Hi!
I’m a relatively new knitter, and I’m making a scarf for a friend.
I’d like to knit it using the stockinette stitch, but it curls quite badly (I’m a tight knitter). I also want it to be reversible, so I thought using a 1x1 rib would do it…
But then I also want to duplicate stitch this image (http://www.therailyards.ca/images/photos/bike_icon.gif) onto it. Is this possible? I’m hoping that one side can have the image, and the other side can just be plain.
Thanks in advance!
One thing you could do is to make it in the round in stockinette. Elizabeth Zimmerman has some instructions for a scarf done this way in her book Knitting Without Tears. (You can usually get that through the library.) It is on page 108.
Anyway if you did a scarf like that (you could also try a search for a tube scarf or something of the sort and maybe find a pattern), you could sew it across the ends. EZ talks about making each end like the giant toe of a sock, beginning with a temporary cast on and then pick up the stitches at the last and make the toe at the beginning. It would be easy to put your duplicate stitch on and the back side wouldn’t show because it would be inside. I have never actually done a duplicate stitch on a closed tube, you could do it but I’m not sure how working in the ends would be done when you are through. Hummm? (maybe you could bunch it up and do it before you close the tube)
If you do any sort of color work on a flat scarf the back side will not be able to be plain exactly, the back side of the colorwork will show sometimes on a scarf, but maybe that is not a problem. I don’t think you can do duplicate stitch on ribbing. I’ve never heard of doing it.
You could edge the scarf with a flat stitch like seed or garter and put a wide enough field of stockinette in the middle section to put your logo. Of course the back will show sometimes.
You could do two layers and sew them together or back it with cloth or fleece. Or the final idea I have is that you could do it with double knitting. I think it would be possible to do just the ends DK and the rest of the scarf one thickness, but again, I have never done it. Not a great beginner idea I think.
The easiest would be to do a stockinette middle field with a flat stitch on the sides and duplicate stitch it on and not worry about the back.
Options. There may be others.
OR–(building merigolds idea)
work 1 X 1 ribbing… then, for 10 to 20 rows, do this:
K1, bring yarn forward (as if to purl), slip 1, repeat this across the row
This is a fun thing to do… its simple double knitting…
what is will do is create a fabric that is 2 sided stocking knit…
it will look similar to the 1 by 1 ribbing… (and be about the same size as the 1 by 1 ribbing (unstretched) but it will be a 2 sided stocking knit “patch”
you could make 2 patches (each about 6 inches from the end of the scarf… or make patches ever 20 rows every 40 rows of ribbing. (as pattern) and only do the duplicate stitch on the end ones…
try a swatch, cast on 20, work 10 rows of ribbing,/5 rows of simple double knik, 10 rows of ribbing…
if you like the way it looks… you set…
(or you can think about something else… or
you can do duplicate stitch on ribbing and only work on the knits (and skip the purls) this will look okay–(you can do it on both sides of the work!) but the ribbing will totally lose its stretch where the duplicate stitches are.
Thanks very much for your replies!
MerigoldinWA: I considered doing a tube scarf, but realized I didn’t have enough yarn to go around twice… 
My LYS ran out. Thanks for the suggestion though!
of troy: I think I will try a swatch of 1x1 ribbing and DK. I never considered it, but it might work! Thank you! 
