Materials and measurements

  • Needles: US 7 - 4.5 mm.
  • Worsted Yarn: Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton, two balls in different colors.
  • Finished Measurements: 6” x 6”

How to work

Knit 1 with the loose strand
Aster stitch

Step 1: Pick up the loose strand

Hold yarn in back. Insert the LH needle from front to back, under the loose strand behind. Lift it onto the LH needle.

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Step 2: Knit the loose strand with next stitch together

Insert the RH needle knitwise into the loose strand and the next stitch on the LH needle, wrap yarn counterclockwise, pull a new loop through both, then drop them off the LH needle.

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Step 1

Insert the RH needle purlwise and slip the next 5 stitches to the RH needle, dropping extra wraps to create elongated stitches.

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Step 2

Insert the LH needle from left to right into 5 stitches on the RH needle.

Step 3

[(P1, yo) twice, P1] into all 5 stitches together.

pattern

35 stitches - 38 rows

Row 1 (Right side): Color A, Knit.

Row 2: Color A, Knit.

  • Row 3: Color B, K2, *Sl1 wyib, K5 wrapping yarn twice around needle for each st; repeat from * to last 3 sts, Sl1, K2.
  • Row 4: Color B, K2, Sl1 wyif, *Aster stitch, Sl1 wyif; repeat from * to last 2 sts, K2.
  • Row 5: Color A, K8, *K1 uls, K5; repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.
  • Row 6: Color A, Knit.
  • Row 7: Color B, K5, *Sl1 wyib, K5 wrapping yarn twice around needle for each st; repeat from * to last 6 sts, Sl1, K5.
  • Row 8: Color B, K5, Sl1 wyif, *Aster stitch, Sl1 wyif; repeat from * to last 5 sts, K5.
  • Row 9: Color A, K11, *K1 uls, K5; repeat from * to last 6 sts, K6.
  • Row 10: Color A, Knit.

Repeat Rows 3–10, ending on Row 6.
Then bind off, weave in all ends.

ABBREVIATIONS

K: knit.
P: purl.
Sl: slip stitch purlwise.
Wyif: With yarn in front.
Wyib: With yarn in back.
K1 uls: Knit stitch with the loose strand behind.