Knitting Tutorial How to Knit a Chevron Scarf.

Today's knitting tutorial features this stunning chevron scarf. I will show you row by row how to knit it. My voice narration will guide you through this entire video tutorial and to make sure you are successful, I also have the pattern text displayed at the top of the screen and animated red highlights show you exactly what stitch I'm working on. I took the time to draw the pattern diagram for all your visual learners and my innovative progress bar at the bottom of the screen will show you exactly the row I'm working on. So grab your needles and your yarn and let's get started. Look how amazing this looks with the multi-colored yarn that I'm using. This knitted chevron scarf is a classic pattern and in typical chevron fashion, the beginning and the end of your scarf is going to have these peaks and valley which makes it extra special. For this specific scarf, I use this beautiful round knitting needle which is a US size number 8 which is a 5 millimeter knitting needle. The pattern repeat for this chevron scarf is 14 stitches. So this is one pattern repeat of 14 stitches. So for my specific scarf, I did 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 repeats of the chevron pattern and you add one stitch on each side for the edges. So it's multiple of 14 plus 2 edge stitches. So you can make your scarf as narrow or as wide as you want to. Just add in multiple of 14. Here I made a little sample for you. This is exactly one repeat. So here I casted on 14 stitches plus an edge stitch in the beginning and edge stitch in the end for 16 stitches. And you can see as you work up, the decreases happen here in the center and then here on the bottom you're going to have this beautiful tip. For the purpose of the tutorial, I'm going to be using the same size knitting needle that I did my scarf in and I'm going to use a solid yarn color to make it easier for you to see. I'm going to cast on 2 repeats for today which means I'm going to cast on 14 stitches multiplied by 2 which is 28 plus 2 edge stitches. So that's a grand total of 30 stitches. So a lot of you have asked me in the past why I use both needles to cast on and basically it just makes my first row of stitches not so tight making it much much easier for you to start your first row. So this chevron knitting pattern is worked over two rows only. The first stitch and the last stitch will always be knitted okay no matter if you're on the first row or the second row. So you just knit the first, knit the second one. So to get started we're gonna knit our first stitch and for the first row and every other row you're going to purl all the stitches. So I'm a continental style knitter. I would love to hear from you are you a continental style knitter or are you an english knitter? Okay here's my last stitch and we're just going to knit the last stitch and the first stitch. So that was row number one. Row number two as well as all other rows we're gonna start out with a knit one that's our edge stitch. So here's your pattern repeat. The first thing is going to say KFB that means knit front and back. So you're going to knit your stitch but you're not going to take it off the left needle. You leave it on and then you're going to insert your needle into the back of the same stitch and you're going to knit the back stitch. So you're going to increase this one stitch into two. Okay so that was your KFB knit front and back. Then we're going to do knit four. One two three four and now we're going to do our decreases. So if you look at my one repeat sample here here are decreases. You're going to do a decrease and it's going to lean to the left and you're going to do a decrease that leans to the right. So that creates this beautiful pattern. So the first decrease is a SSK that stands for slip slip knit. So slip slip and then you knit these two stitches together. Okay so you just decrease by one and then you have a K2TOG that stands for knit two together. So you're going to take the next two stitches and through the front loop from the left from left to right you're going to knit these two stitches together. Okay so you just decrease two times and then you're going to do a knit four. One two three four and you're going to end the repeat with another knit front and back KFB. So knit the front, leave the stitch on the left hand side and then knit the back to create another stitch and then you can take it off the left hand side. And that was your 14 stitch pattern repeat. So let's do this again together. So KFB knit front and back followed by a knit four. One two three four and then we're going to do our two decreases in the center. So SSK slip slip knit and then we do knit two together and then we knit four. One two three four and then we end with a KFB knit front and back and in our last stitch we just knit. And that was your two row repeat. So let's go ahead and knit these two rows together one more time. So here row number three in this case we knit our first stitch and then all you're going to do is purl the rest of the row. All right I'm almost at the end of row number three in this case and last stitch as always knit the last stitch. We're starting out with knitting our edge stitch and then the pattern asks for a knit front and back. So you knit the front leg leave your stitch on the left needle and you insert your hook into the back of the stitch and you do or create another knit. So now you have two stitches you can drop it off your left needle. So that was your KFB followed by a knit four and then we're going to do an SSK slip slip knit then we do a knit two together. That was the two decreases and then we're going to do a knit four and then we do another KFB knit front knit back. Okay so you can already start seeing how this starts to dip down. So let's do it one more time knit front and back knit four one two three four and then SSK and then knit two together followed by one two three four knit stitches and then you do another knit front and knit back and then our last stitch we always knit and that was your two row repeat. Okay so for those that want to do exactly the same scarf that I do in regards to width and length. So this scarf here is about 11 and a half inches in width which is equivalent to 29.2 centimeters and in regards to the length this one is really really long. I made this one 101 inches long and that is equivalent to 256 centimeters because I wanted to make sure that I can wrap this around my neck a couple times. So I needed a couple more rows so you can see what the pattern is going to start looking like so you can see here's each of our repeat and you can see how the decreases in the middle how it creates this beautiful peak and valley pattern at the edge. And then in case you're wondering so it always looks like you know on the top it's wider but that's just because you know the decrease here in the middle is going to pull it in together so as you're getting longer in your project it starts to narrow in. Okay so don't panic about that but that is your two row repeat to make this awesome classic chevron scarf pattern. So I hope you give this a try if you like my tutorial and how thorough I am I love to hear from you give me a like subscribe would be the ultimate compliment.