Monica Knits

I decided to try the Baby Fern stitch pattern for a summer top I am knitting. Here it is shown in a fingering weight acrylic yarn. Read more ..... for the stitch pattern and yarn details. Click on the image to view a larger version.

Yarn: Coats, Red Heart brand, Lustre-Sheen, in Coral Blush (262), 100%, fingering weight acrylic yarn, 57 gm skein

Pattern Source: Virginia Colton, editor. Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, N.Y./Montreal, 1979, p. 306. Click here to read the article: "My Favorite Books.

Stitch Pattern: multiple of 12 sts

Rows 1, 3, 5 (WS): purl across
Row 2:                   (k2tog, k2, yo, k1, yo, k2, SSK*, p1, k1, p1) across
Row 4:                   (k2tog, k1, yo, k3, yo, k1, SSK, p1, k1, p1) across
Row 6:                   (k2tog, yo, k5, yo, SSK, p1, k1, p1) across
* The original pattern had a Sl 1, k1, PSSO decrease, however the SSK looks better, so I modified the instructions from the original.

Click here to transfer to: Stitch Patterns, for information on increases and decreases (yo, k2tog and SSK).