How to Knit the Flower Knot Stitch

Hi there, I'm Corrina Ferguson for The Knitting Circle. Today we're gonna learn how to work the flower knot stitch. So let's get started. So right now I'm gonna show you how to do the flower knot stitch. The flower knot stitch can be called different things by different people, but it's a simple maneuver where we purl some stitches together and then we yarn over and we purl them together again.

And what it does, you can see on the fabric of the sweater is it makes these little, they look like little flower buds, kind of spaced out over the fabric. And when you have a fabric like this that has some variation in the colors it's a semi-solid purple, you can see how that kind of breaks anything up and makes it really lovely. I have a demonstration here where we have it in a little bit of the bigger yarn and you can see in a little more detail what the flower knot looks like and why I call it a flower knot. And I want to show you though, the flower knots are offset. They're not straight in rows.

It's not flower knot, flower knot, flower knot, flower knot, it goes like this. And the reason for that is kind of the way that it moves the fabric makes everything look pretty but it also doesn't make the fabric too tight in places because you're spacing these out because these do kind of suck the fabric in. And you can kind of see how it sucks things in here and there, and it makes the fabric move. But like I said, it's a very simple maneuver. So let's look at how to do the flower knot.

So I have a little piece of fabric the same size as the one that I was working with. And then I'm at the point where I'm gonna do the flower knot in the Helene T the flower knots are spaced out. Let me show you that again actually, by five stitches. So you have a flower knot, one, two, three, four, five. Knot, one, two, three, four, five, knot.

And the reason for that is here above this in the center of those five stitches is where the next one goes and they're kind of offset here. So we are ready to do the flower knot here got it in our hands. So we're bringing our intro five because we are going to do a purl And what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a purl three together, yarn over, purl three together in the same three stitches. So we're gonna purl these together but we're not going to take them off the needle yet. We're gonna purl them together but we're gonna leave them on the needle.

We're gonna bring a yarn over, over the needle. We're gonna purl them together again. And then we're gonna jump off. Let's see that one more time. And like I said, it's not complicated and it really does make a lovely effect one, two, three, four and five, let's do it again.

So next three stitches are my ones that are gonna be be my little flower knot, purl three together. Leave them on the left-hand needle, yarn over, purl three together again. You'll see, you've got the three stitches here and then I'm just gonna knit to the end of this row. And then on the wrong side rows of the purl knot you just, I'm sorry, of the flower knot you just purl the stitches cause that's what's gonna cement that into that stockinette stitch fabric so that you get a fabric that looks like this. Thank you for learning to work the flower knot stitch with me, check out our website for more great videos.