Beaded Rib Stitch

[Soft Acoustic Music] Hi everyone, I'm Jen Lucas for The Kitting Circle. In this video, let's look at beaded rib stitch. This stitch pattern is a variation of the knit-three-pearl-two rib. It still has a lot of elasticity and snaps back like traditional ribbing, but what you have is a column of seed stitch bracketed by two columns of stockinette stitch in the ribbing pattern. It's really interesting, it creates beautiful texture, and I'd love to show you how to make it.

Let's get started. Here I have the beaded rib stitch. So this is sort of a variation of the knit-three-pearl-two rib. So if I'm looking at this from the right side, you can see here, right there, that would be where your traditional knit-three would be. And then here would be your pearl-two.

So looking at this, where again, it would be knit-three in a traditional knit-three-pearl-two rib. You can see that I have a column of knit stitches here and a column of knit stitches here, but then in between, we're making seed stitch. And so we're still getting some nice elasticity to our rib, but it's much more decorative because we have this column of seed stitches that is being bracketed by the stockinette. So you could use this stitch pattern just the same as you would use a knit-three-pearl-two rib, and instead you'd have something a little more decorative. I really like this.

And even though it's not completely reversible, in that the wrong side is not identical to the right side, I actually think that the wrong side of this stitch pattern is also very beautiful. So you can see you're getting just your two columns of knit stitches here, and then you have some seed stitch that's now bracketed by pearl stitches on either side. So it does give it a different look, but I do think that the wrong side is just as pretty as the right side with this stitch pattern. So now let's go ahead and knit it. We're gonna want to work this stitch pattern when we're working flat in rows, like we're doing here, over a multiple of five stitches, plus two.

So, if you were using this for a scarf or something like that, which I think that this would be a beautiful stitch pattern, an easy stitch pattern for a scarf. You would want to start with a multiple of five stitches, and then add two. So you might add 40 stitches because eight times five is 40, and then add two more. So it would be 42 stitches. So it's very easy to figure out how many stitches you need on your needle, because it just needs to be a multiple of five, plus two.

So now, to work the beaded rib stitch, we're gonna start with a pearl-two. Then we're going to... Knit-one, pearl-one, knit-one, and then pearl two. So our pattern, or stitch repeat of five stitches is knit one, pearl one, knit one, pearl two. Knit one, pearl one, knit one, pearl two.

So I've started and ended the stitch pattern with the pearl-two. And so, having that multiple of five, plus two stitches allows you to have your stitch pattern be nice and centered on your fabric. So that's the right side. And then the wrong side's a little bit easier. We're gonna start with the knit-two, and then our stitch repeat is just pearl three, knit two.

So then we're just gonna keep repeating that across the row. Pearl three, knit two. Pearl three, knit two. So it's a very easy stitch pattern. I really love this one.

I have knit a sweater where this was used on the cuff of the sweater, instead of a traditional rib, and it looks really really pretty. I really love this stitch pattern and I hope that you do too. And there you go. You can see that it's super easy. It's just two rows that you're repeating.

And even though it doesn't look the same on both the right side and the wrong side, both sides of the stitch pattern are equally as beautiful. I hope that you enjoyed this video here a The Kitting Circle and I'll see you back here again real soon.