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In my quest to try new and interesting knitting techniques, my next stop is double knitting.
Does double knitting have a significant effect on gauge? I feel like it should but also shouldnβt.
Also, does it tend to lay flat despite being stockingette?
Whatβs the one thing you wish someone had told you when you first did double knitting?
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The pattern for my sweater is stockinette for 5 rows and then a pattern row, so I made a row counter with things I had on hand
6 bulb pins and a few beads to mark 1, 3, and 5. It's tactile so I remember to advance it every row, and the beads make it easy to tell what row I'm on at a glance
Alright, I gotta ask, is it so weird to default to knitting your knits through the back loop and purling your purls through the front loop? Like I swear every time I watch a demo video for a stitch, or people are talking about the details on technique or something, the assumption is just that you're working through the front loop for everything by default and that the back loop is just for special occasions (to twist the stitches for a certain look I guess, but for me going through the front on my knits is what actually makes them twist)
Is this some non-standard knitting style I stumbled into in all my self-taught time, or have I just been doing it "wrong" for half a decade lol
TEN DAYS OF PROGRESS - KNIT METHOD COMPARISON
Coming to the end of our recuperative sojourn out in North Truro. I had hoped to post pix of the aurora from here, but sadly last night was heavily clouded, and windy. So I maintain my record of weather-related disappointment in relation to notable sky events. But that doesnβt mean that nothing has been accomplished in the past week and a half. Iβve been knitting, stitching, and working onβ¦
People were intrigued by doing sleeves two at a time on one needle (magic loop). There are MANY magic loop tutorials/videos that exist, so this is not a full tutorial, just progress pictures because I was picking up sleeves anyway.
You're going to want a longer circular needle for this - 32" ( I think, hard to measure after I've got the sleeves on it). You also need two balls of yarn (unless you work from the outside and inside of one ball of yarn like I do for socks but really I don't recommend following my example on that).
Step 1: Pick up the top of the sleeves. I started about 10 sts from the armpit. Do both sleeves. You're just sliding the stitches onto the needle (I keep my life line/waste yarn in when I do this).
Step 2: Push the work toward the other end of the needle so you leave a gap when you start to pick up the bottom part of the sleeve. You could join your yarn here if you want, but I like to make things difficult for myself and put the join at the underarm, so again, I am just slipping the stitches onto the needle until I get to the underarm. If you join the yarn earlier, go to step 3b
Step 3a: Use knit cast on for under arm stitches.
Step 3b: From this point on you need to knit the stitches onto the needle. This is much easier if you slip the stitches onto the other end of the needle. Don't worry about the stitches from the other sleeve yet because they'll all be transferred to the right needle. Knit until you have knit the remaining stitches from that sleeve
Step 4: take a breath, you've got one sleeve picked up! Now if you're not used to magic loop, you need to make sure when you move your work on the cable you don't pop out that loop (the purple cable sticking up in the above picture). If you did 3b, skip to 5b and use your second ball of yarn.
Step 5a: Slip the other sleeves stitches onto the cable until you get to the underarm, use knit cast on for your underarm stitches with your second ball of yarn.
Step 5b - pick up the other (left) needle, make another loop in the cable, and pick up the stitches that you will need to knit. All of the stitches are now on the needle. There is a loop of cable on the left, the needles meet for the left sleeve, then there is the right sleeve and another loop of cable. Each sleeve is joined to a different ball of yarn
Step 6 - knit the stitches on the left hand needle until both needle tips are on that side and there is still a loop on the right side of the work
Step 7: Flip it over, carefully pull out a loop of cable like you did in step 2, and keep knitting. Don't forget to change yarn strands when you get to the other sleeve.
I will typically put a stitch marker on the sleeve that I cast on first, just so I remember and don't make one sleeve a row longer than the other.
From this point, you'll knit the top of sleeve 1, top of sleeve 2, bottom of sleeve 2, bottom of sleeve 1, then repeat until you're done.
The benefit of this method is that if I do any patterning or changes or follow any whims (cables! Lace! Decreases! Colour changes!) I can do it on one sleeve and then immediately do it on the other. You will also continually work both sleeves - in order to skip one sleeve you'd have to start purling.
When it's time to cast off, you can put a stitch holder in the stitch from one sleeve while you work on casting off the other.
You do have to do some yarn management, but you get used to it and it's not so bad.
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Thinking back to when I was knitting all kinds of lace but would avoid cables like the plague because they were intimidating
which knitting technique were you most scared of/intimidated by?
sock heels
intarsia
double knitting
lace
cables
steeking
double knitting
fair isle
other
Even if you've done it, answer the one that stressed you out the most or that you intentionally avoided.
My mom asked for slippers, so I'm playing around with a new pattern just for fun.
Behold, a seemless heel cap
It's starting with a JMCO with an extra stitch and then knit in a U-shape, then increases for the sole (which is done in rib for extra cush)
It's got a nice comfortable shape
At the instep, it's joined in the round
And I'm not finished knitting yet. Yes, probably could have sized up the needles with this yarn, but mom goes through a lot of slippers and has tile floors, I'm hoping the dense knit is helpful.
Might end up writing an actual pattern for these, mostly because I hate the way a lot of slippers fall off my heel, and because I hate seaming. Once I close the toes on these they'll be done, no seams.
Learn three easy knitting cast offs that are perfect for the beginning knitter! Includes GIFs for easy visual reference.
