![]() ![]() Now that you have stopped the hole from growing, you can add decorative elements around it (if you are using a contrasting color) or just stabilize a few of the other stitches around the hole to make sure your "patch" will stay in place.Ĭut your yarn ends and weave in and voila! No more hole! Here I've worked from right to left, but the orientation really shouldn't matter.ĭraw up this duplicate stitch and you've stopped the hole from "traveling" (or getting any bigger). Then as seen in the image above, find the loop above of the hole and run your needle through that stitch. Thread the needle and find the knit loop just below the hole (the one that threatens to unravel all the way down the work). Put the needle through this loop from the INSIDE of the work to the outside. Here I'll be using Super Saver Pale Yellow to make a duplicate stitch over a small hole in a hat made with Turqua. Below you can see the hole. On the other hand, if you want to create a fun design on your project, you can use a contrasting color and a fun duplicate stitch pattern. #DUPLICATE STITCH KNITTING PATCH#If you want the patch to blend in, make sure to use yarn that is as similar as possible to the original yarn used in your project. You will need a yarn needle and yarn of the same weight of your original project. The first technique will work well for a small hole (of a couple of stitches). Both techniques are a way of creating duplicate stitch over the offending hole. There are a lot of techniques that can be used to fix a hole in your hand knitting, but we're going to focus on the 2 techniques most related to knit stitches. ![]() It was used and loved but now you've found a hole! Never fear. I used some silk/merino to create a patch on a wool beanie.You worked on that project for hours. It is often used, at least in part, when making initials, adding a name, or other writing that might not fully adapt itself to knitting.Īs I wrote about darning I thought how cute it might be to make a patch on purpose. You can use duplicate stitch to add color anywhere. When darning there is usually a stitch or two done over the adjoining fabric to integrate the new with the old–essentially duplicate stitch, but usually in the same color. If you do notice that a stitch is wearing out it is much easier to darn with the remnants of a stitch still in place than to create a stitch in the space, so duplicate stitch not only repairs, but allows you to follow the trail of the original stitch for accuracy. I don’t know that anyone but sock knitters darn anymore. Adding duplicate stitch adds a layer of yarn, so it does become a texture as well as stiffening the fabric where it is used. Again, carrying a color only used occasionally is often more work than desired. Done on a diagonal it is easier to add the color in this way than to carry the yarn for that single stitch–which would have to be anchored later.ĭuplicate stitch is generally done for surface interest and to add color within an intarsia design. In argyle the duplicate stitch adds the “chicken feet” or individual stitches of a third color. To add a dash of color (argyle, in a larger pattern).There are multiple applications for duplicate stitch. It is done to hide and anchor an end, not to cover a stitch. ![]() But, I don’t have to cover all the bumps when I’m doing this. Often it is over a purl stitch, not a knit stitch. When doing that, the key is to make it not show on the front side. It is an excellent way to anchor a yarn tail. Most often I am duplicate stitching on the back of a piece to work the ends in. Not impossible, but more steps, completely not intuitive, and made me wonder if that is why it isn’t used. It wasn’t too long before I realized that is not as easy as doing a knit stitch. I began to wonder why we don’t duplicate stitch purls. #DUPLICATE STITCH KNITTING HOW TO#This lead me to updating my duplicate stitch technique page, and thinking a little more deeply about the how to duplicate stitch. Like all things we don’t do often, a little practice was needed. It isn’t that I didn’t know how to duplicate stitch, it is that I usually am not doing it on the front of a piece in contrasting yarn. I had to refresh how to duplicate stitch last week when I was adding it to the ears of one of my Go High Missoni hats. Inside Scoop Subscribe & Newsletter Archives.2021-2022 Workshops With Jill Wolcott Knits. ![]() Pattern Difficulty Levels / Type of Knitting.Sizing Tables / Charts / Guidelines & Croquis.Why Jill Wolcott Knits Patterns are Expensive. ![]()
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