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Braid Panel Afghan Square Braid Panel Afghan Square From "Knitty Gritty" episode DKNG-205

When you knit cables, you cross knit stitches over other knit stitches. The braid panel differs from the cable panels by requiring you to cross knit stitches over purl stitches. This type of knitting creates a lattice effect.

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	Braid cable (left cross)
	Braid cable (right cross)

Using Plymouth's Encore Worsted and size 7 (4.5 mm) 16" circular needles, cast on 60 sts. Work 5 rows garter stitch (knit every row), increasing 14 sts evenly across last row (74 sts).

Keeping first and last three sts of each row in garter stitch, work patt across center 68 sts as foll:

Row 1 (WS): K4, [p4, k4] eight times.
Row 2: P2, [2/2 RPC, 2/2 LPC] eight times, p2.
Row 3 and all WS rows: Knit the knits and purl the purls.
Row 4: P2, k2, p4, [2/2 RC, p4] seven times, k2, p2.
Row 6: P2, [2/2 LPC, 2/2 RPC] eight times, p2.
Row 8: P4, [2/2 LC, p4] eight times.

Rep rows 1-8 a total of 9 times. Discontinue cable pattern and work 5 rows of garter stitch, decreasing 14 sts evenly across first row of garter stitch (60 sts). Bind off loosely.

Knit Bit: In the 17th and 18th centuries, women of the Aran Islands taught their daughters how to knit using goose feathers!

RESOURCES :

Plymouth Yarn Company’s Encore Worsted yarn
Plymouth Yarn Company
Website: www.plymouthyarn.com

GUESTS :
Janet Szabo
Knitting expert
Big Sky Knitting Designs
Website: www.BigSkyKnitting.com
E-mail: Janet@BigSkyKnitting.com