Dandelion Stitch

Hi there. I'm Corrina Ferguson for The Knitting Circle. In this video, we're going to learn how to work the Dandelion stitch. A beautiful floral living stitch. So let's get started.

So for this video we are going to learn how to work the Dandelion stitch. And the Dandelion is just another name, some people will call it a flower stitch or a floral stitch where we use knit one bellows or knit bellows in order to make these elongated strands you see here. And all of those elongated strands that you see come out of one place. So you can see that it enlarges the hole there and kind of gives it that center of a flower appearance with like little pedals. So let's learn how to do these knit bellows stitches for the Dandelion stitch.

So the first part of the Dandelion stitch is getting these elongated strands by doing the knit bellow maneuver. I'm going to try to stretch my knitting out so you can kind of see there's these little strands that run between the bar... between the stitches. They're kind of called the bars. There'll be a bar increase sometimes that you'll use and we're going to go down three bars and we're going to do it two stitches over because the Dandelion stitch or the flower stitch is worked over four stitches.

So we're going to go three bars down in between these four stitches. Let's go over two. Here is one bar. Here is two bars, and then we have the third bar here. So when we go into the hole under the third bar we're just going to wrap our yarn just like we're knitting.

And we're going to pull a stitch up onto the right hand needle. Now you want to make sure to stretch that out so it's not going to be too tight. You don't want it to be a little tiny like that. You want to stretch that out. Then you're going to knit two stitches.

Now the second time you do the knit bellow, it's way easier because you can already see where you're going to go into. You're going to go into the same space. You're going to pull up a loop, stretch it out a little bit. And then again, you're going to knit two. Now, this last one, you have a choice.

You can turn your needle a lot and go into that hole. I prefer to take my left-hand needle tip and the hole is big at this point. Go into the hole, wrap my yarn around it. Oops, got to actually grab it there and pull it through like that and then put it over on the right hand needle. So that is the beginning of your Dandelion stitch.

So we have the beginning of our Dandelion stitches where we picked up all those extra stitches those extra loops from the rows below. Now, when we're on the wrong side of the work we have to get rid of all those extra stitches. So all we do when we do that is we're going to do a pearl two together maneuver. And if you've never done a pearl two together, super easy. You insert your right hand needle tip as if to pearl into two stitches.

Oops, make sure I show you there's two. There's the elongated one and the regular one. And we pearl those together. And then we're going to pearl one. So we get to the next elongated stitch.

We get the elongated and the next stitch in line. Pearl them together. Pearl one. And then we have one last elongated stitch and we pearl that together with the next stitch in line. Pearl two together.

And then we pearl across the rest of the work and that's what makes our little dandelion here. So let's turn it over and you've got your elongated stitches and you've decreased away the extras to make the pretty flower. Thank you so much for joining me to learn how to work the Dandelion stitch. Check out our website for more great videos.