Bobbles are a lovely way to add texture to a knitting project. I’ve used them myself to add interest to an otherwise rather plain stockinette shawl body in my Moerbei shawl. They’re also rather popular as an extra design element on cabled sweaters. In the basis a bobble is nothing more than a single stitch that is increased to a collection of stitches (usually 3, 5, or 7 stitches), worked back and forth and then decreased back again to a single stitch. There are, however, many ways to go about this.
In this tutorial I will show you a 5-stitch version of a bobble. Read on for more details!
Materials used
Yarn:Â Paintbox Yarns Simply DK, a good value, good quality 100% acrylic yarn, here in the color Lime.
Knitting needles: This is a pair of straights that I picked up at the second-hand store when I started knitting, brand unknown.
Knitting a bobble step by step
- First, work in your piece of knitting to the point where you want to make the bobble.
- Next, insert the right-hand needle into the center of the next stitch on the needle, and work a [k1, yo, k1, yo, k1] increase into that stitch.
- Turn you work, and purl the 5 stitches you increased to.
- Again turn you work, and knit the 5 stitches you increased to.
- Now, pass the second stitch from the tip of the right-hand needle over the first one (the last stitch knitted).
- Repeat step 5 another 3 times, until you only have 1 stitch left.
- The result: a lovely 5-stitch bobble!
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