![]() ![]() I do like the look of the final result, although it wasn't without challenges… The back of the motif can be rather messy if you're working with several colours – it's an awful lot of yarn ends to have to weave into a small space when you think that you not only have to weave in the start of each piece of thread to anchor it, as well as the end. Here's my little sweater with its foxy motif: You can also create your own charts of course, there's a useful piece about that on 'Knitty'. I actually bought a little collection of charts for my motif, but you could easily use any other kind of free chart available on the internet, and I reckon cross stitch charts would be great for this too. The way it seems to be most commonly done though is to create a motif from a chart. It does seem to be a technique that lends itself to making it up as you go along too, as with this very simple but effective design on a child's cardigan: Or perhaps an all over pattern? This is actually called 'thrummed knitting' where you create the 'duplicate' stitch with wool roving, which makes for a very messy looking, but supremely warm wrong side (check out this free pattern):ĭuplicate stitch also looks great when used as an integral part of the design – especially if you choose a colour that really stands out from the background, as the Purl Bee have with this Friendly Fair Isle sweater (pattern link here): ![]() ![]() You can use it to make a simple decorative edging (there's a step by step at the source for this picture): Whilst I love the simple clean look of the mini boat neck sweater, it was just crying out for a little fun to be injected, so I thought it was a good time to learn Swiss darning or 'duplicate stitch', which involves stitching on the knit side of stockinette stitch (there's a piece over on Mollie Makes that explains all).įrom what I've gathered so far, duplicate stitch can be used in lots of different ways in knitting. Sometimes though, things are just too plain – like the little silver coloured baby jumper I made recently: I do knit and crochet with sparkly yarn too, but I wouldn't normally dream of embroidering a piece of knitwear. As a maker / designer, I'm not really big on embellishment unless we're talking Christmas, which I love to cover with sequins, beads and glitter at every opportunity. ![]()
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