Knitting -- another tradition?

Use your search engine with "knitting Andalusian stitch" and then in another tab or whatever, search for "double Andalusian stitch". When you have both of them, add "in the round". On one of the Youtube videos, the instructor lives in Spain, so maybe the stitch name is authentically Spanish. 

I used Sirdar Cashmere Merino Silk yarn in "Society Pink", a pale dusty rose. I used double Andalusian stitch to get this waffle pattern. I think it works best in DK or sport weight; fingering would mean a denser texture and with worsted, you have other texture styles like aran. 

It's a 3-stitch repeat in 4 rows. Working in the round, you knit rows 1, 2 and 4. Row 3 is K1 P2. Working in the flat, rows 2 and 4 are purled.

I cast on 240 stitches to size 4 circular needles with a 24 inch tether. At the underarms, I did seed stitch for 8 stitches and then bound off the middle 4 stitches, using the outside ones for a seed-stitch selvage for the armholes. 

I needed 7 balls to get 100 rounds below the armpits. The result is blocky; you probably want to do 110-120 rounds below the armpits and you should be able to get 110 with 7 balls, 120 if you're smaller than me and don't need more than 200 stitches per round.

I made matching socks, as usual, which took one ball per sock; I had to do 30 rounds in the cuff instead of the 40 in my pattern. 

Sirdar sells similar blends under different names with different sets of colors. In "Snuggly" baby yarn they have Piglet which is a pale peach, Prince Charming which is a French blue, and Snow Queen. Prince Charming should make a nice French type Jersey in stockinette with the horizontal stripes in Snow Queen. Work it as a bottom-up raglan with a wide boatneck; you'll need as many as 10 balls, 5 of each, depending on whether you make full-length or three-quarter sleeves. 

While we're talking Spanish knitting patterns, here's a modern mantilla made with traditional stitches:

https://knitty.com/ISSUEss12/FEATss12EK.php

And here's a lace edging pattern:

https://www.knitting-and.com/crafts-and-needlework/knitting/patterns/lace/spanish-lace/

Here's a transcribed pattern for an overall lace:

http://www.knittingfool.com/StitchIndex/StitchDetail.aspx?StitchID=816

Here it is used in a coverall:

https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/04/cotton-ajour-sweater-with-lace-effect.html#axzz2qAOzgXFt

This is by Mario (Men Who Knit)

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/faux-spanish-lace

The page 17 "Spanish Mantilla" here is just an Old Shale worked large. Some websites speculate that both Fair Isle and Shetland lace started with Spanish patterns derived from the Spanish Armada. Since traditional knitting patterns are handed down in the female line (except maybe for German socks), this would require not only that women were aboard the armada (yeah, Philip II put women aboard planning for his soldiers not to interbreed with British women), but also that they survived the wreck. Modern archaeology suggests the Armada survivors washed up on socially and environmentally inhospitable shores. Another myth shot down.

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/6-JA038Corticelli18.pdf

If you have some real traditional Spanish knitting patterns, including lace, send me a link to your blog.