Awesome!!!
I love learning new techniques. Last night I was poking around the class list for Stitches South (after reading Rebecca Danger's post about shipping off some monsters to the show) and I came across something interesting - a class on Double-knitting tubes. How awesome is that?? Sometimes I feel I-cord is the bane of my existence. I hate sliding the stitches around all the time, and I don't always have the correct size of dpn's.
Since I am not independently wealthy, and will not be attending Stitches South anytime soon, I went on a hunt. I couldn't find an article on just knitting tubes, but I found this tutorial on Knitty- Extreme knitting: 2 socks in 1. Here is a photo from the tutorial:
Humor me and pretend this is a real caption. The purple
is the outside sock, the orange is the inside sock.
Photo came from here.
Of course, having severe start-itis, I want to start right away. I am afraid I must exercise some self-discipline and finish something else first.
Still, I have to plan this out, right? I think that holding both yarns in my left hand just might be too fiddly, (I knit continental-style) so I think I may just have to learn to hold one yarn in my left hand and one in my right hand, as illustrated at 4:10 in this video. You can find the project that is being made in the video here. Of course, to do that, I have to learn how to knit English-style. You can find that video here- just scroll down to where it says English Method. I absolutely adore knittinghelp.com, which is where I found these videos.
Here's the plan:
Since I am not independently wealthy, and will not be attending Stitches South anytime soon, I went on a hunt. I couldn't find an article on just knitting tubes, but I found this tutorial on Knitty- Extreme knitting: 2 socks in 1. Here is a photo from the tutorial:
Humor me and pretend this is a real caption. The purpleis the outside sock, the orange is the inside sock.
Photo came from here.
Still, I have to plan this out, right? I think that holding both yarns in my left hand just might be too fiddly, (I knit continental-style) so I think I may just have to learn to hold one yarn in my left hand and one in my right hand, as illustrated at 4:10 in this video. You can find the project that is being made in the video here. Of course, to do that, I have to learn how to knit English-style. You can find that video here- just scroll down to where it says English Method. I absolutely adore knittinghelp.com, which is where I found these videos.
Here's the plan:
- Learn how to knit English style.
- Learn how to double-knit.
- Learn how to double knit a tube in the form of 2 socks one inside the other.
- Realize that my logic is royally screwed up and that, in the end, I'll only know how to knit 2 tubes, one in side of the other, and not just one tube.
- Buy some dpn's in the size that I need and just get over myself.
*sigh*
Edit:
Found it! It seems I should have looked just a little bit deeper, I found a tutorial on double-knitting tubes at Alwen's blog here and found a link to this group on her side bar.
Edit:
Found it! It seems I should have looked just a little bit deeper, I found a tutorial on double-knitting tubes at Alwen's blog here and found a link to this group on her side bar.
Labels: double knitting, english style, i-cord, knittinghelp.com, too smart for my own good
posted by Maryann at 5:07 PM
2 Comments:
Your results may vary, but the only problem I would have with knitting one sock inside the other like this with a yarn in each hand is that many people have a different tension when they knit english versus continental. I know that my continental knitting is much looser on the same needle compared to my english.
Thanks for the comment. I have another friend that had problems with a difference in gauge as well. It's a neat concept though!
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