#Knitting duplicate stitch how to#

There are two ways to make the duplicate stitch: Over ‘A’-oriented stitches or ‘V’-oriented stitches (that is, regardless of whether you’ve worked your project top-down or bottom-up). Duplicate stitches in ‘A’- or ‘V’-oriented stitches 👆 Working duplicate stitches is a lot faster if you go straight to the starting point of the next stitch as shown above. That way, you will go straight to the starting point of your next stitch 😉 If you want to avoid pulling the yarn through your work more times than is strictly necessary, you can work your needle through the left leg of the stitch you’re working on, and then through the right leg of the next stitch. Tip: Go straight to the start of your next stitch Continue working like this until you’ve finished your motif.Once again, insert the needle into the bottom of the stitch at the point of the ‘V’, so that you end up at the back of your work again.Next, work your needle through the ‘legs’ of the stitch above.Work your needle from the back of your work to the front through the bottom of the stitch (the point of the ‘V’).You may have a pattern with a diagram that you can follow. Now, find the part of your project that you want to sew your first duplicate stitches onto. Start by cutting a length of yarn in the appropriate length and thread it onto your needle. You get the best results if you make your duplicate stitches in the same yarn as what you used to knit your project. A wool needle or a tapestry/darning needle.

#Knitting duplicate stitch how to#

Let’s take a look at how to do the duplicate stitch! Perfect, if you want to add that extra final touch to your project!ĭuplicate stitch is also a super simple and useful technique. The stitches are embroidered onto your finished project and can be used to add pretty details. This technique makes it look like the duplicate stitches are part of your knitting. In this blog post, I will be your guide and help you get started on your exciting duplicate stitch journey.ĭuplicate stitch is a technique where you embroider new stitches over stockinette stitch. Heather Zoppetti lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and yarn collection.When working on a detailed design, it makes perfect sense to use duplicate stitches on top of your knitting. Have you tried using duplicate stitch to fix your colorwork mistakes? How else have you used duplicate stitch? Repeat these steps across the area you are working (Figure 1). Begin at lowest point and work as for horizontal duplicate stitch, but end by bringing the needle back out at the base of the stitch directly above the stitch just worked. Vertical duplicate stitch is worked in a similar fashion. You can work duplicate stitch either horizontally, like I did with the Flurries Cowl, or vertically. Repeat for as many stitches as you need to fix (Photo 6). If you’re fixing multiple stitches, bring the needle back out at the base of the V of the next stitch to the left to begin the next duplicate stitch. Step 3: Take the needle back into the fabric at the same place it entered, completing the stitch (Photos 4 and 5). Step 2: Trace the stitch by taking the tapestry needle behind both legs of the stitch above (Photo 3). From the back of the fabric, bring the needle up into the bottom of the stitch to be fixed (Photo 2). Step 1: Thread the correct color yarn onto the tapestry needle. I’ll show you how to use duplicate stitch to fix this square (Photo 1). Here are the actual errors in my Flurries Cowl as you can see, I made several. However, instead of using knitting needles, you’ll use a tapestry needle threaded with the correct color to trace over the stitches of the wrong color to correct them. The technique is called duplicate stitch because you will be duplicating stitches that you have already knitted.

This technique is especially helpful for small bits of color that are not worked all over, such as words, faces on dolls, and little-used third colors in Fair Isle patterns. You can also use duplicate stitch to add colorwork after knitting when you do not want to use stranding while you’re knitting. Let me show you how you, too, can use this magic technique to fix errors in your stranded colorwork. I wanted to fix them before I sent in the sample, of course, but I did not have time to rip back to the beginning. While I was finishing up knitting the Flurries Cowl for knitscene, I noticed that I had made some mistakes in the stranded colorwork way back at the beginning.