How to Work Chevron Seed Stitch

Hi guys. Mary Beth temple here on behalf of The Knitting Circle. And in this video, we're gonna take a closer look at the Chevron Seed Stitch. Now this is not a difficult pattern to learn but the purl bumps on the right side of the work give you a zigzag or a chevron pattern. So let's take a closer look at the stitch.

We're going to do our Chevron Seeds Stitch on a multiple of eight stitches. I have 24 in my swatch and you can see it's a plain stockinette background and the purl bumps make this zigzag or chevron. And it looks sort of like the seed stitch which is why it's called the Chevron Seed Stitch. But you can see it goes down, up, down, up, down, et cetera. So let's take a look at this eight stitch multiple and a four row repeat.

So one row, the first row on the right side is purl one, knit three all the way across. So purl one, knit three. One, two, three. Purl one, knit three. One, two, three.

Purl one, knit three. One, two, three. And we're gonna do this all the way across and you can see our little purl bump on the right side row. That's going to form the bottom point of the next chevron. Row two is a wrong side row and it goes a little something like this.

Knit one, purl five. One, two, three, four, five. Knit one, purl one. So that was my eight stitches. See one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Let's try that again. Knit one, purl five. One, two, three, four, five. Knit one, purl one. So you're going to repeat those eight stitches all the way across.

Knit one, purl five. One, two, three, four, five. Knit one, purl one. Your piece of course could be much larger. It depends on what kind of a project you're working on.

Let's take a look at the right side of that. So there are the purl bumps that we placed in the first row. And now you see our chevrons building up. So there's one on either side of the original purl bump when you do the second row. It's a little different on the end there.

Let's see find another full repeat. There we go. There's our first one from row one. And there are my guys just spreading out a little bit on the second row. The third row is knit two.

Knit two, purl one. Knit three. One, two, three. Purl one, knit one. Now let's count.

Make sure that was eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So we're going to repeat those eight stitches all the way across. Knit two, purl one, knit three, one, two, three. Purl one, knit one. And I've got one more to do.

And again, row one. Here was our first purl bump. Row two, they're my two moving out. Row three, they're my two moving out even a little farther. So you see the chevron starting to build?

I'm gonna finish row three then we'll take a look at four. All right. Row four is a wrong side row. We're gonna purl two, one, two. Knit one, purl one.

Knit one, purl one, knit one, purl three, one, purl three, one, two, three. All right, we'll take a look at that again. Purl two, one, two. Knit one, purl one, knit one, purl three. One last time for me your piece might be bigger.

Purl two, knit one, purl one, knit one, purl three, one, two, three. And on the right side row there's our chevron building up. We had our bottom point. We had them separated by one stitch. We had them separated by three stitches.

We have them separated by five stitches. And then the next row is one again. We're going back to one, which is purl one, knit three all the way across. Purl one, knit three, one, two, three. Purl one, knit three, purl one, knit three.

So you can see my purl bump that's over here begins the next chevron. And my purl bump that's over here, closes up the chevron we just finished. So that's all there is to it. Multiple of eight stitches, four row repeat, that is the Chevron Seed Stitch. See, I told you that was an easy stitch to learn and it's great to use in projects where you need sort of an all over texture pattern.

And the zigzag gives you sort of a visual interest but still really easy to knit. So thank you so much for joining me here on The Knitting Circle. I'm Mary Beth Temple. Check us out. See what else we have to offer.

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