The Button Stitch

This stitch was featured in a sweater pattern book from the library, and I thought it was very, very cute. I have needed to complete something, too, so I whipped up a cotton washcloth made in the Button Stitch.

This pattern is purl 1 row, knit 1 row, in stockinette stitch for five rows. Knit one row of button stitches. Repeat.


The Button Stitch

From the front, insert the Right Hand Needle (RHN) between the second and third stitch on the Left Hand Needle (LHN). Yarn over (YO), pull a stitch through to the front and place on the left-hand needle. Knit this stitch. Slip the next two stitches from left to right as if to purl. Slip the third stitch on the RHN (the one you just knitted) over the two slipped stitches.


In this sample, I knitted a full row of button stitches with no spacing stitches between.