Cheesy Rails Knit Stitch Pattern Tutorial

Hey everyone, it's Deja with knit-and-crochet-ever-after.com. Today we're doing the Cheesy Rails stitch pattern. The pattern's below, I'll talk more about the sample after we've done the stitches, but let's get started. So, the Cheesy Rails uses a multiple of 3 plus 2. So however wide you want this, you're gonna times it by 3 and then add 2 more. It's a pretty simple repeat once you get it memorized, it's only 4 rows. Not too bad. The first row that we're going to do is just some basic knitting through the back loop. We're going to do that twice, so we're gonna catch that back loop and do it one more time. Then next we're going to purl, and that's our stitch repeat. So it's going to be knit, just remember to move your yarn before you start your next stitch. So knit one through the back loop, knit two through the back loop, through the back loop, one. All the way until you get to the last two stitches. and that's not gonna change because you finished with a purl, so you'll just do two more. Knitting through the back loop, these last two stitches, I'm just going to do a simple, you're doing one stitch all the way across, you're just going to be knitting in the back loop, so a back loop, and so this is a row, remember this is a four row repeat, so once we finish with row three, it's going to be very familiar, because it's going to be a repeat of row one, so it is very easy to memorize this stitch pattern, so row three we're repeating what we did with row one, purl across to those last two stitches, and those will be knit two through the back loop, on those last two, I've never done a knit through the back loop on that, so definitely check those out if you need this to go slower so you can learn how to do that. But we're almost ready for row 4, the last of our stitch pattern, and it's not too bad either. Turn and head to row 4. So for row 4, I said it's not bad, but it does have a stitch that's kind of annoying to do. So you'll get really good at it after this. We're going to purl through the back loop. So normally purl in the front, but this time we're going to go in the back. But how do we get this yarn around here? We actually have to come from the left of the stitch, so we're almost twisting the stitch. Then we're going to finish off that purl, go diagonal to get that loop out, slide off. So again, if you need to turn your work to be able to catch that loop, lock in that stitch. You see as I come through, I'm coming through and around that back loop, sliding that off. It might be a new technique for you, it might take a couple rows to get comfortable, but once you get cooking with it, it's not too bad. So the other stitch is going to be the opposite of kind of what we did on row one and three, we're knitting one. So the total opposite, we'll purl two through the back loop, two of those. The same thing, we're going to keep doing that across, and those last two stitches will be the purl twos through the back loop after a while. Having pointy needles like these lace tip addies are very helpful to come out, they are definitely catching yarn. Purls through the back loop, especially if you ever do purl two together through the back loop, it's harder. So we're just repeating those four over and over again, and we end up getting this guy. Like, almost a chain? Looks like it's kind of a 3D effect. And both sides is pretty interesting. The back side's got kind of a cool look to it too, so you could definitely do it as a reversible fabric for like a scarf. They're not, you know, identical, but they're both very visually appealing, so it would work. This would be great with some self-striping yarn. Um, probably even alternating rows. Every four rows, maybe switch to a different color. That would look neat. Here's our shiny Deja with knit and crochet of after.com.