Vine Lace Stitch Pattern

Hi there, I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. In this video, let's learn how to knit the vine lace stitch pattern. It's an easy, four-row repeating lace stitch pattern and I think that you'll really enjoy it. So let's get started. Here I have my vine lace stitch pattern swatch.

You may also sometimes see this pattern called fern lace. There are other stitch patterns that you will see called fern lace but occasionally this particular stitch pattern I have seen it called fern lace as well. We're gonna go ahead and call it vine lace just because that's typically what it's called. It's a beautiful four-row repeating stitch pattern. We're gonna start down here, this was my bottom cast on edge.

And what I really love about this stitch pattern is that it naturally creates these scallops here along that bottom edge. So we cast on here and we're working this way. Because our yarn overs, and you'll see this when we're working the stitch pattern, our yarn overs are two stitches away from where we're doing our decreases and we'll be doing slip slip knits, or knit two togethers. But because the increases are a little bit away from the decreases, it allows that fabric to bias and that creates these scallops. Now I did block this swatch and I did accentuate these points and pin them out but it just naturally creates this scallop.

So when you cast on, it's just a straight regular cast on edge, but again the stitch pattern creates these beautiful scallops. I really love using this for anything that has worked from the bottom up, again, because we're starting down here, so from working a bottom up shawl, that's a crescent shawl or short row shawl, I love using the stitch pattern because it naturally creates these scallops along the bottom edge. If I'm making something like a sweater and it doesn't matter if it's for a baby all the way up to an adult, for a bottom up sweater, I think that this is a great stitch pattern to use. Again, it would create so much interest along the bottom of your sweater, rather than just having a straight edge. It's a really great and really versatile stitch pattern.

So just quickly, let's take a look at the wrong side. You can see this is worked over a background of stockinette. So the back to me, is very pretty, but it just looks like to me reverse stockinette with some holes in it. I really think that the beauty of the stitch pattern is on the right side. So that is what we're gonna focus on.

So let's go ahead and get started on how to work the stitch pattern. So we're gonna wanna work this stitch pattern over a multiple of nine stitches plus four. So just coming back to our swatch here quickly, the plus four is so that our stitch pattern can be centered on the fabric. So you can see here I have two columns of stockinette stitch and two over here. Now for this particular swatch, I did add two more stitches on each edge to just create a garter stitch border.

Since it is a background of stockinette, it will naturally curl but the stitch pattern itself ends right here with the stockinette but you could see it, makes it so it's nice and centered on the fabric. So for the swatch that I'm going to be working here I'm working it just over 22 stitches. So that means that I have nine times two is eighteen plus four, is twenty two. So that's how I decided how many stitches to cast on for my swatch. And again, this is because we are working in rows that we need that plus four to center our stitch pattern.

So now let's go ahead and get started on how to work the vine lace stitch pattern. This is gonna be worked over four rows and it's actually very easy to work. For row one, we're gonna start with a knit three. Now we're gonna go into our pattern repeat, nine stitch repeat. Yarn over, knit two, slip, slip, knit, knit two together, knit two, yarn over, knit one.

Now we're gonna repeat that again. Yarn over, knit two slip, slip knit, knit two together, knit two, yarn over, knit one. We repeat that till the last stitch, which we do have one stitch left and we just knit one. So that plus four for the stitch pattern, we worked the knit three at the beginning, and then we ended with a knit one. So that takes care of that plus four in the stitch pattern.

The wrong sides of the stitch pattern are very easy because all we're gonna do is purl all the way across our row. So I really like working lace patterns that are like this where the wrong sides are just purled or in some cases just knit or purled. It's a nice little break after you're working all those different stitches on the right side to create the lace. So I'm gonna just finish purling across here and then we will work the next right side row. There we go.

Now we're flipping back around to the right side. Now we're gonna work row three. We're gonna start row three with the knit two. And then we're gonna start our pattern repeat. Yarn over, knit two, slip, slip knit, knit two together, knit two, yarn over, knit one.

Now we start our ninth stitch repeat again, yarn over, knit two, slip, slip, knit, knit two together, knit two, yarn over, knit one. We're gonna end this row with knit two. So again, our plus four is taken care of because we started with the knit two and we ended with a knit two. Row four is the wrong side row. So we're purling all the stitches because for this whole stitch pattern we're always just purling on the wrong side.

So go ahead and work all the way across. And then we'll take a look at our swatch here. Just like any standard lace stitch pattern as I'm coming to my yarn overs here, oh, I got one coming up, you wanna make sure that you're just purling into them the standard way you would do a purl stitch. You don't wanna try to close that yarn overhaul, you wanna make sure you're leaving it nice and open. So here I have a yarn over.

So we're just going in the standard way that you would normally go into a purl stitch so that we keep our yarn over nice and open to make that lace. So there we have our vine lace stitch pattern. So you might've noticed as we were working those two right-side rows that the nine stitches of the pattern repeat they're actually the same for rows one and for row three. What we're doing though is, we're changing where those plus four stitches are worked in order to create the stitch pattern. And what I mean by that is, on row one, we started with the knit three and ended with the knit one and then worked the nine stitches for the pattern repeat in between that.

On row three, we started with a knit two and ended with a knit two but still worked the same nine stitches in between and we repeated that. So what it does, is it offsets the yarn overs and it offsets our decreases and that creates this beautiful stitch pattern here. So really, you just need to remember if you need to start with the knit three or start with the knit two when you come to the right side. So this actually is one of those stitch patterns that after you've worked a few repeats of it it's actually very easy to memorize and you don't even need to look at your pattern and you can just work it and create lots of beautiful things. Isn't that such a lovely stitch pattern?

And I love that it's just four rows. You're purling on the wrong side and actually the right sides are very similar. You're just offsetting the pattern repeat by one stitch. And it looks so beautiful, especially when it's worked on items that are worked from the bottom up. I really hope that you enjoyed learning how to knit the vine lace stitch pattern with me here at The Knitting Circle.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon.