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the process of double knitting socks mentioned in “war & peace”. this is the oldest historical mention of the method, hence why nowadays it’s known as ‘the war & peace method’, and it seems like the knowledge of how to do it was lost/forgotten until this article from 2006 that details it. it’s still not a very popular way of knitting socks due to its difficulty , but it’s fairly interesting in how it works.

every other stitch on the needles belongs to the inside sock and, as you go, you knit one stitch with one yarn and the next one with the other, so that the two projects share the same needles but aren’t actually connected to each other

then you can, in fact, magically pull out the second sock from inside the first