Grafting wide ribs

If you know how to graft in Stockinette stitch, you can easily adapt that skill to grafting wide ribs.

For a wide rib as in my Sonoma and Pueblo stoles and in S Curve scarves:
Treat each wide rib as stockinette st, beginning the graft with a knitwise rib.

After inserting your tapestry needle into the last knit stitch of this knitwise rib, move to the next stitch in that row by inserting the needle into its purl side (which will be on the opposite side of the fabric as the purl side of the previous stitch),

then do the same in the last knit stitch of the opposite row.

Now turn the fabric (both pieces) over to the other side. The next rib, which had been a purlwise rib on the other side, is now a knitwise rib, and can again be worked as stockinette st up to the last knit stitches of the rib. And so on.


A video tutorial is in the works and should be up online by early December. Please stay tuned ...


Also see this tutorial on how to simplify your grafting, whether it's in stockinette, rib, reverse stockinette - top to top or top to bottom ... One simple rule applies.