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By: The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Seafoam Stitch

The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Seafoam Stitch — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:44:01 +0000

[...] Once I start fiddling with a particular technique, I always like to try fancier variations. So, naturally, I had to test out “Seafoam Stitch”. (If you aren’t familiar with elongated stitches, visit Elongated Garter Stitch, where I provide an illustrated tutorial.) [...]

By: lucia

lucia — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:20:47 +0000

Some people may call it a drop stitch, but I usually don’t call it that because, technically, no stitches are dropped. You do drop the yarn overs though.

If you read Vertical Drop Stitch you’ll see that that stitch involves creating stitches, knitting them a few rows, actually dropping them and letting them unravel.

Both the creation and dropping occur on rows 6 and 12. It’s a fun stitch, and it’s pretty easy.

By: Billi-Jean

Billi-Jean — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:12:35 +0000

I think this is what I call a “drop stitch”…?

By: Shirah Bell

Shirah Bell — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:56:41 +0000

Great explanation. I tried it, using #35 and found that it was very difficult to get the needle into the stitch I made with size 10 needle. Suggestions?
also, when I first learned this stitch, I did it a different way – I knit a stitch, took it off the needle as usual, then wrapped the yarn around the needle the requeiste number of times, then knit the next stitch. do you think there is a difference in the way it looks? I compaed and couldn’t see any difference, but I don’t have such a keen eye. Thanks

By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:10:38 +0000

I was going to show seafoam today! It’s on page 218 of Walkers 2nd treasury. It’s very, very pretty!

I think I can easily code up the cape Yvonne wanted. It’s just a yoke type shaping– you can even see the severe increases in the first row. Since it’s a stitch that can be made witha condo needle, she could use that. But, I do think seafoam would make a beautiful top or scarf out of a luxury fiber.

By: kbsalazar

kbsalazar — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:51:20 +0000

Delighted that it worked! Good on you too for spotting that this is in fact the same effect you can do with a condo needle, or any two needles of wildly different sizes.

One advantage to using the wrap rather than the condo needle method is that you can vary the number of the wraps. There’s an elongated stitch variant B.Walker named “Seafoam” that’s a 7 stitch repeat (no book in front of me to check, so it may in fact be a 9 stitch repeat). You start off with a one wrap knit, then do a couple of two-wrap knits, then a three-wrapper, two two-wraps, and then a one wrap to finish the set. On the next elongated row, you start the sequence in the middle with the three-wrap stitch so that the lozenge shapes produced by the differing wrap counts nest into each other.

Best wishes for project sucess! -K.