(The charts are on the blog as a pdf download.) I enjoy adding the letters to a completed. knit the number of stitches indicated in the chart with the new. I am offering the charts for both alphabets free on my Wordpress blog. To decorate the blocks of color with small details see Duplicate Stitch the next chapter. Weave in using a combination of duplicate stitch and weaving under the floats.Ĭut your tails with about a half inch of extra yarn so that when you pull on and wash your socks, the tails won’t pop out to the right side of the fabric. Having enjoyed designing the upper case alphabet for my Hearts Baby Blanket pattern, I went on to design the lower case alphabet. That way you’ll be able to keep everything a bit neater. Weave your embroidery yarn under the floats already there on the wrong side of the work. Follow Steps 3-6 for each stitch that you want to duplicate. Please don’t ask me where to purchase it, using a search engine should. You can find the patterns for these stockings in her booklet titled Jean Greenhowe’s Christmas Special. Crossed legs look a little funny and don’t pop as much. Go under one full stitch (two legs) in the row below the stitch you’re duplicating, and then bring the needle back out to the front. This image shows the alphabet stitched onto Christmas Stockings by Jean Greenhowe. If you’re working from right-to-left, keep it that way the whole time to avoid crossing the legs of your duplicate stitches. Or you can weave in horizontally or once again diagonally. You can either use duplicate stitch on the wrong side while ignoring the knit rows in between the purl rows. You weave in on the wrong side only, however. Todays post, first of a series, shows the how-to, as well as a few little tricks to overcome some common problems. It gets its name because the path of the embroidery yarn exactly follows-duplicates-the path of the underlying knitting. They should be a bit looser than the stitches underneath to really pop. In garter stitch, it works much the same as in stockinette. Duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery worked on a stockinette fabric.

If you pull too tightly, your duplicate stitches will disappear or be hard to see. I also love using duplicate stitch on the wrong side of the fabric to weave in my ends securely. If you like the short, text-only version, here are some tips:ĭuplicate stitch embroidery is just copying the stitches that are already in your knitting and embroidering over them. Count the number of stitches required to create your design within that area and mark the design center.

It also includes a bit about how I make little bobbins for all the colours in the Gauge Dye Works self-striping yarn. If you’re wondering how duplicate stitch works, here’s a video tutorial showing you how. My Saxe Point sock pattern has gotten a cheery little makeover for the holidays! I created a new motif for the sock pattern that fits in exactly the same dimensions as the original chart, so you can just swap them for a completely different look.Īs an optional bonus, the chart includes duplicate stitch embroidery to make your socks even more lively.

Knitting duplicate stitch numbers