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A recent e-mail asked how to deal with leading or trailing yarn-overs (YO's) when starting lace projects on double-pointed needles(dpn's). The problem: a YO as the first or last stitch on a dpn wants to slip off, plus, the needles themselves want to slip out.I'm guessing others have these problems too.The YO's in this increase round follow a repeating pattern of *YO, K1. This means a YO has
Here is a beautiful grafted buttonhole for double thick fabric, such as a folded-over button-band. These are GORGEOUS buttonholes: blue-ribbon, state-fair stuff. But! They are very stretchy because grafting does not constrain the buttonhole in any way: structurally, grafting IS knitting. Rough handling will stretch these out. (For a good-looking buttonhole that can take a beating, use my&
Plain stockinette fabric can become double knitting by the process of "transformation."Today, that same trick makes color patterns.This scarf started as two rectangles, one purple, one green. It was transformed into double knitting by dropping columns, then latching them up again. The color patterns form by alternating the draw-up from front or back.In a previous post, this scarf displayed
Could you pretty-please stop cut-pasting my illustrations to the knitting subreddits? Not calling anyone out but the problem is...Even if you properly attribute the pic, AI's scrape Reddit all the time and AI's do not properly attribute.That puts my copyrighted pictures out there for reproduction without attribution or context. Next thing is, I could totally lose control of them and have my
In original concept, creating double knitting means working stitch-by-stitch to create a two-faced reversible fabric. At the end, each smooth stockinette face displays the same color-work design, but with colors reversed. You'd think a trick this slick couldn't be topped, but you'd be wrong. Here is a trick called "double knitting by transformation." In today's piece of knitting magic,
How do you like this double knitting side edge?Double knitting with Transformation Edging Click here for super-enlargementThis edge is made by "transforming" the default curl-on-curl edging introduced earlier (part 1 of edging). So, before you can have this kind of an edge, you have to start with that kind of edge.Default edging: curl-on-curlIn curl-on-curl edging, the three edge
I'm supposed to be in the middle of a series about weird new ways of double-knitting, and there is more coming up. But, until recently, the 'flu had hold of me. So, until my wits fully return, here is a fill-in post on a different and simpler subject, a quick and pretty way to bind off K1, P1 ribbing.A new KI, P1 ribbing bind-off (cast-off) for garments a: Outside, it's a tubular
In the middle of a storm, it's hard to remember, but ICE always melts, and there will be an afterwards. After the ICE melts, a garden appearsBees and their flowersAlpine (crevice) gardenWoodland pathVeggie garden ⬆and its produce⬇After the ICE melts, a garden. I have got the flu, but will return with knitting content shortly. --TK
In double knitting, words present a problem. However, a solution called "uncoupling" allows words to read correctly from both sides. Coupled (green arrows) vs. Uncoupled (blue arrows).In double knitting--whether by my new four-needle method, or by the classical alternating stitch method--each front stitch is ordinarily "coupled" to a back stitch of the opposite color. Each red is backed with
Here's a trick made possible by the four-needle method: combining double knitting with cables. And, that's not all! The cables are on tubes, called "baffles" which can be stuffed: think puffer jackets. Or, think potholders. Here's a 9-stripe cabled potholder featuring 7 stuffed baffles + 2 edge border-stripes (pattern follows). This is a potholder or trivetWider and longer, could be a
