TECHknitting

In lace knitting, markers and yarn-overs just don't play very nice together.

A recent e-mail asked how to deal with leading or trailing yarn-overs (YO's) when starting lace projects on double-pointed needles(dpn's).

Here is a beautiful grafted buttonhole for double thick fabric, such as a folded-over button-band.

Plain stockinette fabric can become double knitting by the process of "transformation."

Could you pretty-please stop cut-pasting my illustrations to the knitting subreddits?

In original concept, creating double knitting means working stitch-by-stitch to create a two-faced reversible fabric.

How do you like this double knitting side edge?

I'm supposed to be in the middle of a series about weird new ways of double-knitting, and there is more coming up.

In the middle of a storm, it's hard to remember, but ICE always melts, and there will be an afterwards.

In double knitting, words present a problem.

Here's a trick made possible by the four-needle method: combining double knitting with cables.

What's going on?

Double knitting three dimensional tubes (baffles) like on puffer jackets.Horizontal bafflesThe preview to this series on four-needle double knitting promised fabrics with tubes which could be stuffed, like a puffer jacket.

* * *Four-needle double knitting: what is it?

Dear human readers: today's post isn't really directed at you.

Today, a way to improve tension and more quickly knit the one-color backgrounds which are part of some double knitting projects.Fred-the-hatHere is a hat.

"Double Knitting" has two meanings.

Double knitting is the subject of the current TECHknitting series, and there will be more shortly.

Starting with this post, TECHknitting features a series on double knitting.

Easier stockinette grafting is one of the most popular articles on TECHknitting blog.

Happy April Fools!

Honeycomb cabled fabric is pretty to look at, but look out: worked in heavier yarn it can be a pain--literally.

Here are three items, not originally for knitters, repurposed as helpers. 1.

Double fold back steeks are a trick where all the prep work is done ahead of time.

Happy Valentine's day!

Banner knitting (subject of the last post) is a constellation of tricks for efficiently knitting words on a plain background.