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:
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 purple
is the outside sock, the orange is the inside sock.
Photo came from here.
is 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