Double knitting + working independent layersuseful trick for projects with lots of one color backgrounds

Today, a way to improve tension and more quickly knit the one-color backgrounds which are part of some double knitting projects.Fred-the-hatHere is a hat. I have named it Fred. Fred was knit as two hats, joined at the brim.Fred(geek note: see how the change in dye lot is positioned just where the brim will fold up? sneaky, no?)First I knit the blue part all the way from brim to top. Then, I