Jade Scarf Knitting Pattern + Tutorial | Easy Free Knit Lace Project

Okay, to make the jade scarf, you're going to need about 425 yards of a fingering weight yarn. This is Knitting Fever. Painted Desert in the colorway is Peridot. I'll link that in case you like this colorway. But you can substitute anything. Self-striping looks great but a solid will be beautiful too because of the lace detail. And then I'm also going to show you what the multiple for changing this width of the scarf which means you can also substitute with any weight yarn. So you can do a worsted if you have that on hand. and you know make it a little skinnier because it'll be bigger so very customizable very easy to use what you have in your stash without having to go buy more yarn. if you're doing the fingering weight scarf you're going to need 3.5 millimeter needles If you're substituting, go with kind of whatever the ball band says and see how your lace is looking. If it's looking too droopy and not very defined, go down in size for your needles. If it's, you know, really tight and no give, go up a little bit. So if you substitute, switch it to whatever, but with the fingering weight, do a 3.5. You can do straights, circulars, whatever you prefer. Some nice low-cost bamboo ones are perfect for this project. I'll link these in the description as well as the stainless steel that you will see in a minute. And then to finish, you know, you'll need some scissors, a needle to weave in your ends, And then I always like to block my lace projects, so I will link to my favorite blocking materials in the description as well, the blocking mats and pins that I like to use. And because this is a straight edge project, I like using lace wires to block my projects, so I'll link those below. I have a tutorial on that so you can see what I'm talking about. So lastly, you just need need the pattern, so go to my description and pull that up and we can get started. So I already have one full repeat completed on the scarf to start with. You'll see that it will create this scalloped edging and that's made from the increases and decreases. This is an eight row repeat but really it's only four because every even row so two four six and eight you're just I'm just going to be purling. The entire row. So it's really only four rows that you're working and it's a short repeat, a semi-short repeat, so you can kind of get in the groove on each row that you're doing. You can make this wider or skinnier by multiplying the stitch count by 10 and then just adding one. So you'll see that this chain was 51. You can make it skinnier going 41, wider or 61, just so on and so on. So let's start with row one. So the first stitch is outside of our repeat so it's just a knit one and then we begin our repeat. So we're going to yarn over we're going to knit three then we're going to do a decrease it's a double decrease so we're going to slip one We're going to take the next two stitches and I always kind of pull down if you're having trouble getting through them both at the same time just kind of pull down on your stuff and then slip through and do a knit two together so that's decreasing one stitch. You'll remember we have this slip stitch over here now we're going to slip that over this other stitch to reduce by another. Full stitch. So we just took three stitches and turned it into one. We did a yarn over here so we're going to do another yarn over to make our stitches even. So we're going to do another knit three. So it's kind of mirroring what we did on the other side of that double decrease. Then we're going to yarn over and then we're going to knit one. So that is our full repeat. So again we'll do We'll do this a little quicker, yarn over. Knit three. We're going to slip. We're going to knit the next two together. Even I have trouble seeing those knit two together. It's not just you. Then we're going to slip that back over. I always try to kind of like stick my finger here just so I don't accidentally slide the stitch that I'm trying to pass over just as a precaution. Another precaution that you can take if you're new to knitting. I love Stainless steel hooks, or needles, sorry, but when I first got them, I was losing stitches left and right because they're super slick, so stitches just slide right off no problem, so you really have to be conscious of holding onto your stitches, how you're working them, and everything else. If you're finding that you're having trouble losing stitches, and you're brand new, and you're using stainless steel, put them aside, get some wood needles. And use those until you're comfortable on how to kind of hold on to your stitches. It will make such a difference. The wood kind of grips the yarn, so you're not having such a slippery kind of situation where stitches are falling off. All right, I was at my decrease, sorry. Back to the stitches. We're gonna knit another three, and a yarn over, and knit one. So again, we're just gonna do that all the way across, knitting three after that first yarn over. Slip one, pull down so you can get through your knit two together. And people are always like, move your stitches to the end of your needle. You don't need to. Like, it's not super important. You don't need to be all the way down here. That's how you lose stitches. You can work the stitch all the way down here. No matter what anyone says, it works. I do it all the time. We're going to knit three again. Yarn over and knit one. So I'm going to finish off this row. I'm going to do my row two of purling coming back. I'll do a few purls at the very end so you can see me purl. And then we'll start on row three. Okay, I have just a few purls left. And in case you're wondering, I did a long tail cast on for this cast on. I feel like hopefully you know cast on by now, but I have lots of video tutorials if you need help with those. But the long tail, it's nice Nice and stretchy enough. For the scalloped edge it worked perfectly fine. It doesn't really give you know a finished edge but I may sew this up at the end. I don't know because you can make this a infinity scarf if you want by sewing up your edges at the end and even though it's scalloped the other end when you bind off, I'm making everything go blurry, when you bind off it's It's going to be the opposite of what's here, so it actually fits perfectly. Little tip if you want to turn it into an infinity scarf. So now we are on row three. Let me get some slack here. Slack is your friend. You'll notice in the chart that our yarn overs are forming a little triangle. So we are bringing those closer together on this row. So it's going to be a little bit different. We're going to yarn, or sorry, knit one. Then we are going to knit one again. We're going to yarn over. We're going to knit two. Now we're going to do our decrease. So we slip one, knit two together, slip that back, or PSSO, pass slip stitch over, is what that abbreviation stands for. Then we're going to knit two again. Remember we're going to mirror what we did on the other side. Yarn over, then the end is a little different, so it's knit two again. So again one more time, we're going to knit one, we're going to yarn over, knit two, slip a stitch, Knit two together, and then PSSO, pass slip stitch over, knit two, more, yarn over, and knit two again. So we're going to follow that all the way to the end, the repeat ends all the way to the very last stitch. There's never an extra stitch to do. I'm shaking my camera here. So we're going to finish that row, and then I'm going to do row four of my purlings, so we can come back for row five and almost be done. So I'll see you in a bit. Okay I just finished my row for four purling and now we're on to row five so we're halfway there. Again we're moving those yarn overs closer together so we're always doing a knit on that very first stitch. Then our pattern repeat is a knit two, we're gonna yarn over, knit one, and then start our slipping. Remember at the very end of the video I'm going to show you how to I'm going to unknit this stitch because this one It may be a little bit tricky if you don't see it done, that way you can reference it just in case you need it. So then we're going to have a mirror, so knit one, then we're going to yarn over, then the difference at the end, so we're going to knit three. So notice it kind of increases by one stitch in these last parts of our repeat. Again, we're going to knit two. Yarn over, knit one, Knit two together, lift that or pass PSSO, and then we're going to mirror by knitting one and yarn over, and then a knit three. So you'll kind of get the feeling of how that works as you go, and you'll see we have that triangle forming, which is kind of interesting because we're going, well, I'm sorry, we're over here. So we have that one coming this way, so it's also creating a V. So you get. From the repeat you get a V but you also get the triangle at the top. So I'm going to repeat the rest of that at the end of row five and do our row six purl so we can come back for seven, our last actual row, and I'll show you how to unknit that. Knit two together, PSSO stitch. So row seven, we are finally getting to the peak of our yarn over so we're going to always start with that knit one. Now we're going to knit three. Then we're going to yarn over and do our slipping and passing over and we're going to yarn over and knit four. So it's pretty like quick one on the very last one because everything kind of happens really fast and then you just kind of knit for a bit. So again, we're going to knit three, two, three. We're going to yarn over and go straight into a slip, so sometimes this can feel weird because the yarn isn't getting secured yet, it won't until you do this knit two, so it'll be like it's kind of just hanging out there, it feels like it might come over this stitch, it'll stay there, don't worry, and do your knit two together, and then slip over, oops, am I getting the right stitching, there we go. Sometimes you'll notice also that this thing like wants to stay way up here in your way. Just pull on your work and it'll pull it into place and get it out of the way for you. Then we're going to yarn over again and knit four. So I told you I would show you how to unknit that decreasing stitch. So we'll go to the next one and then we'll unknit. So we're going to knit three. One, two, three. We're going to yarn over. And then knit two together. So the reason you might need this is because of these stitches having lots of yarn over. Sometimes when you're purling you may lose a yarn over, you may grab the wrong thing, you might, you know, you just lose a stitch and you might need to work backwards to the row before. And that's what I always do. I don't, I'm not great, especially if it's like It's like lace like this at pulling up old stitches from below. Like, I'm always, like, right here, it looks like this could be a stitch right here, it's got a bunch of ladders, so I don't like doing those. I end up just unknitting until I get back to that mistake and fixing it. So if you drop a stitch totally, just try to grab it wherever you can and hold onto it, and then just, you can knit backwards, or if you're good at picking up, you know, you can do that. But when you're knitting backwards, you have... Stitches like this where you're like, oh my goodness, what am I doing? Normally when you knit backwards, you're going to turn around and kind of work backwards with your stitches. I say keep this facing forward. When you do these decrease unknits. So now I'm going to show you how to unknit that stitch. So you just kind of take it in the steps that it came, but backwards. So we did the pass stitch, pass slip stitch over first. So find that. That is that top loop that we brought over. Remember how it came over? So the first thing we want to do is put that back. So we'll just grab it if I can grab just that one and stick it back onto that needle. Whether it's over the top or not you can kind of push it so it's out of the way. Then we did a knit two together before that. So the knit two together is just like if you're doing a regular knit. Kind of pull it open so you can see that hole where the stitch is being made or both stitches and just put your needle straight through the front. Then you're going to slide that loop off of your other And undo. Then we have that yarn over that we don't want to lose. You'll notice that the legs are facing the right way and the stitches are already set up correctly. Now if you need to keep knitting backwards, you're going to slip, because remember you slipped it, you're going to slip it back over to your other needle. I'm going to get rid of that yarn over real quick. So we slipped it as if to purl So to slip it back, we're just going to put it kind of the same way it came. So we went straight in, pulled over. So we're going to go straight in and pull over. If it was as if to knit, we would want to kind of do it the same way backwards, as if to knit. Because you want that leg, so we call these the legs, you'll see that this leg is on the right, the one in the front, and the leg in the back is on the left. So when you look at it, this one's on the right. So that's the correct situation so that you can keep on going. So that is how you unknit that stitch. Let's finish this scarf and go do some final thoughts. So that is the jade scarf repeat. It's not that difficult you know once you get the the hang of the slip Knit two together, PSSO stitch. It really picks up and goes pretty quickly. You'll get a good training on your purl stitch if you don't purl much, so that's another benefit of this project. But I love the lace that this gives. It's such a pretty, almost like an Art Deco design, you know, 1920s Art Deco, the way that it lays. So very pretty. I like this scarf a lot. Um, I would love to see what you guys make. I would love to see the different colors that you choose and all that good stuff. So tag me on your socials. My handles are below so you can tag me. I would love that. As I said before, I'm going to release all of my patterns for free eventually. Um, there's quite a few. So if you have a request on one that you want to see next. Leave it in the comments so I can note that, that I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching.