I wanted to do this pattern,
and put the written instructions into a chart.
Now, I wonder, they say to knit across all odd rows. When doing double knitting, I would leave those rows away, is that so? I’m a little confused.
Chart it as the pattern says, all odd rows to be knitted.
when double knitting, its pretty common to knit/purl (a 1 X 1 ribbing in effect) to have a fabric that is Knit on both sides.
(and often the design element is fair isle/color work)
but its quite possible to do stitch designs.(but harder to chart)
your design is a raised garter stitch on a stocking knit background.
the ‘design’ is worked in purl --and this will effect how the design row is knit
in double knitting, the side of the work facing the knitter (side A) is always knit --the other side–(side B) is Purled.
to do a raised design, you work to PURLs on side A, and KNITS on side B. (that the tricky part… the design will require PURLS on side A, and KNITS on side B.–and how you hold and move the yarn is different… (you don’t move both yarns together, but will keep the apart… One yarn in front of work, the other in back)
and on the next row (the all knit row that is part 2 of the design, is the simple part… that row is worked in the simplest double knitting (K1, P1 across row) (the result–(a row of Knit on side A and side B)
I’ve done Knit and Purl double knit designs (you can see them on Raverly (i am oftroy) or find a link on my blog to my photogallery, (they are in the knitting album, recently–(page 3 or 4 or so)
Wow thank you for that explanation, but in fact the question was to convert that raised design on stocking to two color all knit design in double knitting…
I’ll just try, but anyway, thanks for that rather interesting explanation, I didn’t know such a thing was possible and might try it.
Oh, I didn’t understand that was what you were after.
Double the amount of cast on, or tie your side B into the cast on.
Where they say purl bring side B to the front and side A to the back.
You’re always knitting the side towards you and purling the side away from you. Where it says to purl you’d use side B yarn as your front color. Where it says knit you use side A as your front color.
So “row 10: k3 p11 k4 p2 k2 p13 k3” would be changed to K3A-P3B, K11B-P11B, K4A-P4B, K2B-P2A, K2A-P2B, K13B-P13A, K3A-P3B.
For you, “Knit across on all odd” it is your “wrong side” with B in the front so you’d just have to wing that side and do what the color pattern needs as you go along.
how much double knitting have you done?
and have you done charted designs?
Your design is cute (i am not an animal lover so i would never do it) --but the design is one that works best in knits and purls…
could you change it to illusion knitting? likely
could you change it to a fair isle (color work) knitting… maybe.
but in color work, every row is worked in color…
I’d try swatching it… (don’t want to do the whole paw? do a swatch of one of the claw pads… )
see if it works–or if you’ll need to (likely) eliminate the “knit row” (and then the patterns is half the size… )
maybe you could rechart? you can’t just double it… (it will be too wide)
You could also swatch and make the purls color A, and the knits color B (and this would mean the plain knit rows wouldn’t be plain anymore… )
so you’d work color A in 'stocking knit" till the foot pad started… then [B]Knit in color B[/B], return to color A, after the foot pad motif–on [B]side A[/B]
turn work:
[B]side B[/B] work in stocking knit in color B till motif starts.
then [B]PURL on side B with color A[/B], (and Knit on side A with color B) --return to stocking knit after the motif
back ground is always stocking knit, and always color A on side A, color B on side B.
Motif is always Garter stitch, and opposite color of background.
First row of motife is KNIT (but in contrasting color)
Second row of motif is PURL (on side facing you as you work) (and knit (which will present as purls) on reverse side)
this would make the paw design both garter stitch and color!–
you’d have the raised effect, the chart would work, and you could incorporate color…
It would be a bit tricky… (you’d have to think about what stitch and what color…) but it would be very attractive to combine the 3 (color, texture and double knitting) techniques, in one item.
if you are new to double knitting, i have a tutorial and several simple (geometric) pattern idea’s on my blog.
the tutorial has 7(8?) parts including a You Tube cast on .
(there are several ways to cast on for double knitting… the video is just one.
find the links to the tutorial here