Easy Knitted Plaid: How to Knit a Plaid Pattern
This week, Sara Delaney shows us a clever and simple way to create beautiful plaid fabric with your knitting!
Knitting plaid fabrics can seem like a daunting task when you consider that they may involve not only two or more colors but also intarsia work. And how do you keep the tension even in an intarsia section that is only one stitch wide?
Why not skip the intarsia altogether with some cleverly placed purl ravines and the use of a crochet hook!
Work the horizontal stripes of your plaid normally and wherever you’d like to have the vertical stripes just work a purl stitch in that vertical column of stitches.
Once you’ve finished knitting the piece you can go back with your crochet hook, and slip stitch a line of stitches into the vertical purl ravine. The slip stitches will lie even with the surface of your knitting.
With this technique, it’s easy to create a multi-colored plaid by changing the colors of your vertical stripes. You can stick to two colors, or get creative with as many as the color wheel can hold.
Easy to make plaid sweaters, cowls and hats…it’s addictive!
Check out our video tutorial for more details.
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