PATRIOTIC PENNANT BANNER Summer Knit Series - YouTube

How to Knit a Pennant Banner

Hi, Guys! I'm Kristen and thank you for joining me

here on STUDIO KNIT where I am continuing the SUMMER KNIT SERIES with

4th of July upon us I am creating this banner and the colors of a red

white and blue you can get creative with your own yarn colors to create festive

leaf or any other holiday as well this is an easy level project perfect for

anyone who's completed my ABSOLUTE BEGINNER KNITTING SERIES and all we're

doing our knits and yarn over increases the triangle shapes are knitted flat

from the bottom up and you're increasing your stitches to create your triangle

and the two sides of the triangle have a really pretty airy eyelet border our

isosceles triangle is about eight inches high in my sample here and then each

side is about nine inches and once you're ready to bind off we're doing the

stretchy bind-off it allows it to line nice and flat you'll see that using

solid yarn it's a garter stitch pattern and it is totally reversible and if you

create yours knitting in stripes one side the right side will look perfect

but it's not reversible because on the back side the wrong side it's not really

the side that you want people to see and to make this extra patriotic I am adding

a star embellishment to mine I will have the link to the free video and knitting

pattern for you in the description below and of course the free written pattern

for this pennant banner is available over on my website email subscribers can

also download a printable PDF as well and while you're over there check out my

entire SUMMER KNIT SERIES I love coming up with really creative ideas where we

can keep during the warm months of summer I think

you'll find a project that is perfect for you at this time of year and if you

enjoy this free knitting pattern idea please like up this video and of course

subscribe to my channel here at studio knit for our materials starting with

knitting needles I'm using size 11 you can use any size you'd like of course

scissors and tapestry needle and my yarn I'm using red white and blue and again

you can get really creative and customize your banner with any color or

yarn size that you'd like the yarn I'm using today is from BERNAT it's a great

outdoor yarn it comes in both solids and striped they've grafted a really great

color change for us here but for my purposes I'm going to cut that and use

this as two different yarn colors and I also went ahead and got this red yarn

color and this outdoor yarn by Burnett is really cool because you can keep it

outside it doesn't fade and if it gets wet outside it doesn't get moldy either

so I am probably going to be using this for a future yarn bomb as well

okay let's knit it up to begin we start with our beloved Slipknot using the

longtail cast on method we're going to begin by casting on three stitches and

that is the bottom little point of our triangle row one of our four row repeat

is k1 that is knitting one stitch now the next is why oh that's yarn over and

what we do with our working yarn here we're going to pass it behind and then

in the middle of our two needles we're creating an increase so we're going to

knit the next stitch and that yarn over right there creates our increase so

where we had two stitches now we are increasing toward

the right on row 1 here and we finish off knitting all the way to the end in

this case there's only one knit stitch to go now Row 2 is very simple we are

just knitting all of those stitches and this is on the wrong side of our work

Row 3 we're going to knit all the way until we just have one last stitch

remaining so K of course it means knit and we are going to knit all the way

down our row right here on row 3 until we have one last stitch there on our

left needle so now we're going to yarn over that's bringing that working yarn

around to the front to create our increase and then we finish up by knit 1

we take that yarn around we create our increase with the yarn over and now we

are increasing slanting on the left side of our little triangle and of course row

4 very simple it is simply knitting all of those stitches there on the back side

the wrong side of your work and here's how it's looking after those 4 rows

let's do that repeat again so Row 1 we knit 1 we aren't over and then we are

knitting all the way to the end row 2 we are knitting all of our

stitches all the way down the row and then on row 3 we are knitting all the

way to the last stitch so I'm knitting all the way down until there's one last

stitch there on the Left we yarn over knit one stitch

there's our increase on row 3 and then we just finish up row 4 by knitting all

stitches and that's all there is to it now if you're using a solid yarn you

just repeat all 4 rows if you're going to do stripes let me just show you how

to do that the pattern is exactly the same I am going to add

my yarn color right there on knit one bringing it around yarn over and then

we're going to knit to the end row two we're just knitting all stitches we get

to row 3 and we're knitting all the way to that last stitch there and then we

are yarning over and we are going to knit one and then finishing it up our

series of four rows row four is just knit all stitches and either as you go

or at the end you will need to weave in your yarn ends especially if you're

changing yarn colors you'll have a lot of different little yarn ends that

you'll want to weave in and you'll do that on the wrong side of your work and

then just cut off that yarn and keep on going

and here's how our triangle pennant is knitting up you'll see that for me I

decided to change on colors every eight rows and I'm knitting it up there's six

little stripes there I'm going to bind it off after I do 24 rows and the

stretchy bind-off it's really simple you start by knitting two stitches together

and then the stitch that you created on your right needle you're going to slip

it over to your left needle and you'll see the instructions are written between

asterisks because we just repeat this so now again we are going to knit these two

stitches together and then once they're knit together that one stitch on the

right needle you just slip it to the left needle and keep repeating this

pattern all the way down the row for your stretchy bind-off and at the end

here we're just going to do it one more time it is knitting two stitches

together and then just slipping one stitch to the left needle and then we

get to break our yarn just cutting it right here and with our tapestry needle

we are going to weave in our ends and that's how you do the

stretchy bind-off I think it looks really great once you've knitted up the

number of triangles for your pennant banner that you'd like it's time to

attach them you can get really creative I am using some ribbon for mine for a

little extra patriotic Flair and then on the ends I'm just going to attach some

yarn I think twine would also look really good

you can totally attach your little triangles however you would like I hope

you are inspired to knit up this pennant banner as well check out my entire

fourth of July ideas as well as my summer knitting series and I will see

you next time, Guys.

BYE!