A Year of Stitches week 5

Back to the stitches.

Week 5 knit

This is a multiple of 10 stitches.   I have a parallelogram knit and purl stitch. It looks best done in a multitude of the stitch multiple.

Cast on 30 or any other multiple of 10.

R1: RS :: * k5, p5. Repeat from * to the end.
R2: WS :: k4, * p5, k5. Repeat from * to the end, ending k1
R3: p2, * k5, p5. Repeat from * to the end, ending p3.
R4:  k2, * p5, k5. Repeat from *to the end, ending k3
R5:  p4, * k5, p5.  Repeat from *to the end, ending p1.
R6: * p5, k5. Repeat from * to the end.
Repeat these 6 rows to the desired length.

Crochet week 5

This is a multiple of 5 stitches plus 4.  This is a lacy shell stitch using double crochet and chain stitches.

For the swatch, ch 24.

R1:  dc in 5th ch from hook (counts as dc, ch 1), * sk 4 ch, in the next st (dc, ch 1) 3x, dc. Repeat from *to the end, ending with dc, ch 1, dc in top of ch 3.  Turn.
R2: ch 4, * in center ch 1 space of next  shell,  (dc, ch 1) 3x dc. Repeat from * to the end,  ending dc, ch 1, dc in top of last dc

Repeat R2 for desired size.