Double Knitting. Double knitting is the exception to many knitting rules.
You can double knit a stockinette scarf, and it will lay flat instead of curling. Color knitting will be reversible, showing a negative of the image on the back of the work instead of floats. How is this possible? Double knitting produces a fabric with the right sides showing on both sides of the work. This technique is fun to do and produces a thick fabric that is ideal for winter accessories, hot pads, and there are even patterns for double knit sweaters! Cast on Cast on with double the number of stitches The cabled cast on is great for double knitting because it creates a flexible edge.
Cast on with yarn held double You could also use the cast on of your choice, but with the yarn held double. How to Double Knit Single color double knitting instructions Double knitting with one color in the front and one color in the back Bring both yarns to the front and purl the next stitch with only the contrast color. Knitting Bust Darts. Knitting Bust Darts with short rows and vertical darts allows custom contour shaping in hand knit garments.
We all have unique concave and convex contours all over our bodies. Some are more prominent than others, and we may want to custom tailor different areas of our hand knits to accommodate them in a stylish manner. These darts transform a garment which is uniformly as wide overall as our widest measurement to a garment which is based upon our narrow shoulders or the measurement across our back at the base of the armholes.
With the addition of volume in only those areas where it is needed, we then produce a slimmer, more shapely silhouette. While short rows and vertical darts may be used for a wide variety of shapings, I will focus on the bust in all of my examples. Short Rows are a vertical method of adding volume to select areas of the knitted surface. In the photos below, 3 inches of short rows have been inserted into the left front of a jacket. Method Two: 1. Method One: T-Shirt "Yarn" I know what you’re thinking–you’re thinking, “t-shirt what?”
You heard me. I said, T-shirt yarn. Get a load of this… Oh, yeah…it’s cotton “yarn” made from a spiral cut T-shirt. I first saw this done over at Polka Dot Pineapple and was intrigued because, well… does everyone on earth have a huge pile of orphan T-shirts that nobody wears, but they can’t seem to part with… or is it just me? So let’s get real green and do something useful with some of them…shall we?
Start with a regular t-shirt that has lived a good life…no guilt now. Cut off the bottom hem. Now cut the top off just under the sleeves… so you have a tube of fabric. Fold it nearly in half, leaving the under side sticking out about an inch. Now cut from right to left all the way up to and just past the top fabric, but leave the one inch margin of the lower fabric uncut. It should look like this. If you need more instructions click HERE for a sweet little diagram and bag pattern. but that color is too…too…orange not to be used properly.
Tubular Cast On. This cast on leaves a nice, stretchy edge.
It is specific to k1, p1 ribbing. Begin with a length of waste yarn. Cast on half of the total number of stitches you need. (If you need an odd number of stitches, cast on half + 1 stitch.) Cut the waste yarn, leaving a 6 inch tail. Change to the working yarn and complete the first row as follows: *Knit 1, yarn over. Complete the second row as follows: *yarn forward, slip one stitch purlwise, yarn back, knit 1. Complete the third row as follows: *Knit 1, yarn forward, slip one stitch purlwise, yarn back. Repeat the second and third rows. Change to K1, P1 ribbing. Knitting Tutorials. [ Close Privacy Policy ] Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights Revised and posted as of March 4, 2013 Prime Publishing, LLC ("Company," "we" or "us") reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically.
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