Ribbing is an essential part of knitwear. The Rib Stitch creates an elastic fabric of textured vertical lines that are often found in socks, cuffs, necklines and hats. If you know how to do knit and purl stitches, you are well on your way to learning the rib stitch.
Written Pattern
The pattern is created by alternating 2 knit stitches with 2 purl stitches within the same row. On the purl side knit the first and last two stitches to get a garter border, then knit the knit stitches and purl the purl stitches. To create a tighter stitch with less stretch, alternate 1 knit stitch with 1 purl stitch.
Transcript
It's the rib stitch, and we're gonna start the rib stitch by doing two knit stitches as a garter border like we've done before. Just gives me something to latch on to. Now we start the rim stitch. We go one knit, two knit switch to purl, one purl, two purl. Switch to knit, one stitch, two stitch. Switch to purl, one stitch, two stitch. Switch to knit, one stitch, two stitch. Switch to purl, one stitch, two. Switch the knit, switch to purl, switch to knit and two knit stitches as the garter border and there you go you got the basic rib stitch. Again you can anytime you want if you want to do a different combination of knit and purl you can certainly do that depends on what you want the stretch to look like. So you can go one knit, one purl, one knit, one purl that's going to be tighter or you can go two knits, one purl that's also a little tighter. You're not going to have that in the middle but basically anytime you need something that's a little on the stretchy side. This is your basic rib stitch!
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