patent it the caterpillar stitch English style for this tutorial you will need a pair of knitting needles special thanks to our sponsors cassell for providing today's needles today we are using their Adi lace interchangeable clicks in the size eight and a ball of yarn special thanks to our sponsor knit out-of-the-box for providing today's yarn today we are using their 100% merino Lambs full line in the color purple' for this stitch you'll need to know the following techniques knit purl to begin this stitch you must cast on in multiples of eight plus six row one beginning on the right side of our work we are going to knit four then we're going to purl two then we're going to start our repeat by knitting six and we're gonna finish our repeat by purling two so we're gonna continue knitting six and purling two until the end of the row row two we're going to begin by purling one then we're going to knit two and we're going to start our repeat by purling six and we'll finish up our repeat by knitting two so we're gonna repeat the purl 6 and knit two until we reach the last three stitches in our row and when you've reached the last three stitches in our row we're going to purl three row three we're going to begin by knitting two then we're going to purl two then we're going to start our repeat by knitting six and we'll finish our repeat by purling two so we're going to continue repeating the sequence until we reach the last two stitches in our row and when we reach the last two stitches in our row we're just going to knit to row four we're going to begin by purling three then we're going to knit two and we'll start our repeat by purling six and we'll finish our repeat by knitting - so we'll continue repeating this purl 6 and knit 2 until we reach the last stitch in our row and when we reach the last stitch in our row we're going to purl 1 row 5 we're going to begin by purling 2 they're going to start our repeat by knitting 6 and then we will finish our repeat by purling two so we're going to repeat the sequence until we reach the last four stitches in our row and when we reach the last 4 stitches we're going to knit 4 rows 6 we are going to purl all stitches so repeat rows 1 through 6 until you've reached your desired length and that's how you knit the caterpillar stitch what mourners do today check out our website at news to today.com