Irish Knots by Charles D. Gandy

Irish Knots

Knitting
February 2025
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in Irish Knot pattern with larger needles
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
219 yards (200 m)
One Size
English

During a recent review of Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, I found a stitch pattern incorporating an Irish knot. It is not a bobble and not a nupp. The Irish Knot is worked in one stitch and on one row by knitting and purling in the same stitch seven times, then binding off those new stitches to return to one stitch. Adapting this stitch pattern, I designed a hat incorporating non-traditional ribbing for the brim and vertically twisted columns to separate the undulating cables with their knots and seed stitch background, then topping with a cluster of Irish Knots.