Free Knitting Stitch Vandyke Check.
The Vandyke Check knitting stitch pattern, despite its somewhat formal-sounding name, is a relatively simple yet visually appealing textured design. It’s characterized by a subtle, repeating squares and diagonals motif created through the interplay of knit and purl stitches. It’s not a complex lace or cable pattern, but rather falls into the category of “easy texture” stitches, suitable even for knitters with moderate experience. The ‘check’ is very much a textured ‘chequered effect’, but, is called check in many knitting instruction booklets and so can be interchanged.
Cast On:
Multiple of 8 sts.
Free Knitting Stitch
Row I (RS): Knit.
Row 2: *K4, p4; rep from *.
Row 3: P1, *k4, p4; rep from *, end last rep p3 instead of p4.
Row 4: K2, *p4, k4; rep from *, end last rep k2, instead of k4.
Row 5: P3, *k4, p4; rep from *, end last rep p1 instead of p4.
Row 6: *P4, k4; rep from *.
Row 7: Knit.
Rows 8, 9, 10 and 11: *K4, P4, rep from *.
Row 12: Purl.
Row 13: *P4, k4; rep from *.
Row 14: K1, *p4, k4; rep from *, end last rep k3 instead of k4.
Row 15: P2, *k4, p4; rep from *, end last rep p2 instead of p4.
Row 16: K3, *p4, k4; rep from *, end last rep k1 instead of k4.
Row 17: *K4, p4; rep from *.
Row 18: Purl.
Rows 19, 20, 21 and 22: *P4, k4; rep from *.
Repeat rows I to 22.
