Doubleknitting Anleitung Englisch

Introduction to Double Knitting
Workshop Notes for the German Ravelry Meeting 2009 in Backnang
When a knitter uses the double knitting method, s/he creates a knitted piece which shows knitted stitches throughout on both sides of the piece. This means that there is no right side and wrong side. The knitted piece lies flat, it does not curl or undulate. is thicker and warmer. does not have any tension threads. Most often, the knitting technique is seen in pieces where the pattern is the same on the front and the back, but in the reverse colour combination:
Where a light-coloured stitch appears on the front, a dark-coloured stitch appears in the same place on the other side of the piece. This effect is created by double as many stitches being knitted per row than can be seen on the front:
Front
Back
Here you can see 10 stitches on one side as well as the edge stitches. However, there are 24 stitches on the needles, so in one row you work all of the stitches for the front and the back. When doing so, you always alternate between purling and knitting stitches: 2x edge stitches, then 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 1 purl, 1 knit, 2x edge stitches When no pattern is being knitted yet, all of the purl stitches on the front are worked with brown yarn, and all of the knit stitches with light blue. On the back, all of the purl stitches are worked with light blue yarn, and all of the knit stitches are worked with brown yarn. If you wanted now to knit a dot as a pattern The purl stitch is worked with the main colour and the knit stitch is worked with the contrast colour. In this design, one box represents 2 stitches: blue means: the purl stitch in brown yarn, the knit stitch in light blue yarn brown means: the purl stitch in light blue yarn, the knit stitch in brown yarn On the back, you have precisely the opposite:
with these stitches, you need to reverse the colour sequence:
You need to ensure that when working the purl stitch, the other yarn is in front of the stitch. When working the knit stitch, the other yarn must be behind the stitch.
Otherwise it looks like this: However, you can fix this easily: drop the blue stitch, put the brown yarn behind the stitch, pick up the blue stitch again
If you knit in rounds (socks, hats, mittens...), it is easier to follow a chart, because the main colour and the contrast colour do not alternate (as they do when knitting flat pieces). However, you often end up with a loop in front of the stitches, as shown above. For this reason, I recommend turning the knitting inside out every couple of rounds and inspecting this side thoroughly. Some instructions include charts showing the purl and the knit stitches:
Its really a matter of taste which notation you prefer...
The second kind of notation is more common in instructions where different patterns are knitted on the two sides. The knit stitches which are created in double knitting have a different set of proportions than you get with normal knitting: I usually get a ratio of 3:4 or 4:5, i.e. 3(4) stitches and 4(5) rows make a square. If you want to make decreases in double knitting, you need to bear in mind that decreasing has to be done to the purl stitches (for the back) and to the knit stitches. This is the way to rearrange the stitches on the needle: knit purl knit purl is rearranged to knit knit purl purl Now you can purl the two purl stitches together and knit the two knit stitches together. This is the way to accomplish a decrease. If you purl the two purl stitches together, then you SSK the corresponding two knit stitches. (SSK = Slip stitches knitwise one at a time, then slip the left needle through the two stitches and knit both together through the back loop) If you SSP the purl stitches together, then you knit the corresponding knit stitches together. (SSP = Slip stitches knitwise one at a time, then slip the left needle through the two stitches and purl both together through the back loop) You can also knit cables in the double knitting technique, but you would also need to rearrange the stitches to be cabled.
The best way of increasing is by creating a purl stitch from the yarn loop which runs along the back and creating a knit stitch from the yarn loop at the front. You can also make a round knitted piece:
For this purpose, in every second round one stitch is increased in eight places (really 16 stitches, of course, because 8 x one purl stitch and 8 x one knit stitch is being increased).
And now a brief word about different cast-on, cast-off and edge techniques:
Cast on: with both colours at the same time Edge: knit with both colours at the same time Cast off: knit the corresponding knit and purl stitches together with both colours at the same time
Cast on: all stitches with dark green yarn Edge: at the end of the row, purl/knit 2 edge stitches, slip at the beginning of the row, in each case with one colour Cast off: all stitches using dark green yarn
Cast on: each stitch alternating with another colour Edge: purl/knit + slip Cast off: purl purl stitches together and knit knit stitches together using dark green yarn
Cast on: I-cord, pick up and knit Cast on: provisional, the two the stitches from this layers are joined together later Edge: purl/knit/slip using backstitch Cast off: pick up and knit Edge: knit both stitches with (applied) I-cord one colour each Cast off: joined together using backstitch
Have fun trying this technique out!!
Trina, Thank you very much indeed for translating the German version
September 2009 ,
Birgit Enzinger
Phazelia@yahoo.de

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Introduction to Double Knitting

Workshop Notes for the German Ravelry Meeting 2009 in Backnang

with these stitches, you need to reverse the colour sequence:

Its really a matter of taste which notation you prefer...

Have fun trying this technique out!!

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