![]() ![]() You can start see how the new decorative stitch mimics the stockinette below it. Step 3: Work the tapestry needle under the legs of the stitch above it and gently pull it through. All remaining work will be done from the front of the work. Step 2: Pull your yarn through to the front. I used a safety pin to mark where I want my duplicate stitches to begin, and that make it easy to find where I wanted to put them. Step 1: With a length of yarn threaded through the needle but not knotted , anchor your yarn at the back of the work by weaving it through existing stitches. That’s how you get knots in your work, guys. Pro tip: Keep the length of yarn you are working with long enough that you won’t need to keep cutting and weaving in new lengths, but not so long that it will become a tangled mess. It’s a great stitch for when you want to add a small detail (cute little flower at your sweater hem?) or in this case, tp completely transform a garment. I really like this stitch, and I’m very likely to use it again in future projects. What I failed to consider when I cast on was that my lighter weight yarn would mean an eternity sewing on vertical stripes. Nicky Eptstein’s jacket is written for an Aran weight yarn and I had a sufficient quantity and variety of DK weight yarn to do this project in. You knit horizontal stripes and add the vertical stripes when you are done, creating the plaid. ![]() The answer (at least in this scenario) is that you don’t knit plaid. I learned the duplicate stitch when I saw Nicky Epstein’s Highland Fling Plaid Jacket and realized that I very badly needed to learn how to knit plaids. Duplicate stitch (sometimes called Swiss Darning) is a decorative stitch worked directly on top of your stockinette stitches. The headline is something of a misleading one because you don’t actually knit duplicate stitches. ![]()
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