Interrupted Rib Stitch

Hi everyone, I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. In this video let's take a look at the interrupted rib stitch pattern. This particular stitch pattern combines one by one ribbing with reverse stockinette to make a really interesting texture that I think is really great for scarves and baby blankets. It's a stitch pattern that looks really good on both the right side and the wrong side of the work. So let's get started on the interrupted rib stitch pattern. Here I have my interrupted rib stitch pattern. You can see it's a beautifully textured stitch pattern. We have some knit one pearl one rib here. We're going to do that for two rows. And then it's interrupted by two rows of reverse stockinette stitch. It's really beautiful. It creates a beautiful texture. You can see it's not as elastic as a traditional rib stitch. It doesn't really snap back into place, but it does create beautiful texture in your knitting project. If we flip over to the wrong side here, you can see that this side is just as beautiful. It just creates a different texture than the right side but this would be beautiful for a scarf or a baby blanket because really both sides are very pretty. So let's go ahead and work this stitch pattern. We're going to work the interrupted rib stitch over a multiple of two stitches plus one when we're working back and forth in rows like we are here and we're just going to do that. Basically an odd number of stitches so that our ribs are centered on the fabric. So row one, we're going to pearl one knit one all the way across to the final stitch. So just pearl one, knit one all the way across. And because we have an odd number of stitches we are pearling one, knitting one, pearling one, knitting one, but because we have that odd number, we're going to end with the pearl one. And that's row one. Row two, we're just going to be knitting the knits and pearling the pearls. So row two is knit one, pearl one to the last stitch and then end with the knit one. So you see you have a pearl here and a pearl, this looks like a knit. We're going to knit. So we're just doing the knit one pearl one all the way to the end. And then we're going to end again 'cause we have an odd number of stitches with the knit one. So that's the first two rows. And so you can see you're starting to get a little bit of ribbing there. Well, now we're going to interrupt that ribbing. The next row, row three, which is the right side. We're going to pearl all stitches because we are making reverse stockinette, so we're going to be pearling on the right side all the way across. Here we go. So you can see we've created some pearl bumps here. Now coming to the wrong side, we're just knitting all the stitches so they look like knits and so we are going to knit them on the wrong side. And then after that we'll just be repeating those four rows over and over and over again. So we're going to go back to the beginning, which was just pearl one knit one all the way across and with the pearl one. So the stitch pattern, like I said, it is not completely reversible in that the front and the back do not look exactly the same, but I do find because I'm doing that reverse stockinette stitch on the right side of my work, I do like to take a stitch marker and just mark the right side of my work, just so that I don't get confused about what row that I'm on. So again, we're just going to repeat those four rows over and over and over again to make the interrupted rib stitch. Isn't that such a pretty stitch pattern? I'm definitely going to be using that on some projects soon. Thank you so much for joining me here at The Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I'll see you again real soon.