How To Knit: Yarn Over Selvedge | Brooklyn Tweed

This Brooklyn Tweed knitting tutorial shows you how to work a yarn over selvedge, often seen in traditional Shetland-style shawls that are knitted from the bottom up.
0:53 To start, cast on 1 stitch by making a slip knot on your needle.
1:13 Set up row: Knit front and back (KFB) into the slip knot.
1:46 Work a yarn over (YO) at the beginning of every row: bring working yarn over R needle from front to back to make a YO, then knit into the first stitch on the L needle.
4:41 Modify this technique to knit without increasing on every row.
6:26 To add an edging, stitches are picked up from the yarn over loops on the edges of the center triangle, and the edging section is worked outwards from these stitches.
8:10 See this technique in action in some of our shawl patterns!
Brooklyn Tweed knitting pattern: Perch
Designer: Gudrun Johnston
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Brooklyn Tweed knitting pattern: Sandness
Designer: Gudrun Johnston
Yarn: Brooklyn Tweed Loft
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[@judithburke3637]

Brilliant

[@BrooklynTweed_Official]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@gulsumyamanakharman9329]

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[@BrooklynTweed_Official]

Thank you! 😃

[@AnnMDS]

Great video! Surprised you didn't show the yarn-over selvedge on your Rock Island shawl. Great use of it there.

[@vkeaton]

Great simple technique! vk

[@potironcreates6652]

Great technique - and very clear explanations.
How do you apply it on stockinette, i.e. on the wrong side row with purl stitches?

[@BrooklynTweed_Official]

Hello, thank you for your question! To work a yarn over at the beginning of a purl row, you'll place your needle on top of the working yarn (vs. behind it) and bring the yarn around it before purling the first stitch.

[@EV-D-10]

Just great, looks so good, is easy and very useful! I was wondering how one could decrease after having knit a triangle, how to knit and end up with 1 stitch again? So a diamond, or a square?

[@BrooklynTweed_Official]

Hello, thank you for your question! To decrease total stitches and narrow your fabric while continuing a yarn over selvedge, you would want to work a double decrease (rather than a single decrease) such as k3tog or SSSK at the edges of your fabric to decrease a stitch in addition to the stitch canceled out by the yarn over.

[@EV-D-10]

@@BrooklynTweed_Official Thank you, yes that seems the way to do it. I will try that and with pleasure! Thank you again!