In my continuing series of cute textured knit stitches based on ribbing, I bring you the Irregular Rib. It is a four-row repeat, and while it is not identical on both sides, I would still say it’s a pattern that can be used for a reversible stitch pattern because both sides are interesting and textured. It has a little bit of width-wise stretch because half of the stitches are ribbed but it does not snap back to the extent that a 1 x 1 ribbing would.
Finished Size: 8” wide x 52” long after a light blocking.
Materials:
1 skein Lion Brand Yarns Heartland® (CYCA 4 Medium; 100% acrylic; 5 oz; 251 yds) in Kobuk Valley #136-143T or desired colorway
Knitting needles size 7/4.5mm or size needed to obtain gauge
Gauge: 17 sts x 26 rows = 4” in irregular rib after a light blocking
While gauge is not critical for this pattern as long as you have a please fabric, remember if your gauge is tighter than might you will need an additional skein of yarn to get to the same measurements.
Notes:
You can easily adjust the scarf to make it longer by adding a second skein of yarn and knitting more rows, or widen or narrow the scarf by adjusting the cast-on. Just make sure you have cast on an odd number of stitches.
As with all the ribbed scarves I have done, there is a side edging on each side of 3 garter stitches. If you just want to learn the stitch pattern, remove the first and last 3 stitches of each row.
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Check out our other rib knit patterns – Fisherman’s Rib, Broken Rib and Mistake Rib.
Abbreviations:
K – knit
P – purl
Rep – repeat
RS – right side
WS – wrong side
Scarf:
With long-tail cast-on, cast on 33 stitches.
Rows 1 – 4: Knit.
Row 5 (RS): K3, p across until 3 sts remain, k3.
Row 6 (WS): Knit.
Row 7: K3, p1, *k1, p1. Rep across until 3 sts remain, k3.
Row 8: K4, *p1, k1. Rep from * across until 3 sts remain, k3.
Rep Rows 5 – 8 for pattern to desired length (or about 51”), ending with a Row 6.
Knit 5 more rows, bind off knitwise.
Weave in ends.