The Feather and Fan stitch is a popular lace stitch that looks like a combination of feathers and fans lined up side-by-side across the work. This stitch is rated intermediate, but it is on the easier side. The Feather and Fan stitch is a four-row repeat and is knitted in a multiple of eighteen stitches plus two. Just like the Fan stitch, the Feather and Fan stitch’s wave-like characteristics make it perfect for edgings on sleeves, scarves, and many other knitted projects.
Pattern
Skill: intermediate
Multiple of 18sts + 2
Row 1 (RS): knit.
Row 2: purl.
Row 3: k1, *(k2tog)x3, (yo, k1)x6, (k2tog)x3; rep from * to the last st, k1.
Row 4: knit.
Repeat Rows 1-4.
Abbreviations:
K2TOG (Knit 2 Together)
Insert the right-hand needle into the first two stitches on the left-hand needle and wrap the working yarn around the right-hand needle as if you would for a knit stitch. Pull the yarn through both stitches and slide both stitches off the left-hand needle. You have now knitted two stitches together, thus resulting in a right-leaning decrease.
yo
(yarn over)=wrap the yarn around the right-hand needle from back to front counterclockwise before knitting the next stitch. Then work the next stitch as normal.
More knitting abbreviations, HERE.
