How to knit a ruffle

Ruffles are usually something you want to add to something. It tends to look better that way. Rather than just going into a ruffle pattern instead of Binding Off and then picking up the stitches and making the ruffle pattern.

There are some different ways to pick up and knit stitches. One way is to tie the yarn you are going to make the ruffle with to the tail yarn that is the left over from the Casting On at the beginning. And using a crochet hook, I tend to use a size 5/H, pick up the yarn (you are using for the ruffle) with the hook and pull through last loop of every row along that edge. You want to pull the loops through so that they come out on the top. You can then slip the loops off of the crochet hook and onto your knitting needle.

1. pick up the number of stitches divisible by 4.


2. Purl


3. Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 3, [Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 2] 4 times, Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 3


4. knit the knit stitches, purl the purl stitches and the new stitches (make 1).


5. Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 4, [Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 3] 4 times, Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 4


6. repeat row 3


7. Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 5, [Purl2, Make 1, Knit 4] 4 times, Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 5


8. repeat row 3


9. Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 6, [Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 5] 4 times, Purl 2, Make 1, Knit 6 [You can continue to make the ruffle wider just increase one after every purl stitch on the right side and repeat row 3 for every wrong side]


10. Bind off stitches in the pattern (meaning bind off knit stitches as knit stitches and purl stitches as purl stitches. (ruffle instructions from "boutique knits")

Make 1(M1) can be interchanges with Yarn overs (Yo) instead either way it makes a ruffle.

M1 (Make 1): Lift the yarn lying between the stitch just worked and the next stitch and place it on the left hand needle, then knit (from learn2knit.co.uk )

YO (Yarn Over): When working on the knit side of Stockinette Stitch hold the yarn at the back of the work. Pull the yarn forward between he two needles and over the right needle to the back of the work. Knit the next stitch. (from knit 911. com )

always something to learn

While going through my new Stitchionary book today making washcloths and face cloths (smaller wash cloths) learning the fan stitch I came across "P2tog tbl" not knowing what that meant I googled it and found the info below.

P2tog tbl (purl 2 together through back loop)

I'm not yet to the point where I know all the knitting lingo out there, so, for the time being I am a knitting sponge soaking up all there is to learn.

Last night I joined the girls in the smitten-for-knittin Ravelry group. It was fun. There were two blankets being made by two crocheters and the projects below were being knitted my myself and the other knitter there.

TMNT Masks

(finished knitting)

(after crochet eyes)

(before crochet eyes)

I know some boys who love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and after being on a knitting frenzy lately. I came up with this.

Knit in stockinet with the eye section knit open like a rectangle to go back crochet around the eye opening to make it two holes & with the ends of the mask decreased to make an angle to mimic the rolling up of a bandana like the TMNT use for their eye masks.

Knit with Lion Brand Wool Yarn in colors Pumpkin & Purple
Needle Size US6(purple) and US8(orange)

Here is the free pattern:
row 1-7 (bottom half), 8-12 (left side of eyes), 13-17 (right side of eyes), 18-24 (top half)

1. CO 162
2. P
3. K1, K2tog, knit to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
4. p
5. K1, K2tog, knit to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
6. P
7. K1, K2tog, K 63, BO 27, K 63, ssk, K1
8. (left side of eyes (BO stitches) on mask) P till BO
9. K to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
10. P till BO
11. K to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
12. P till BO, CO 27, cut yarn leaving a 6 inch tail
13. (right side of eyes (BO stitches) on mask) P
14. K1, K2tog, K till BO
15. P till end
16. K1, K2tog, K till BO
17. P till end
18. K1, K2tog, K to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
19. P
20. K1, K2tog, K to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
21. P
22. K1, K2tog, K to last 3 stitches, ssk, K1
23. P
24. (Bind Off Row)K1, K2tog, psso, continue to BO till last 3 stitches, ssk, psso, K1, psso, cut yarn, tie off

Weave in ends. Go back and crochet around eye hole & in the middle crochet two stitches on the bottom to two stitches on the top to make the eye opening two eye holes. Also crochet across CO edging because that seems to have come out more loose than the BO edging and will lay more flat on the face if you reinforce it with crocheting. The Lion Brand wool yarn says it is good for felting on the tag. I haven't felted one yet, so I'll post about how felting one turns out when I do so because the pattern wants to roll. I'm also making one with a seed stitch to stop the rolling.

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if you make a mask please post a picture of it :)