I hope y’all don’t mind if I share a little brag. I have been wanting to learn 2 socks on one needle using double knit since I learned of it last year (described in this Knitty article).
I sat down with it once or twice before, but didn’t “get it”. Well, tonight I finally decided I was going to stick with it until I got it. I took two brightly contrasting colors of worsted weight yarn, size 4 DPNs, and went for it. I have read the article many times before, but tonight I really studied the instructions, and since I wasn’t trying to do it w/two balls of the same color sock weight yarn, I “got it”. I can knit and purl w/o crossing the streams (um, strands). I haven’t tried decreasing yet, but now that I get the concept, I think I will be able to do it.
I am so super excited! I have to thank the woman who wrote the Knitty article as well as Amy because I watched her video on double-knitting to help me better understand the concept (Amy’s video is a slightly different technique, but very helpful nonetheless!)
I spend most of my knitting time frogging or otherwise trying to fix mistakes, so it’s nice to have a success once in a while :happydance:
:woohoo: That is great!! I totally get the theory, I am just so not coordinated to do double knit. I’ve tried many times and have even taught people how to do it, I just can’t do it well myself. It would definitely slow me down!! Good for you, though!! That is fantastic! :notworthy: , :yay:, and :cheering: to you!
:cheering: I’ve tried it now… it wasn’t as difficult as I thought! For the first row I had to pick up and drop the yarn, but on the second row I tried that combined knitting, and it actually behaved!
Right Cia? It isn’t as hard as it seems! I think what helped me was reading a site about double knitting where it talked about getting into the rhythm.
I still need to go back and watch Amy’s continental video. I can knit fine, but can’t purl well at all. Makes purling that back strand very sloooowwww.
I don’t need any more socks, but I think I am going to make these mittenswith my newfound skill. I just happen to have the perfect yarn - some really thin cashmere that my mom’s friend found in sweater-form at a thrift shop.
Well acutally for me it’s the opposite, I’m a continental knitter, and I have troubles keeping the tension while purling. but you’re right it isn’t all that difficult once one gets in to the rhythm.
right now