Wanting to branch out and see if I liked to do more complicated patterns, I turned to the basket weave stitch. Through various car trips, these two scarves resulted. The patterns are beautiful. In the end, I decided that both are relatively easy , but I like the basket weave stitch because I like knitting where I can just look to see the pattern instead of counting constantly.
Click here to see the moss stitch explained. The basket weave pattern was a simple k2 p2 pattern for 3 rows and then switching to a p2 k2 pattern for 3 rows and then repeating.
Basket Weave Stitch
Moss Stitch Closeup
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