Braid patterns: knitting options and job description

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

If you are just learning to knit, then after the ability to knit front and back loops, you can start mastering patterns from braids. It is enough to understand the principle of operation and act carefully, carefully calculating the loops, in order to master this technique easily and quickly.

To do the job you will need a special pin, which is often sold complete with knitting needles. If the pattern is complex and consists of several braids, then you will need several pins. If the weaves are small in size, including from 3 to 5 loops, then ordinary large safety pins can be used. The main thing is that the loops do not slip out of the pigtail loop twister.

In the article we will give a complete description of the "Scythe" pattern and tips on how to do it correctly. Then we will share how the acquired knowledge can be applied in practice, varying different combinations of wide and narrow braids, as well as making asymmetrical elements, adding different knits to the pattern. The photographs provided will help you better understand the principle of operation andshow how the finished product should look.

Simple Knit Braid

Let's start learning how to knit with braids with a simple, traditional braid. For example, it will consist of 10 loops. Add two more edging to the sample. In total, we collect 12 loops and we knit 6 or 8 rows of facial viscous. Then we divide the number of loops in half and remove the first half of the braid pattern without knitting on a pin. Depending on whether the parts will cross from left to right or vice versa, the pin is lowered in front of the canvas or on its back side. Then the second half is knitted immediately.

Then the loops are removed from the pin back onto the knitting needle and the row is knitted to the end. On the wrong side, knitting is carried out as usual, that is, with purl loops.

The next crossing of the loops occurs through the same number of rows as in the first case, that is, after 6 or 8.

How to make braid patterns

Once you have learned how to handle the pin and throw the required number of loops to the other side, you can come up with more complex options by combining different lengths of rows between crossing loops. The photo below shows that in the braid pattern, knitting 14 rows of facial loops is alternated before loops are removed on an additional knitting needle or pin with knitting only 4 rows.

You can shift their location to the middle. For example, one braid starts crossing after 12 rows, and the adjacent braid starts after 6.

Interestinga pattern of braids looks when two thin details are intertwined into one wide one. Then the pattern continues again from separate elements.

variant knitting

The pigtail looks original, in which one half is connected only with front loops, and the other consists of alternating front and back loops. The interlacing of parts occurs in the usual way.

As you can see, the knitting pattern "Braids" can be varied in different ways. It all depends on the imagination of the master. Knitting patterns are easy to draw using graph paper or a regular squared notebook sheet. Fantasize and come up with your own variations of patterns from different braids. Good luck!