go behind the two legs of the stitch directly (or rather one row) above or below that stitch, then 3. Note: Whenever your thread comes out of a stitch (balloon or teardrop) it will eventually go back in that same stitch, after going behind the legs of the stitch directly above or below it. To begin the process again, go back to step 3. Step 6: Go down diagonally into the center of the balloon one stitch below the balloon you went behind in step 5. ![]() We are going to create a row of duplicate stitch between them. Here are two rows of knitting, Green and Blue. Now for a step by step virtual duplicate stitch. Looking at just the “V’s” now, see if you can trace the path of each row. ![]() Note that the yellow Balloons are wrapping around the bottom of the White Balloons and the yellow Teardrops are coming through the middle of the white Teardrops.Īlternately, white Balloons are coming through the top of the yellow Balloons and the white Teardrops are wrapping around top of the yellow Teardrops. Have a look at how the Balloons and Teardrops from one row interact with those from another. They’re happy tears.) I call the sides of the Balloons and Teardrops “legs”. The part of the stitch that curves up and interlocks with the row above is now called a “Balloon”, and the part that curves down and interlocks with the row below is now called a “Teardrop” (Is that too sad? Oh well. For the sake of this and the next tutorial, I am going to come up with cutesy names for the different, salient parts of the row. The yellow above shows the path that the yarn takes on any given row. Someday I will learn how to use InDesign and Photoshop, and then everything I do will be pretty!) (Sorry about the crudeness of the pictures. Anyone who has tried to pick up an entire row of stitches that has fallen off the needle knows that what you do to one stitch has a very real effect on the stitch next to it. Do you see the “V’s”?ĭoes that help? Now, it turns out that, when trying to think of a row as an interconnected unit (which we are trying to do), the idea of “V’s” can be a little misleading. Often, when I am talking to people about their stitches, I will refer to columns and rows of “V’s”. I promise that it will make the following tutorial on sock mending much easier to follow. I want to help you better understand just what your yarn is doing (and establish some shared terminology that I can use later on). The path that your yarn takes as it travels through the row, the way it interacts with stitches from other rows, the relationship between a single stitch and the stitches around it these can all be better understood by learning about duplicate stitch. On a more abstract level, practicing duplicate stitch is a wonderful way (it’s in italics because I feel very strongly about it) to learn more about the structure of your knitting. Closing up holes that occurred due to dropped stitches (once the stitches have been picked up, of course), unintentionally made stitches, stretched out stitches, etc. This is a totally invisible, very secure (if somewhat fussy) way to weave in ends, and I know many brilliant knitters who use it to great advantage.Ĥ. ![]() Reinforcing threadbare stitches to prevent the formation of holes (usually done in the same color).ģ. Creating designs on finished knitting by “drawing on” stitches of a different color.Ģ. It is an extremely handy technique for any of the following:ġ. Here is a quick, but hopefully thorough enough lesson in Duplicate stitch.ĭuplicate stitch is the process of recreating or tracing the line of a stitch on top of an existing stitch, usually using a different color of yarn. When I say things like “Anchor your yarn by duplicate stitching in the last two complete stitches of the row”, there are those out there who will go “Huh?!”. Actually, I was about halfway through constructing said tutorial, when it occurred to me that not everyone out there is working from the same basis of knowledge. Well, I know I promised that my next post would be a “tutorial” on mending holes in socks, but it turns out that I lied.
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