Berry Stitch

The berry stitch is a stitch pattern that's worked almost entirely with pearl stitches. But don't let that discourage you even if you don't like to pearl that much. It's a beautiful stitch pattern that has so much texture and I think it almost looks like crochet. So let's take a look at the little swatch that I have here on the needles. So as you can see, it makes these little textures berries that sort of really pop off the fabric and it just makes it really interesting.

And while it doesn't look entirely like crochet, I do feel like these little berries that we're making do kind of have a crochet look to them. Um And you may be looking at the stitch pattern and think, well, that's not the berry stitch, that's the trinity stitch. Well, this is one of those stitch patterns that goes by a lot of different names. Um Sometimes you see it as the berry stitch, like I'm calling it here. You can see it called the Raspberry Stitch.

Trinity stitch, bramble stitch. There's probably other names for it too that I'm missing. Um But it is this stitch pattern that is worked almost entirely in pearls. Um But it is really, really beautiful and really, honestly, very fun to make. So let's take a look at how to make it.

So for row one, which is a right side row, we're gonna be pearling all the stitches. And now I just started with a little two stitch border here. So I'm just gonna place a stitch marker um because I'm gonna be working my little border where I'm knitting every row. Um And then in between the stitch markers, I'm gonna work my stitch pattern and this stitch pattern is worked over a multiple of four stitches. So for the right side, row, row one, we're gonna simply pearl all the stitches and like I said, I'm adding just a little two stitch border here.

So I'm gonna add another stitch marker just finished my little border here. And so again, it's worked over a multiple of four stitches. So let's just check and make sure we have that now. So 257, 10 and 12 and 12 is a multiple of four because four times three is So that takes care of row one. So now on row two, I'm just going to work my border and then for the Berry stitch itself, I'm going to pearl three together and so to pearl three together, I'm going to insert my right needle into the next three stitches.

Pearl wise because I'm gonna pearl and then I'm gonna pearl them all together. So I'm gonna bring the yarn around and bring it through to pearl three together. Now, the next stitch here, I'm going to knit one pearl, one knit one all into the same stitch. So what's happening here is I'm doing that pearl three together, which is going to take three stitches and turn it into one stitch. And now I'm gonna do knit one pearl, one knit one into the next stitch which makes it one stitch turn into three stitches.

So your stitch count is staying the same across the row. It's your immediately decreasing, then increasing, then decreasing, then increasing. So to do the knit one pearl, one, knit one into the next stitch, we're gonna put our, um we're gonna put our needle into the stitch as if to knit. We're gonna knit that stitch and then leave that stitch on the left hand needle. We're not going to take it off.

We'll bring the yarn between the needles to the front, work a pearl into that same stitch. We're still going to leave that stitch on the left hand needle. Bring the yarn in between the needle again and knit the stitch. And so you kind of get this little opening, it sort of elongates the stitch because we've worked three stitches into it. Bring the yarn back to the front and pearl three together.

We're gonna just keep repeating that down the row N one pearl, one knit one into the next stitch pearl three together and then the last stitch of our pattern, we're going to knit one pearl one N one and then I'll just finish my border now on row three, which is again a right side row, we're going to just be simply pearling all the stitches. So I'm slipping my marker. I'm ready to start my stitch pattern. So here I am just pearling across, just take a little extra care as you're working across the row because sometimes where you have done that increase of that knit one pearl, one knit one all into one stitch, sometimes these can get a little um crammed up together or sometimes even one stitch might start coming over another stitch. So just make sure nothing's twisted or anything here that you've got 123, just all nice in a row and then just continue to pearl and that takes care of row three.

So every right side row, you're simply pearling all the stitches. And now we've come to the wrong side row and we're going to be doing the same thing that we were doing on row two, but we are going to flip it. So on row two, we had started with a pearl three together. Now on row four, we're gonna start with the increase. So we're gonna start with knit one pearl, one knit one into the next stitch and then pearl three together.

And this becomes kind of nice because you're able to start to read your knitting. So if we take a really close look here, here was where we had previously done a pearl three together. And that was um on row two. And you can see here it's kind of we got this little cluster on the back of all these stitches where we had done that pearl three together. So what we're doing is we are offsetting them between rows two and four.

So they almost look a little interlocking on the right side. So on four, right above where you had that pearl three together, on row two, it's this stitch that comes up here. That's the one that is the knit one, pearl one net one. And then similarly, if we take a look at our knitting closely, again, you can see here we kind of have this big hole and you can see these three stitches forming out of it, then we're pearling three together. So the pattern is written out for you to follow.

Um And again, you're just starting row four with a knit one, pearl one knit one all into the same stitch and then pearl three together and you're just repeating that across the row. But if you really stop and take a look at your knitting, um it gets to the point where you almost don't need the pattern at all because I can see, OK, that was a pearl three together because I can see all these stitches club up down here. So I know that this has to be the knit one, pearl one nt one. And then here I can see where these three stitches are just coming out of sort of this little hole or this elongated stitch here. And then I know that's my pearl three together.

I feel like it's always useful to point those things out. Um Just because any time you can learn to read your knitting pattern, um I feel like it's a great opportunity for you just to knit a little bit faster, um which might not really be your goal. Um But it also makes your knitting just a little bit more relaxing because you, you don't have to constantly stop, look at your pattern and you know, check where you're at. And then again, if we come to this right side, you can see how these little berries clusters, brambles, raspberries, whatever you want to call it, you can see how they're sort of offset and they're almost interlocking. Um And this is a really great pattern for um being items.

That's a lot of times where you often see it, but there's no limits to where you can use this stitch pattern. And even if you don't like to pearl that much, I think you really will enjoy making this um stitch pattern because it really doesn't take a lot of work to get this really, really cool and unusual effect in your knitting