabric? C’mon!

Dimple Stitch

In Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, Dimple Stitch is described: “Slipped strands, caught up 4 rows later, are used to pull this bold, puffy fabric together. The wrong side, which might serve just as well as as right side, shows a deep honeycomb formation in purl stitches.”

As you can see, Walker was correct in describing this stitch as “pulled together.” Not entirely unlike creating the repeating butterfly motif of the Little Bow Stitch (find a tutorial here), strands of yarn are carried across a few slipped stitches before being gathered up from below, resulting in a knit fabric with serious texture.

Dimple Stitch Video tutorial

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Written Pattern

Knitting Skill Level: Easy to Intermediate

CO a mult of 6 sts plus 5.
row 1. (RS) k all sts.
rows 2 & 4. (WS) k1, *sl3 wyif, p3; rep from *, end sl3 wyif, k1.
row 3. k1, *sl3 wyib, k3; rep from *, end sl3 wyib, k1.
rows 5 & 7. k all sts.
row 6. p all sts.
row 8. k1, p1, *insert needle from below under the 3 loose strands of rows 2-4, k next st under strands, p5; rep from *, end last rep p1, k1.
row 9. k all sts.
rows 10 & 12. k1, * p3, sl3 wyif; rep from *; end p3, k1.
row 11. k4, *sl3 wyib, k3; rep from *; end k1.
rows 13 & 15. k all sts.
row 16. k1, p4, *k next st under 3 loose strands of rows 10-12, p5; rep from *, end last rep p4, k1.
Rep rows 1-16.

Please note that stitches & skill levels are presented using the Craft Yarn Council’s standards and abbreviations: http://bit.ly/cyc-standards.

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