![]() So you go to the stitch ABOVE the stitch you are covering with your new yarn. Put needle through both “legs” of above stitch.Sorry! You can see the needle if you look closely! Pull up through the fabric. I made the mistake of using a tapestry needle the same color as my swatch. Pull through, under the selected “V” stitch (see how the knitting stitches are a bunch of “V”s – pull your yarn through the base).Leave a tail under the fabric that you will weave into like colors at the end.Thread a tapestry needle with a length of your contrast yarn (for this, I used an off white color). ![]() And stay tuned – this little swatch is turning into a fun little pattern in the next day or so! It’s really easy to embroider using “duplicate stitching”, and I am so happy to have learned this! I am posting this picture tutorial on how it is done. Heather Zoppetti lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and yarn collection.I love the look of Fair Isle knitting, and knitting with various colors. Often you have to count stitches in order to do this, and sometimes I just want to add some detail to my knitting without difficulty (I have a toddler that almost always interrupts me, so I really need mindless knitting projects-ha ha!). Have you tried using duplicate stitch to fix your colorwork mistakes? How else have you used duplicate stitch? Repeat these steps across the area you are working (Figure 1). Begin at lowest point and work as for horizontal duplicate stitch, but end by bringing the needle back out at the base of the stitch directly above the stitch just worked. Vertical duplicate stitch is worked in a similar fashion. You can work duplicate stitch either horizontally, like I did with the Flurries Cowl, or vertically. Repeat for as many stitches as you need to fix (Photo 6). If you’re fixing multiple stitches, bring the needle back out at the base of the V of the next stitch to the left to begin the next duplicate stitch. Step 3: Take the needle back into the fabric at the same place it entered, completing the stitch (Photos 4 and 5). Step 2: Trace the stitch by taking the tapestry needle behind both legs of the stitch above (Photo 3). From the back of the fabric, bring the needle up into the bottom of the stitch to be fixed (Photo 2). Step 1: Thread the correct color yarn onto the tapestry needle. I’ll show you how to use duplicate stitch to fix this square (Photo 1). ![]() Here are the actual errors in my Flurries Cowl as you can see, I made several. However, instead of using knitting needles, you’ll use a tapestry needle threaded with the correct color to trace over the stitches of the wrong color to correct them. The technique is called duplicate stitch because you will be duplicating stitches that you have already knitted. This technique is especially helpful for small bits of color that are not worked all over, such as words, faces on dolls, and little-used third colors in Fair Isle patterns. You can also use duplicate stitch to add colorwork after knitting when you do not want to use stranding while you’re knitting. Let me show you how you, too, can use this magic technique to fix errors in your stranded colorwork. I wanted to fix them before I sent in the sample, of course, but I did not have time to rip back to the beginning. While I was finishing up knitting the Flurries Cowl for knitscene, I noticed that I had made some mistakes in the stranded colorwork way back at the beginning. ✓ Want to learn exciting new techniques? Join thousands at the biggest fiber arts, bead and jewelry fest October 24-28th in Mesa, AZ with expert-led workshops, live demos, giveaways, and a marketplace full of one-of-a-kind vendors! Click here to learn more about Maker Festivals.
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