[books]

What's your personal most favorite stitch? I like checkerboard or rib (do a lot of rib scarves, boring I know, but I find the repetition relaxing.) Anything new that anyone is willing to share?

 

[martina]

Plain old garter stitch is my favourite knitting stitch. U.K. Treble my favourite crochet stitch.

 

[ilmacheryl]

I like to do cables, but I hate k1, p1 ribbing and seed stitch for the same reason.

 

[books]

I'm too intimidated to do cables, they look tricky, but it is something I'd like to master. Maybe when I retire and have enough time. In 25 years....

 

[dotdot]

i like rib stitches and the sand stitch / plain ol' stockinette / gosh i just love all the stitches

 

[books]

What's sand stitch? I, too, am fascinated by stitches. Must be a knitting nerd!

 

[galaxycraft]

What's sand stitch? I, too, am fascinated by stitches. Must be a knitting nerd!

http://www.knitting-bee.com/knitting-pattern-treasury/knit-purl-combinations/sand-stitch-knitting-pattern

 

[RoxyCatlady]

Oh, dear - can't narrow it down that much! In knit, I like cables. I like lace. I like knit/purl texture patterns. I like colorwork (almost all of it!). I like garter stitch. I like stocking stitch. I pretty much like any stitch!!

About the only thing I don't like is using slip stitch to create colour work. Like, where you knit a row with one colour, then use the second colour but slip some of the stitches on the first row, then use the first colour again but slip the stitches done in the second row/colour... I can't think of a pattern example at the moment, because I avoid them, lol... I'm also not fond of duplicate stitch for creating pictures on knitting...

I don't mind some of the slip stitch patterns for texture, where you only use the one colour of yarn.

In crochet, I guess I'm the same way - I like them all!! I like the basic stitches, I like the shells, I like the V stitches, I like the bobbles and popcorns and clusters. I even like Tunisian crochet!

 

[run4fittness]

love cables, the feather and fan, cables, pleats, did I mention cables?????

 

[dotdot]

you need to see both sides of the sand stitch pattern / one side looks like a rib and the resverse looks like the pcture posted / i am using this stitch for a baby alpaca sweater which i will put together so that it can be worn "inside out"

http://www.knitting-bee.com/knitting-pattern-treasury/knit-purl-combinations/sand-stitch-knitting-pattern

 

[Joy Marshall]

I'm too intimidated to do cables, they look tricky, but it is something I'd like to master. Maybe when I retire and have enough time. In 25 years....

You don't need to retire to learn cables. You can learn them in 5 minutes of less. They are one of the simplest stitches.
I like tent stitch, and, of course, entrelac.

 

[Cathryn 2ed]

I'm too intimidated to do cables, they look tricky, but it is something I'd like to master.
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To learn to do a simple cable takes a few minutes. You should not wait so long to start enjoying them.

 

[SouthernGirl]

Cables.

 

[books]

Thanks, everybody! Maybe I'll try cables for my next scarf!

 

[darowil]

Thanks, everybody! Maybe I'll try cables for my next scarf!

Well in that case go to the link under this post. One of the KP workshops is 3 scarves for Christmas (not sure of the exact title). The third one has a simple cable in it and includes information as to how do the cable. Closed workshops can be read, you just can't ask questions through them.

 

[bettyirene]

I like a mixture - a little bit of everything - stops me getting bored.

 

[hen]

Feather and fan is a personal favourite

 

[Anna3703]

The Bee stitch. I love doing it and also the looks of it. And it's easy too.

 

[reners]

The Sand Stitch looks like a nice one to use for a washcloth. Does it curl and therefore need a border?
Thank you in advance for your reply-- we are on the road and I may not be back here for a while.

 

[Sharonll]

I love to do entralac