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KNITTING WITH COLOR

DOUBLE KNITTING

A note about double knitting from Grannie Linda:

There is a great video of the double knitting technique by Amy Finlay

She gives a great heart-motif reversable hot pad pattern to try!

Loraine Whitford has developed BEEEAAUUTIFUL double knit afghan patterns! Grannie Linda has made TWO and they are wonderful!

I will include a few pictures here as to how I hold the yarn.

Happy Knitting!

Grannie Linda

A DOUBLE KNIT AFGHAN, BASED ON A LORAINE WHITFORD DESIGN, THAT GRANNIE LINDA JUST FINISHED!!!

I hold both strands at one time. This way I can knit the front color and, with a shift of my hand, immediately purl the opposite color!

Both strands go over my index finger, which remains straight and in the air for a tension gauge.

Sometimes I wrap one color, only, around my pinky (before it goes over my index finger) and the other strand around my two middle fingers, then over the index. It is a bit tricky to "thread" your hand, but it pays off by speeding up the double knitting process and managing yarn tangles!

With more practice I began to wrap only one strand around my pinky, then the other strand just around my two middle fingers, then both over the top of my index finger as shown!