Farmer’s Rib

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple and I want to show you this interesting rib stitch. I've seen it called a bunch of things, but most commonly it's called farmer's rib. It has some nice stretch. It has some nice texture and one of the things I like about it is it is truly reversible. It looks the same on one side as it does on the other.

This is a two row repeat and you want to cast on a multiple of four plus one. Let's go ahead and do. I'm gonna call this the right side row. Basically, it's row one either could be the right side if you try hard enough. So let's go ahead and do this row.

We're going to pearl one and then knit 31, two, three pro one net trick one, two, three. As you get the pattern established. And you're trying to remember where your knit threes go. Basically, they're centered over the column of stock. A net stitch.

If you see a column like that, your knit three is going to be that stitch plus one on either side. Pearl one knit three, we're gonna do this all the way across coming up to the end. Pearl one net three one two three. And we'll have one lonely little stitch at the end. That's pearl one.

So there is my right side row on my wrong side row. I'm going to begin with a knit too knit 21 two pearl one knit three. We're gonna do our pearl one knit three again, if we're just offsetting it by having that knit two at the beginning of the end. So there's our pearl one knit 31 two, three, pearl one knit three one two, three. Once again, noting when you have that group of three stitches, the center one is going to look like that column of stuck in it.

Pearl one net three. Here's my last knit 31 to three. Then we have pearl one and knit two. So we have a knit two at the beginning and a knit two at the end of the wrong side row. When you're ready to bind off, you can bind off after either the right side or the wrong side row.

And you're going to want to bind off in pattern. I'm Mary Beth Temple. Thanks for hanging out with me today and I hope you enjoyed learning the farmer's rib.