Miniature Smocking Stitch involves a three-step combination that’s incredibly easy and impactful: yarn over; knit 2; pass the yarn over, over! Here’s how…

In this video, the smocking stitches come one right after the next and are staggered from row to row. This variation of Miniature Smocking Stitch is called the Fish-Scale Pattern, and you can find it in Barbara G. Walkers’s book Charted Knitting Designs: A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns. You can also find the Fish-Scale Pattern animating our fantastically nubby Cozy Corners Crib Blanket. Give it a try!

Miniature Smocking Stitch | Purl Soho