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Hello, dear knitters and crocheters. Today I'd like to show you this beautiful triangular shawl, which of course won't be exactly visible in this small shot, but it's a shawl that is knitted with degradé yarn, that is, yarn that goes from colour to colour like this. This scarf is knitted from a single ball of yarn that is made by a company called Sheepies, depending on how you read it. It's a Dutch company. This one here is 50% cotton and 50% acrylic. Now they're also now making it out of 30% wool, which we're going to be offering now as well, both of those yarns. I knit with the cotton yarn here first. You know very well that man-made fibres are not very comfortable for me and I don't like them. However, here in this composition with cotton you can get such a beautiful spring, autumn, summer bedspread or blouse dress from it, crochet it. It's a very nice yarn. For being cotton, I was expecting it to be kind of coarser, stiffer. It's not, it's really soft, beautiful. It is a four stranded yarn, and the four stranded yarn is always gradually being replaced with a lighter and lighter shade. And so it does the effect beautifully afterwards. We're here now to show you how the shawl starts to knit, which we know. This is a classic triangular shawl, knitted from here. It's cast on, you can see that I've got the holes acknowledged here, which doesn't matter at all. But what I'm primarily concerned with is showing you this pattern, which I call, I don't know if it has a name, but I call it peacock feathers. They're actually cast-on stitches. Eight new stitches are cast into one stitch and it creates this nice open hole. I have to say that when I turned the lace off, it was beautifully open, the stitches were even bigger. And then the moment I took it off the pin, it started to close up a little bit again. The eye is caused by the material, it's mainly the acrylic that does it. It's very flexible, of course, and the moment I let go of the pins, it makes a mess. I should have just listened to myself, of course, and knit in wool, merino, alpaca or whatever animal material. This time I tried the cotton with acrylic, I still think the result is gorgeous and I'm sure I'll enjoy it in other parts of the year when wool can't be worn much because it's warm, so this definitely won't be warm. You have to take into account that where we have cotton with acrylic, it doesn't warm us up, but it does decorate and it's nice against, say, a spring breeze. So, let's get on with it, first of all, let's repeat how to start the triangular shawl. I've zoomed in a little bit here now so you can see my hands better. And I'm going to use the needles that we've already introduced once. These are Addi needles. They're Flexi-bel needles and they're interesting because they have a cord, so they're not the classic circular needles, but the cord is terminated with this end, this knob. And it's basically the equivalent of straight needles. That is, who wants to save his hands, not to strain his forearm and elbow, but he doesn't like using classic circular needles, he's not used to them, and they just get on his nerves, so he can choose this half-assed thing here, which are needles that look like circular needles, but they're actually classic long needles. Because I'm actually knitting the shawl back and forth, knit and purl, so I could knit it on long needles, of course, but because the shawl is so big, then I'd have an awful lot of stitches on the long needle, the needle would be heavy, I'd have a hard time knitting, and this solves the situation, of course, because the yarn shifts. I've got some test, practice yarn here, so it's 100% merino, some of that, not bad, but the colour didn't really catch my eye, I've still got it stashed here, so we'll use it now. So, how do we start a triangular shawl? We take the yarn and cast on three stitches, the way we're used to starting. Once again, for beginners, I cast on slowly, so I'm going to wrap my thumb around like this and now from the bottom, one stitch, second stitch, third stitch. So, I've cast on three stitches, just three stitches, no more, I pull it off the needle and now knit six rows, knit one, knit two, knit three, slipping the yarn off before working as we're used to. I take one, two off the yarn before working, that's two rows. Third row. So the cables are a bit tangled here, I'm not quite used to it, but of course it's all about practice. The fourth one too, when there's something to sow, I won't get that jiggle. Fifth row, then. Anyone who hasn't done a triangular shawl before might wonder what kind of caterpillar I'm knitting, but that's just the beginning of the stitches I'm poking. And the last row, the sixth row. I've got this funny little cancoure that I'm going to use now, and I'm going to put the beginning of the scarf in it. So I'll make three stitches. One, two, three. I'm going to knit all three this time, not that I'm taking the last one off, but I've knit all three stitches. Now, I'm going to put it together like this, so I'm looking at it, so I've got it on the right, the needle, and now I'm actually going to poke these, one, two, three, four, five stitches. So I'm gonna pull that out, that needle, and that wire, and I'm not gonna. Here, when I look at it now, like this from the side, now I've actually got one, two, three, four. So, I told you wrong, I'm not going to stick five stitches in there, but then. Now I've got the stitches like this, so here I'm going to pick up this first one, no, I've already used that for this eye, here I'm going to pick up both of them like this, the whole eyelet, and pick up the eye. Now the second one and the third one. Now, I'm going to pull it up like this again, the rope, and now into this edge here, the shortest one, so that's three stitches. I'm going to prick, that is, here I have, here it's kind of thickened, so I just need to pick up three stitches somewhere in there. Three stitches, one, two, and here's the third one. So, now you can see I get like this here one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine stitches and I got it. Now, I'm going to turn it over, pull the cord and get the needle back in the knitting. I take the other needle, who knits on circulars, of course knitting on circulars is no problem. Now, I'm going to knit over, I'm not going to knit the first stitch because I knitted it when I poked the edge stitch here. Now I'm going to knit it all back together, knit the nine stitches, or eight stitches back together, knit only, and knit the ninth stitch with yarn before working. So, now I've got this weird cancourek and I'm going to start unraveling on this triangle. That's actually the base, gosh darn the cable, it's bugging me here, well honestly, I'll stick with circulars, but anyone who likes straight needles can definitely use this. So, now I'm gonna, I'm gonna start unraveling. Always with a triangular shawl, as we've been saying, the first three stitches will be knit in the garter stitch, meaning knit in and knit back. That means, one, two, three, stitches, knit, now cast on, knit, cast on, knit, knit, knit, cast on, one, two, three. Now, if we look at this and count the stitches, we'll see that I cast on four stitches in this knitting. Now we're gonna knit it back together, and they're gonna see the stitches. Okay, I'll turn. Now be careful, there's going to be a change, which means we're only going to knit the first three stitches, one, two, three. And now we're going to purl all the way to the last three stitches, even the cast ons, and only knit the last three stitches again, one, two, and slip the last stitch with yarn before working. I turn it over, and when I put it on the cable like this, you can see that there are cast ons, you can see them a little bit now, four new stitches, one, two, three, four. Now we're always going to cast on four stitches on each of those odd rows, one stitch after the three, then one stitch before the middle, a third stitch just after the middle, and a fourth stitch just before the end. By increasing four stitches every other row, we'll naturally expand into that triangle. So I'm already pretty much on a long cancoura here, so I'm going to shorten it just to get it sewn in, then this is the cancoura that's here near the beginning. Now I'm extending the triangle again. I do one, two, three, cast on, now one, two, three knit, cast on again. This is the center stitch, and I'll mark it with a marker for beginners so they can always see when they have a center and when to cast on before and after the center. Advanced knitters can see it in the knitting of course, they don't need to mark it. I cast on the fourth last stitch before the last three, one, two, slip. So again, I increase four stitches at the beginning, at the end, and two near the middle. Knit back again, knit one, knit two, knit three. Not all stitches are purl. For anyone who knits just too fast, they can put on Knitting and Crochet School, which has everything in slow motion, and they can learn. Those who can knit, knit with me, those who can't, learn the basics first, you can't knit such a complicated shawl right away. Knit the last three stitches on the needle, knit, slip in yarn before working. When I put it on the cord, I can already see a tiny triangle starting to form. So, in this way, cast on one, two, three smoothly again. One, two, three, four, five. Last time it was three stitches, now it's five, then it's seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, and so on. I cast on a stitch in front of the centre, cast on behind the centre, one, two, three, four, five, cast on and the last three stitches, one, two, three. Turn again and work back row. Knit one, two, three and now all the other stitches are purl stitches, including the cast on, these will also be purl stitches. Knit one, two, three until the last three stitches are knitted. See, we're starting to get a triangle. Now we need to get to this point. This is where I started the triangle. And I need to get to the point where I'm going to have enough stitches here so far by casting on enough stitches to have already made this first crossing. So I'm going to knit four rows and I'll come back to you in a moment. So, I've now knit another four rows and now I have three stitches. I'm going to cast on here and here I have two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven stitches. Optimally, we'd have an even number of stitches, but we'd have to have two here at the beginning. Of course, if you're a stickler and you want to have it right in the middle, that's how you do the stitches. However, I don't think anyone will notice that I have one more stitch here than here. So we'll stick with the simpler option. That is, now I have eleven stitches here, so I'll knit the first five stitches, cross these two, then cross these four, cross the middle four, cross two and knit five. That's exactly what we're going to say and describe, and we're going to do exactly what I say. So the first three stitches are clear. One, two, three. Now we'll cast on to expand into a triangle and do one, two, three, four, five. Now we're going to cross two stitches. Cross in such a way that I'll put my right needle behind my work, leave the first stitch out, pick up the second stitch like this in the back, knit that stitch, and now knit the stitch that's left on my left needle also. Now I pull both stitches off the needle, and there is a crossover. You can't see it now, you'll see it when you knit a little further. Now I'll cast on one, two, three, four stitches, cast on the middle stitch, cast on one, two, three, four, so we'll cross the stitches again, we'll cross them in the same direction, we won't complicate it, we could cross one to the right, one to the left, but that's more complicated, and it won't be visible on the scarf at all. So I cross in such a way that I skip the first stitch while working the right needle, pick up the second stitch, knit it, slip it, knit it on the left needle, slip both stitches, I have crossed, one, two, three, four, five, cast on, one, two, slip the last stitch. Now I'm going to knit the whole shawl back together, knit the first three and knit the last three, purl the rest, no complications, just knit the stitches as they appear. That's quite a popular saying with knitters, to knit the stitches as they appear, that is, if the stitch appears, purl, knit purl, if knit, knit knit. Here all the stitches appear to be purl, so knit them that way. Only the last three, knit again, knit, purl. All right, now we're going to look at this work, and here we have these crossed stitches, and we're going to cast on these stitches here. We're going to cast on eight in total, the one single one in between the crossing. This is the crossing, you can see that at the beginning the crossing is not very visible, this is the first row that we've done now, but for the other stitches after that the crossing has a function. Now we're going to pick this up here and I'm going to show you how to stack eight stitches into one single stitch. Now, I'm going to cast on the first three stitches smoothly, one, two, three, four, five, so five, five, five again, just like the last row of five. Now I've got one stitch and it's crossing. So I've worked five stitches and now I'm going to knit these two stitches together from left to right. I, because I'm knitting in English, that is, the purl is very simple, and it turns my stitch in English, that is, I don't have this yarn in the front, but in the back, so I have to turn the two stitches like this first, so that it looks like a classic knit. For someone who knits normal knitting knits, this is how his knits appear. That is, I turn the stitches and now I'm going to knit them together from the left. Now I'm, here's the crossover, and now as I knit the two stitches from left to right, I've got this cross thread here and I'm just going to cast on the eight stitches into that. And it's cast on like this. I prick the stitch, knit it smoothly, now I use the left needle to help myself by sticking it in there, and I use the right needle, like this, from behind, to knit the second stitch, the third stitch, and I always use the left needle to help myself, as it were, to hold the ball in the stitch, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth. Now, I cast on eight stitches from the back, from the front, from the front, from the front, here on the cross thread, and these two stitches are now knitted from right to left like this. If you are knitting in the classic knit and purl way, you will knit by pulling through, that is, slipping one stitch, knitting one and pulling through. I'll show you in the next stitch. You can see that now I've got this big hole here, which is the big holes on this scarf, and now I've got eight stitches on the needle like this. Now I've got the four towards the center, just like the previous row, cast on in front of the center, cast on behind the center, one, two, three, four. Now I'm in front of the crossing again, that is, I'm going to turn the two stitches again so that I can weave them in from left to right, so I'm going to help this thread here again with my left needle and do one stitch, second from the back, third from the front, fourth from the back, fifth from the front, sixth from the back, seventh from the front, and eighth from the back. Now I can knit two stitches together by pulling them through, that is, I take a stitch, knit it and pull it through. Now, again, one, two, three, four, five, cast on, one, two, three. Now, I've knitted two holes here with a cast-on, and I'm going to knit that on the way back. Okay, one, two, three smooth, and turn everything else over. The cast on, the eight cast on stitches, I'm going to knit the purl stitches too, it's a little bit more complicated and we'll show you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And now I've got these eight stitches here, and they appear to be, now the first one here appears to be smooth, but we're going to knit all the purl. That means purl, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and all the others, and the center cast on, and the center stitch, all the purl stitches. So turn, turn, turn, everything, I'm going slow, turn, turn. So who's used to it, so he's knitting turns in the classic way, which is this. Yes, this. So I can't do that because it's always slipping off the needle and I've been knitting like this for 40 years, perfectly simple, but it turns my stitches. So, the last three stitches are knit, which means that I have the purl stitches, so I have to reverse the knitting of two stitches like this. So, you see, these big holes here, that's this big beautiful stitch with eight stitches cast on, so that's this one here. So then in the next part we'll show how to continue this pattern. I'm looking forward to the next part. You can find all the needles, yarns to knit beautiful scarves like this at www.katrincola.cz. I would love it if you would support me by sharing these videos on Facebook and other social media so your friends can see them and then of course I would love it if you would shop because that is actually the biggest support for making these videos. I salute you and I look forward to the next episode. Goodbye!
Translated from English to English by artificial intelligence. If you find errors in the text, please accept my apologies
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