Working Two Sides at Same Time? Huh?

#1

I’m having trouble understanding a pattern from the book 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders. The pattern is titled Taos Slippers on page 126-127. I’m confused at the section entitled Divide for Foot Opening. This is part of knitting the uppers. So far I’ve cast on 12, knitting a row and purling a row and increasing using Kfb at beginning and ending of each knit row until I have 22 stitches.

Then the pattern reads:

With right side facing, K7. Join new yarn, bind off 8, K7. Working two sides at the same time, continue in stockinette stitch until piece measures 6.5" ending with a wrong side row.

I don’t know how to work two sides at the same time. So everything inside the ** is a mystery to me. Can anyone help me? Thanks!!

Missy

#2

You’re dividing the piece into 2 halves at this point for the foot opening.

Up until now, you’ve been working and forth the whole piece with one strand. Now you’re going to knit 7 stitches and drop that yarn.

Using another strand, you’ll bind off the center 8 stitches and finish the row.

Now you’ll have two strands–one on each half of the slit.

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Work across one half, drop that yarn and work across the other half with it’s yarn, leaving the gap in the middle.

#3

What Ingrid said.

And for future ref, you’ll come across this same term when working shoulders, necklines, etc on garments (when shaping is done with gap in the middle). It’s a frequently asked question.

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