Spider Edging

The original instructions in Tessa Lorant's Collection of Knitted Lace Edgings* suggest:

  • Work k5tog as follows: [slip 1 st as if to knit] twice, k3tog, pass 2 slipped sts over k3tog.
  • Work bind-off on row 6 purlwise.

See also these revisions.


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Shown with a cast-on count of 9 stitches.   Getting chart...

  • Row 1 (RS): [Yo, k2tog] twice, [yo, k1] 3 times, yo, k2 (13 sts).
  • Row 2: P11, k2.
  • Row 3: [Yo, k2tog] twice, yo, k3, yo, k1, yo, k3, yo, k2 (17 sts).
  • Row 4: P15, k2.
  • Row 5: [Yo, k2tog] twice, yo, k5tog, yo, k1, yo, k5tog, yo, k2 (13 sts).
  • Row 6: BO 4 sts, p6, k2 (9 sts).